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On this release, Hungarian saxophonist Gábor Bolla is joined at the piano by Robert Lakatos, Bolla's alter ego and musical soulmate. Find Your Way is an impressively expansive and yet cohesive musical journey from Bolla and his quartet, completed by Swiss jazz stylist Heiri Känzig on bass, world class drummer Jojo Mayer and guest violinist Lajos Sārközi. Displaying influences including Bartók, Monk, Rollins and Coltrane, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Stevie Wonder and Django Reinhardt, the album also showcases Bolla's search for new sounds and for a musical identity of his own.

Il a traversé le monde de la musique comme un météore, un flambeur. Excessif en tout, il a brûlé sa vie par tous les bouts. Son éternelle cigarette à la bouche symbolisait parfaitement le feu qui habitait cet homme passionné par le jazz et par le monde interlope de la nuit. Né en 1924 à Francfort, d’un père français et d’une mère alsacienne follement romanesque, puis balloté de ville en ville durant son enfance et son adolescence, ce grand sensible était un écorché vif, un romantique à l’humeur fantasque et souvent imprévisible. Admirateur d’Arthur Rimbaud et d’André Breton, il en avait aussi les fulgurances.

This album brings together Kodály’s complete organ music with the world premiere recording of Erno Dohnányi’s only piece for organ, the eloquent Fantasie. Sokola’s intense and compelling Passacaglia holds a special place in the organ repertoire, Wiedermann’s Pastorale dorico was composed during the dark days of the Second World War, and Novák’s attractive Prelude is a study in subdued tonal contrasts. Zoltán Kodály’s organ works have a distinct musical language unlike any other composer, with the imposing Organoedia ad missam lectam being amongst his most important non-choral works from the post-war era, and Epigrams, originally for voice and piano, heard here in a transcription by Gábor Trajtler.

This album brings together Kodály’s complete organ music with the world premiere recording of Erno Dohnányi’s only piece for organ, the eloquent Fantasie. Sokola’s intense and compelling Passacaglia holds a special place in the organ repertoire, Wiedermann’s Pastorale dorico was composed during the dark days of the Second World War, and Novák’s attractive Prelude is a study in subdued tonal contrasts. Zoltán Kodály’s organ works have a distinct musical language unlike any other composer, with the imposing Organoedia ad missam lectam being amongst his most important non-choral works from the post-war era, and Epigrams, originally for voice and piano, heard here in a transcription by Gábor Trajtler.

This album brings together Kodály’s complete organ music with the world premiere recording of Erno Dohnányi’s only piece for organ, the eloquent Fantasie. Sokola’s intense and compelling Passacaglia holds a special place in the organ repertoire, Wiedermann’s Pastorale dorico was composed during the dark days of the Second World War, and Novák’s attractive Prelude is a study in subdued tonal contrasts. Zoltán Kodály’s organ works have a distinct musical language unlike any other composer, with the imposing Organoedia ad missam lectam being amongst his most important non-choral works from the post-war era, and Epigrams, originally for voice and piano, heard here in a transcription by Gábor Trajtler.