Vasvári Pál
electric bass
26 May 1957 Budapest - 23 June 2016
Pál Vasvári started playing in jazz bands professionally even before completing his studies at the Béla Bartók Conservatory as a pupil of Balázs Berkes. He was a member of the groups Rákfogó (with Gábor Füsti Balogh and Tony Lakatos, among others) and Bacillus (with László Gárdonyi, and also Tony Lakatos), and with the latter he recorded albums and toured Western Europe with great success. In the mid-1980s he formed a group with Krzesimir Debski, composed and prepared arrangemets for it, then in 1986 together with Béla Szakcsi Lakatos he established the Hungarian Jazz Quartet. From 1989 he co-led the band In Line with Gyula Csepregi. They toured Hungary and Europe, made recordings, and invited internationally recognized jazz musicians, such as Dave Samuels and Alex Acuna. Vasvári has also played with foreign artists in his own music projects, thus he appeared on concert stages and made albums with Bernard Maseli, Mike Stern, Russell Ferrante, and Paco Sery. He formed the Pál Vasvári String Trio in 2001 with Miklós Birta guitarist and Frankie Látó violinist. This line-up has remained unchanged to the present day.
Pál Vasvári started playing in jazz bands professionally even before completing his studies at the Béla Bartók Conservatory as a pupil of Balázs Berkes. He was a member of the groups Rákfogó (with Gábor Füsti Balogh and Tony Lakatos, among others) and Bacillus (with László Gárdonyi, and also Tony Lakatos), and with the latter he recorded albums and toured Western Europe with great success. In the mid-1980s he formed a group with Krzesimir Debski, composed and prepared arrangemets for it, then in 1986 together with Béla Szakcsi Lakatos he established the Hungarian Jazz Quartet. From 1989 he co-led the band In Line with Gyula Csepregi. They toured Hungary and Europe, made recordings, and invited internationally recognized jazz musicians, such as Dave Samuels and Alex Acuna. Vasvári has also played with foreign artists in his own music projects, thus he appeared on concert stages and made albums with Bernard Maseli, Mike Stern, Russell Ferrante, and Paco Sery. He formed the Pál Vasvári String Trio in 2001 with Miklós Birta guitarist and Frankie Látó violinist. This line-up has remained unchanged to the present day.