It's been quite awhile, since I updated my news section and a lot of things had happened since. I have recorded several CDs, which you can find at the discography section and I've been touring almost constantly, mostly with Lionel Loueke and my own band.
Last year I had the plesure once again to play with Herbie Hancock at the Carnegie Hall as part o the JVC Jazz Festival in New York.
I also became an official endorser of DW-drums and Zildjian Cymbals! Below is a picture from the Zildjian Factory;
I had a great article at the italian magazin Jazzit, and with Marco Valente's collaboration, my cd was included in the magazin's december issue. You can check his websites at www.jazzos.com, or www.jazzengine.com
Here is the article;
Thanks you for your continuos support and staying with me!
Ferike
Lionel Loueke's new CD "Karibu" is in the stores now!
The CD features Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Massimo Biolcati,
Ferenc Nemeth and it came out on the Blue Note Label.
Just announced!
My CD was choosen to be among the final 5 at the
7th Annual Independent Music Awards
in the Jazz, Album category!
Please show your appreciation and vote
by clicking HERE
I was also awarded the prestigious,
2007 Gramofon Hungarian Jazz Award!
You can read about it HERE
After many months and weeks of hard work, finally my debut CD (Night Songs) as a leader came out on Dreamer's Collective Records. Now it is available in all the major internet stores and of course it is available in digital format on such places like, iTunes, eMusic, and Digstation. You can also order it straight from me and you will have a signature on it too!
Recently my CD
was reviewed by Mark F. Turner in All About Jazz. You can find the article here; http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=26191
I was also featured in the July issue of the Italian magazin called JazzColours (below) and wanted to share with you the artcle! You can find out more about it at www.jazzcolours.it
My summer was quite busy. I started to tour in April with Kate McGarry, than Omer Avital's quintet, than I had a tour with my Band in Europe with Bob Sheppard, Omer Avital and Russell Ferrante, than continued with the Lionel Loueke Trio. We still have a few dates in the west coast with him, and after that we are going to the studio to record Lionel's debut CD on the Blue Note label!
Enjoy the rest of the summer and please keep supporting live music!
Ferike
My recording will be available worldwide on iTunes from May 8th and the official release in the U.S. is going to be June 26th. I am also going to Europe to promote the CD and the band will feauture Bob Sheppard on sax, Russell Ferrante on piano and Omer Avital on bass. We will have a live DVD recording in the Down Town Theatre in Budapest/Hungary as well. I am very excited about going on the road with this band! This month I will also be in Europe with the great singer, Kate McGarry and with Keith Ganz on guitar. In the middle of april I am going to be touring with the Omer Avital Quintet in Italy, (check out my schedule forr exact dates and places) which I am very much looking forward to!
Lionel Loueke's new recording Virgin Forest is now available worldwide. The recording features original music by Lionel featuring special guests Herbie Hancock, Cyro Baptista, Gretchen Parlato and Gregoire Maret in addition to his longtime rhythm section Massimo Biolcati on bass and Ferenc Nemeth on drums.
Ferike
Happy new year to everyone! As you can see, I
am updating my website again, and here are some of the greatest news that I
have so far! Finally, I recorded my CD with a great band, who you can see at
the picture above. From L-R, Michael Brorby, Your's truly, Aaron
Parks, Chris Cheek, Mark Turner, John Patitucci and Lionel Loueke! I recorded
my CD at the end of November and right now I am at the mixing process. Hopefully
soon will be out. It feauters 8 original compositions of mine and 1 arrangement
of Wayne Shorter's ESP. Since the last update of my website, many things happened.
I continued to play with Chris Cheek's band, and slowly we started to have
more and more gigs with GILFEMA. I had a tour in Italy in december with Lorenzo
Conte and Michele Calgaro, than in february I had a tour in Luxembourg with
the Greg Lamy Quartet. Now, I am planning to record a duo CD with the great
saxophone player Javier Vercher and I've been playing a couple of gigs with
my own band in New York and at the end of april, we are going to Europe for
a short tour. Also, the Francisco Pais CD is now available at the stores and
on the Feshsound-Newtalent label's website. Well, I promise that this year
I will update my website more often and let you know when I am playing near
You! Keep it Cosmic, Love and Peace.....
