Les Czimber

A fantastic advanced pianist in a position to provide his very own conception to straight-ahead jazz, Les Czimber considers it a magic that he available it to america. He uncovered jazz in communist Hungary by hearing the Tone of voice of America broadcasts so when an adolescent he led a music group in Budapest. Offering within the Hungarian Military throughout their 1956 trend, his patrol was captured with the Russians. Whenever a Russian official found that he was a musician, that they had a lengthy discussion about music as well as the lives from the military (unlike numerous others) had been spared. Following the trend failed, Czimber escaped from Hungary by strolling all night with the snow to Yugoslavia. Several months afterwards, he shifted to Milwaukee. Czimber received some reputation when he established a global record by playing music for over 78 hours (with just a ten-minute break each 60 mins) within a section store window, an archive he afterwards broke by topping 79. In Milwaukee, Czimber fulfilled the young vocalist Al Jarreau, plus they proved helpful together for quite some time, including five a few months in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA. Czimber spent the last mentioned fifty percent of the 1960s leading a present band, and in 1971 shifted to Southern California. Since that time, he provides generally used a trio (using bassist John Patitucci for an extended period) within the Orange State area, displaying a method influenced by, however, not derivative of, Costs Evans.