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[05.06.2008] The last show was completed on the 3rd of May in Debrecen. The audience of Győr, Budapest and Debrecen enjoyed the band’s and the guests’ play. The saxophone of John Nugent and the tar of Malik Mansurov were superb! The tour continues in Romania from the 7th to 10th May. The special guest on the Romanian leg is Dresch Mihály. The cities where the Djabe concerts are going to take place are Tirgu Mures, Sibium, Brasov and Ploesti. - - -
The long awaited new studio album from Djabe just released. - - - [15.01.2008]
In 2008 Djabe goes on with a renewed energy. In January we finish the long awaited studio album entitled Take on. The official release date of the CD version is 18th of February. The DVD Audio incarnation of this release with a lot of visual extras will come out end of March. Promoting the new album Djabe goes on tour on three continets, Europa, North America and Asia. Djabe works as a quintet, there is no replacement in the line up of unforgettable Sipos András. Otherwise Djabe has a special guest at some gigs in Hungary and USA. Rochester based John Nugent on saxophone will join to the band. John played among others with Ella Fitzgerald, Tony Benett, Clark Terry, a Temptations, Steve Ray Vaugh and he was a member of the Woody Hermann Orchestra. The Sipi memorial and charity concert was a huge success. Great spirit and floating music. We plan to release the whole show on DVD. Some further contribution with Steve Hackett is on the Horizons. The postproductions of the 2006 and 2007 live shows are still ongoing projects. We hope the Slices of live double DVD can come out this year too. 15th of January 2008 Banai Szilárd – drums - - - [12.05.2007]
On 30th November, Petőfi Csarnok had a full house for Sipi’s memorial concert. It is unbelievable but we played for four hours! I believe we managed to pay homage and say farewell to Sipi the way he deserved it. In addition we could help his family financially. Our guests made this evening really special for us, too, and in spite of the sad occasion, we managed to unleash our positive energies. Judging from the reactions of the audience, we could express all we intended to. Steve Hackett, Mihály Dresch, Kálmán Balogh, Said Tichiti, Sándor Budai and Ferenc Németh were simply fantastic. I think we received the most special and greatest help from Steve. However, we must not forget about the technicians, the partner companies and representatives of the media, who made this evening possible with their generous work. Once again, let me thank everyone who took part in realising this concert. I hope we will remember Sipi and this evening for a long time! Attila Égerházi Richard Szőke's photos made at the concert - - - [10.08.2007] THE DJABE AND STEVE HACKETT  30th November 2007 - 7 PM Guest musicians: Said Tichiti, Kálmán Balogh, Mihály Dresch, the Magony Ensemble and actor friends. Founding member of the Djabe, percussionist and singer András Sipos unexpectedly died at the age of 53. He left a vast void after him both on stage and in the band. He was a determining member, forming the sound of the Djabe and he took the lion's share in achieving the success and various awards of the orchestra both in Hungary and abroad. His friends, fellow musicians and actors, as well as the general public loved and respected him for his colourful, cheerful personality. He delighted the audience with his performance with the Djabe in around 19 countries outside Hungary. András Sipos is mourned by the acting society, his musician friends and most of all, his family: his wife and three young daughters. Tercsike is seven, Anna and Ágota are four years old. The program of "András Sipos Charity and Memorial Concert" Actor colleagues pay homage to him in the first part of the program. An outstanding guest of the concert is Steve Hackett, former guitarist of the Genesis, who cooperated on the album titled 'Sheafs are Dancing' ('Táncolnak a kazlak') and appeared in concert with the group in London 2004. He accepted the invitation without hesitation. He will also perform a separate block of songs from Hackett's own repertoire. Naturally, Steve will play several songs together with the Djabe during the concert. The audience can also hear Ferenc Kovács and his ensemble, the Magony; they will remember Sipi accompanied by Kálmán Balogh cymbal player and Mihály Dresch. The group would like to remember András with a performance worthy of him; therefore they are to put on stage one of the most exciting Djabe programs ever, the standard of which will be further enhanced by the appearing guest musicians. Ticket prices: Tickets are available: In ticket offices of Concert and Media, in the office of Gramy Records and on the venue. Online booking: www.jegyelado.hu, www.gramy.com "The Djabe is making a farewell CD for Sipi. The band is recording the material of the album in the studio in early October. We play every note for András. With the help of old tunes, never before played compositions, archived and unused recordings, Sipi will also be present in the studio and on some of the tracks. Further information: www.djabe.hu Without whom the concert could not have been arranged: Votec, HG Event Technics, Perfect Design Factory, Duotone Repro, Print America, Pharma Press Kft., Pont Reklám, QIB, Jazzy Rádió, Duna TV, Concert és Média Kft. We are constantly refreshing the list of the concert's sponsors. - - -