Ferike
I'm pleased to announce that our first record (with Lionel Loueke on guitar and Massimo Biolcati on bass) has been released on the iTunes Music Store. The name of the band and the title of the CD is simply, GilFeMa and it is an Obliqsound product! It will be in major record stores from October 4th!
Recently I had the pleasure to record with Ann Hampton Callaway for her anthem in honor of the survivors of Hurricane Katrina. Click here to listen to "Let the Saints Come Marching".
Ferike
Welcome to my updated news section! The last few months went by so fast, I did not even realise how long was the last time since I updated my news. In the middle of February, I did some concerts and Masterclasses with Victor Prieto in Earie/PA, which was a lot of fun, except the fact that it was soooo cold! Victor is an amazing accordion player, and hopefully we will play together more often. After that I played some gigs with Chris Cheek's band, with Chris Higgins on bass and Steve Cardenas on Guitar. We played tunes mostly from "Vine", (Chris's CD on FreshSound) and it was a really pleasure for me to play with those guys! We had some gigs here in NY with Lionel Loueke's Trio, (Massimo Biolcati on bass) and In the end of March we finally started our tour with GilFeMa. It was only two weeks, mostly in Hungary and Austria, but we had an amazing time there! It was great to hear Massimo and Lionel, bringing always new ideas to the band stage, day after day!
Ferike
Welcome back everyone! Thanks for keep checking my web site and for the beautiful emails and messages! Thanks for all of you who are continuing following my career, and not to mention to thank for my family and loved ones (you know who you are) who keep supporting me with their Love (I guess I have a new one..)! The past year went very well and very fast too! Many concerts, recordings and meeting with amazing musicians here in New York and all over the world! At the end of the year, I went on Tour with the Igor Lumpert Q., we recorded Francisco Pais's CD, (with Massimo Biolcati-bass, Leo Genovese-piano, and Chris Cheek-sax), and recorded some tracks for Tama Waipara's new CD! For more info about gigs and stuff, click on my schedule. I started the new year with Lorenzo Conte's Tour in Italy and finally I am back in NY! Soon our CD with GILFEMA is coming out, and I am very excited about it. (Our first Tour is going to start at the end of March.) Hopefully this year is going to be busy as well, and I am looking forward to it with a new energy! I wish everyone a productive and happy new year!
Ferike
Welcome! It is time for an update again! By the time I noticed, the summer was gone. The Tour with the Eli Degibri Q. went very well and hopefully we will have some more gigs in the future. I want to thank for Eli, Ben and Cumo for their amazing playing! The last couple of months, I played some more gigs with Ron McCLure, the Dave Samuels Q., Olah Kalman Trio with Tony Lakatos, Dave Friedman and a few weeks ago I had a chance to play with one of my favorite trumpet player, Kenny Wheeler! It was truly a pleasure to play with him. Finally we recorded with GilFeMa! Hopefully in a few months the recording will be out! I am very excited about it! Thanks for Michele@Obliq Sound!!! Another good news is that, recently in Hungary one of the news papers' (Magyar Hirlap) special edition came out with the title; "The 50 Most Succesfull Young Hungarians". Well... I was chosen to be one of them!
Ferike
Hi everyone! Time goes so fast in NY, I did not even realise that I haven't updated my site since a couple of months! I guess there is a lot I could tell about what happened in the last few months. First of, -beside I played some great gigs in NY-, I had a tour in Italy and some gigs in Slovenia in April. In Italy I played with Ciccio, Daniele, Luca LoBianco, Mauro Schiavoni, David Boato, Lorenzo Conte, Marcello Alluli, Glauco Venier..etc. Great musicians and very nice people too. I had a lot of fun there! In Slovenia I played with Igor Lumpert and that was a trip too!!! Right now I am in California/San Francisco, and just finished recording with Emmanuel Vaughan Lee, Albert Saenz, Erik Jekabson and Mark Turner! Wow, what a great week I had! It was really amazing working with these guys. At the end of the month it seems like I am going to Hungary, to play with the Eli Degibri Quartet! In one month I've got to play with these two amazing saxophonists! I also did a trio recording with Gianni Gebbia and Massimo Biolcati and hopefully this month we will finally record with GilFeMa!!! We also have a big concert coming up with Tama in the Central Park/NY. Check back for more news, later!
