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This is the Artist Database of BMC, which includes information about composers, musicians, orchestras, choirs and groups that are either Hungarian or Hungarian by origin or live in Hungary, as well as information about releases recorded with them.

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Quartet B

Orchestra, choir, ensemble
Formed
1995
 
The band was founded in 1995 by Mihály Borbély who is equally versatile in folk and world music as well as in jazz and contemporary music. Similarly, the members of the band are all-round musicians open to all kinds of musical innovations. The present grouping goes back to September 1997 and their first CD came out already the following summer, in June 1998 at Fonó Records. Beside concerts given in Hungary they participated and won success in Paris (Festival d'Ile de France), in Zagreb Jazz Festival, and in Prague and Berlin as well. In 2000 they had concerts with the legendary jazz flute player Herbie Mann in Budapest. Later a record was also made with him and a ten-minute excerpt of this performance can be heard on the CD "Herbie Mann & Sona Terra - Eastern European Roots". Herbie Mann's (1930-2003) last project with the band was recorded in October 2002 and the album "Carpathia" will be released in the USA soon.

The music of Quartet B is characterised by an amalgam of the various music traditions of the Carpathian Basin and of the Balkans with their interesting melodic variations, with their sometimes subtly transparent and sometimes powerful rhythmic patterns and now and then also with a taste of contemporary music. Crystal Mountain, the second album of Quartet B was released by Fonó Records last December.

A guest artist frequently appearing with the band is Miklós Lukács cimbalom player.
 
Year Title Publisher Code Remark
1998 Quartet B: Jelek
(Signs) 		Fonó Records FA-044-2 Own
2003 Quartet B.: Üveghegy
(Quartet B.: Crystal Mountain) 		Fonó Records FA-211-2 Own