His play and voice was one of the basis of the so called 'Djabe sound'. From Canada to Azerbaijan the audience enjoyed and loved his expertise and way of presenting it. He had a significant role in Djabe's success and also in winning domestical and international prizes. His personality and homour was a wonderful gift for the members of Djabe. He graduated in 1981 as an actor at the College of Dramatic and Cinematic Art and than was the member of 'Víg Theatre' for 18 years. We will keep him in our memories and will take care of his musicial and intellectual heritage. Djabe - - - [09.06.2007]
Djabe will play this September in Berlin and Wien. - - - [07.30.2007]
To attention of American Djabe fans! Djabe Summer 2007 tour hit the American continent 4th of August. The band plays in Canada at the Kaslo Jazz, BC on 4th and 5th of August. Djabe continues the tour in the USA. Djabe will perform in the famous Blues Alley Club Washington DC, on 7th, and at the Paectec Jazzfestival in Baltimore, MD, on 9th. Please check the details here: Washington concert program guide
[05.29.2007] Djabe's summer Parallels tour can be seen in the following countries:
Azerbaijan, Latvia, Finland, Portugal, Austria, Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria, Canada and USA.
[04.19.2007] The album was recorded during the Slices of Life 2006 tour in the USA, Europe and Hungary. - - - [11.13.2006] Double DVD - - - [10.20.2006] - - -
Djabe plays a series of concerts in Germany, Poland, Czech Republic and Hungary in September and October! The band continues the succesful Slices of Life tour. Details can be reach here. Don't miss it! Another good news that thedouble live DVD, recorded during the Sheafs are dancing tour is at the final stage of the production, and will be come out in October. More than two hours spectacular show in surround sound, screen films, and approximate two hours bonus footage recorded beetwen 2003 and 2006.
- - - [07.07.2006] Djabe has just finished another successful tour. Known as the Slices Of Life 2006 Summer Tour, it involved 5 counties with nearly 15 thousand people enjoying the music of the band. In Lithuania, at the Klaipeda festival Égerházi Attila, the band leader, even picked up an award!
Djabe gave 4 concerts in Rochester, New York state, USA. The audience ardently welcomed Barabás Tamás's unique compositions and virtuoso instument solos. There were many who had already seen the band 2 years ago who were there specifically to watch the performance of Djabe. Others even chose for the special Hungarian band, changing their earlier choice of a James Brown concert.
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Rochester Festival critics about Djabe (FD) - - - [05.19.2006] Djabe's Summer Tour will reach Lithuania, USA, Italy, Poland, but starts and ends in Budapest. If you live in those countries, don't miss this rare opportunity to see Djabe live. - - - [03.13.2006] Djabe’s “Sheafs are Dancing” album was nominated for Surround Music Award 2005 in L.A. and now the new surround sound music disc has just came out! You can enjoy the tracks of the new studio album in dts and Dolby Digital 5.1 sound. For the stereo fans the disc provides uncompressed LPCM stereo tracks. The new release is fulfilled with plenty of extras again: - - - [03.24.2006] - - - [02.28.2006] - - - [11.28.2005] 2005 SURROUND MUSIC AWARDS NOMINEES ANNOUNCED DTS Presents Fourth Annual Event on December 15, 2005 - - - [11.15.2005] The long awaited new Djabe studio album has released. Djabe, the Hungarian Music Award, eMeRTon and PRinceAward winners band, which has become one of most popular Hungarian invited bands to foreign festivals in the last years, has published its new CD. What makes a band a good band? Critics of Miklós Kovács - - - [10.11.2005] Djabe will be guest at the jazzfestival in Hrádec Kralové. The leader Hungarian jazz/world fusion band will play on the closing day in the Aldis Congress Centre, which is the main stage at the festival. Djabe is the third performer, and their concert starts around 9 pm. The Czech