Ferike
Hi everyone! I am updating my website again! Check out my "LISTEN" section. Finally I put some new songs there, including one of my originals from a few years ago and an arrangement I did while I was at the Thelonious Monk Institute! You can find there song selections from some of the artists who I have worked with in the near past. I also updated my "PHOTO GALLERY" so you will find some never seen pictures of me! Since I came back from my winter tour I had the pleasure to work with some great musicians like Ron McClure, Rich Perry...etc. I continue working with Tama Waipara and at the end of the month I am going to Palermo/Sicily to play with Francesco Guaiana and Daniele Camarda!
Ferike
Happy Holidays for everyone! I am back in Hungary where I had a short Tour and CD release party with the Olah Kalman Trio (Egri Janos on Bass). Our CD came out a few days ago on MA-Recordings called Contrasts+Parallels. They are two really amazing Hungarian musicians and we had a lot of fun playing together! I also started to work in New York with a great singer called Tama Waipara! In the band my fellow musicians are included the great Daniele Camarda-bass and Fernando Isealla-piano(who I've been playing with since the last 5years now). We did some recordings right before I left and hopefully it will be out soon! I also made a recording with Daniele and Ciccio for our next CD! Another great recording where I participated was with Kristof Bacso (my very,very good friend also ex-roommate) where we recorded his original compositions with musicians like Massimo Biolcati-bass, Lionel Loueke-guitar and Albert Saenz on piano! You can hear and vote(please) on one of the songs on the Euroclub website! It was great to play and record with all these guys! I am very thankfull to all of them and also to those one who are supporting us!
Ferike
So, I am back again and updating my site! I have not had a chance to do it since I moved to New York. I moved here in the middle of Septmber and I have a great time now! I have met a lot of musicians and started to play around the city as well! If you check my Itinerary you will see who I am playing with and where! In October I had a great concert up in Boston (where I have not been since 2 years) with the Mason Brothers, Aaron Goldberg and Janek Gwizdala! I also had recently a gig with Sebastian Noelle and Chris Cheek! I had a lot of fun playing with these guys and seems like we have some more gigs coming up! I hope to see you on some of my gigs!
Ferike
After a couple of months I am updating my website again! Thanks for visiting it, and thanks for those of you who supporting my Guestbook! So... Since the last time I wrote some news, a lot of thing happened. First, we had an amazing week witih John Scofield! We played mostly his music and it was very exciting to play and hang out with him! After that we had a great week with Lewis Nash! What an inspiration! He is full of energy! A few weeks ago we had a chance to record in a studio with Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter and Terence Blanchard! Now, that was really something else! I am still shocked! That experience was something that I will remember for the rest of my life! They were just amazing! (which I already knew, but in the studio everything was 10 times more than I imagined.) Also, check out my Itinerary. I have some good concert coming up! Maybe I will see you there. Sooo.... I can't say anything after this!
Oh.. I am finally moving to New York!!! See you soon!
Ferike
Hi everyone! I am back in Los Angeles after a little traveling in Europe. I was playing in Italy and making a new CD with David Boato! Great trumpet player from Venice, check out his website! In the studio we played with Glauco Venier-piano and the legendary Ares Tavolazzi-bass. On some of the concerts we also played with Alessandro Fedrigo-bass and Alberto Malnati-bass. I also went to Palermo/Sicily and played with Francesco Guaiana and Daniele Camarda. We did not have a chance to play together since I moved out to the west coast! It was great to play with them again! Thanks guys! Since I got back we had a great week with Terence Blanchard and next week John Scofield is coming! We are very excited about it! The Herbie Hancock concert in Paris was amazing! Thanks for UNESCO (and of course the Monk Institute) to organize a nice concert there for us! I wish we could have stayed there longer! I started to play again with Charles Chemery so check out my Itinerary for upcoming gigs!
Ferike
Welcome to my updated website! As you noticed I changed things a little bit around. I am adding a new Photo Gallery where you will see some recent pictures about our trips and some photos with our guest artists. In a few days we are going to be in Paris where we play with Herbie Hancock!!! Amazing, isn't it? Last week Mark Turner was here and it was such a great experience! We played his and Kurt Rosenwinkel's music.....if you heard their tunes you can imagine how "easy" is to play it! I'll have some more news when I come back from France!
Ferike
Just a quick note about my updated listening section. There you will find some recordings that I did with Lionel and Massimo in May. Soon I will have more tunes, but for now that is enough! Also there is an article by Phil DiPietro about the recording I did with Francesco Guiana(Guit) and Daniele Camarda(Bass) called "NoJaz". The CD just came out a few months ago and hopefully we will have a CD release party as soon as Daniele come back to the States! Here in the Institute, we had a great week with Hal Crook and next week Christian McBride is coming!!! Check out my itinerary for more info!
Ferike
It seems like it was time to update my web-site! In the summer I was traveling quite a bit, so I could not really add anything to my news! Finally I am back in L.A. and it seems like I will stay here for a another couple of weeks. If you followed my Itinerary you probably know where I was. My first tour was in Portugal with the Francisco Cardoso Quintet. I had an amazing experience with this guys (Francisco Cardoso . guitar, Nathan Blehar . tenor, Albert Sanz . piano, Luques Curtis . bass). Check this guys out if you are around Boston or New York. Than I went to Hungary to visit my family and I was playing with some guys from Hungary as well. One of them is a piano player who just going to start Berklee in the Fall and he is amazing! His name is Arpad Olah (Cumo). My European tour ended with the Umbria Jazz Festival, where I played with the Monk Band. Amazing Festival, amazing people, amazing food........ We played there every night for two weeks. Charlie Haden, Pat Metheny, Reid Anderson and many other musicians came to our gigs and gave us some feedback. It was great to play with the Monk band after two months of break. Unfortunately Lionel could not come to Italy because of some Visa problem. Around that time also our CD came out with the Francesco Guaiana trio. In the end of July I played a great concert with the Jimmy Heath Quartet. It was Jimmy Heath on Tenor, Billy Childs on Piano and John Clayton on Bass. (Soon I will have pictures and some listening files as well). The summer tour finished with a festival in Santa Fe (New Mexico), where I played with the Monk band featuring Terence Blanchard and Dave Grusin. This week we have here at the Institute Hal Crook. He is and he always been a great teacher and a very good friend of mine. I will write more about our experience with at the end of this week!
Ferike
This week I had a little bit more time to update my web-site! I added some news to my Projects and Itinerary! My Biography now became more complete with a "Honors and Awards" section! Thank you for the respond on my Messageboard! If you have any comments about my site please let me know! At USC there was a Jazz Festival this week and I've been so inspired by all the great players who I get to see! (Sonny Rollins band, Peter Erskine trio, Ray Brown trio, Christian McBride band, and Wayne Shorter's band!) Thanks for all of you!
Lassan elkeszul a Magyar valtozata is a Honlapomnak! Meg egy kis kitartast kerek azoktol akik turelmetlenul varjak a valtozast!
We just had a great week with Terence Blanchard! Originally Branford Marsallis was suppose to come, but he canceled at the last minute. We were traveling a little bit the last couple of weeks. First in Seattle with the Monk Band, opening for Terence's Band. Than I was in San Francisco playing some gigs with my friend Emmanuel and a great singer Laurie Antonioli. In the mean time I attended and won the First Prize at the Charles (Dolo) Coker Scholarship Competition!
Welcome back! Those of you who did not see my new pictures, go ahead and check it out! I changed a little bit the front page and added a couple of things to my PROJECTS. Last week I had the pleasure to hang out with Herbie Hancock at his rehearsal. (Future2Future). It was really amazing! They are on tour now and they were rehearsing for 3 days.
My Messageboard is ready also, so you can add some comments/questions and you can use it as a forum if you will!
Ferike
As you can see I added some new menu options, and soon I will have a listening section as well as some new pictures in the photo gallery.
Udvozlok mindenkit az uj honlapomon! Itt megtalalhato lesz kulonbozo informacio rolam es a zenemrol. Hamarosan magyarul is megjelenik minden, addig is meg egy kis turelmet kerek! Koszonom!
Ferike
Welcome to my new website! Here you will find information about me and my music.
I will be updating the site constantly, so you will always find some news about my current work.
This month I met Charlie Haden and had the opportunity to hang and play with him. It was great and inspiring. At the end of the month I'll be in Washington D.C. with the Monk Institute Band. We'll be performing with Terence Blanchard for the Thelonious Monk Saxophone Competition.
Ferike.