television will broadcast the show later on the channel "CT 2" starting at 11 pm. and covering the whole concert in their programme "Noc s Andelem" (Night with Angel) which is special live event of a regular weekly music magazine of the Czech Television. - - - [09.28.2005] On the 2nd of October, at 21.15 (GMT+1) the Munich BR alpha television will broadcast the Djabe concert which was recorded at the Burghausen Jazzwoche 2005 on 15th of April. The successful concert was held on the stage of Wackerhalle. This was the last night when Tóth Viktor alto sax player - who had been worked for one year with the band -played with Djabe. Don't miss this unique performance of Djabe which will be presented in 5.1 surround sound. More information - - -
Finnish and Sweedish jazz fans are fascinated by Djabe Djabe stepped on the stage of the Pori Jazz festival, celebrating its 40 th jubilee on a bright sunny evening. The momentum and freshness of the one-hour-concert, which started at 8 o’clock in the evening, and its Hungarian characteristic captivated the audience, who welcomed the compositions and solos with continuous frenetic applause. In the 21 of July program of Pori world class stars like Charlie Haden, Jamie Cullumn and Kenny Garrett stood on the stage. Stockholm Jazz 2005, the other world wide known festival was a great success as well in the life of Djabe. The huge stage was set up on the Isle of Skeppsholmen, in the heart of Stockholm. In front of it was the auditorium, where approximately 5,000 people could sit down or stand while viewing the concert. After the stormy concert the audience of Stockholm attacked the CD stand, later a crowd was standing in front of the dedication tent. From among the brand new enthusiastic Djabe fans it was exclaimed that Djabe’s performance was the best, while on the 23rd of July such stars as Johnny Griffin, Toots Thielemans, Lisa Nilsson, Didier Lockwood and Peter Cincotti also performed and the day before the last performance, Lee Ritenour, Roy Haynes, Lauryn Hill and John Abercrombie. Djabe gives a concert next in Bulgaria at the international Bansko Jazz festival. Djabe
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The Pori festival, has been performed over the last 40 years, where only 4 Hungarian formations have actually been part of the programme (Aladár Pege, Budapest Big Band, Frigyes Pleszkán and the Rátonyi - Gadó duet).. It is well-know to the Hungarian audience and stands out from among all other musical events. In 2005 Djabe will be the next. The Pori programme brings out such stars as Jamie Cullum, Charlie Haden, Kenny Garrett, Ronnie Cuber, Roy Haynes, Lauryn Hill, etc. John Nugent, the artistic director of the Rochester Jazzfestival, following last year's stormy American success of the band, invited Djabe to the Stockholm Jazzfestival, which is also under his art management. The band will perform here on the 23 of July, two days after the Pori performance. Before the North-European concerts Djabe will perform at the Burghausen Jazz festival in Germany. The Burghausen Jazz festival, which is organized in the region of München and Salzburg is the most significant festival in the area. The German organisers will prepare a DVD recording also of the performances of the band. It is joyous that finally a Hungarian band, playing exacting
music could be successful both at home and abroad. Djabe will be on
tour with the following setup: Tamás Barabás - bass guitar, Ferenc Kovács
- trumpet, violin, Zoltán Kovács - piano, András Sipos - percussions,
Attila Égerházi - guitar, Szilárd Banai - drums. The travel of the band is sponsored by: - - -  [10.08.2004]Djabe’s Sheafs are dancing DVD recieved the 4th PRince Award in the cathegory of best film, video and multimedia work The PRince Award International Public Relations Festival’s Award Ceremony was held on October 1, 2004 in Budapest at the KOGART Art Foundation’s hall, with the help of MATÁV as main sponsor. The series of PRince Award festivals started in the mid 90’s. This year the organizers recalled the festival’s traditions, which brought a significant international attention. Beside the Hungarian works, the jury chose the best of each category among works from Italy, Germany, USA, Bulgaria, Austria, Portugal and Belgium. The Diamond Prize of the PRince Award Festival went to the best creation among the winners. Djabe's Sheafs are dancing DVD won the 1st price at the PRince Award Festival in the cathegory of best film, video and multimedia work. continue to the article - - -  [09.03.2004.]Out now! Djabe - Sheafs are Dancing DVD-audio GR-039-DVDA You can enjoy the best studio album of Djabe, Sheafs are Dancing in real surround 5.1. - Playable by all DVD players. - Audio tracks can be reached by DVD-video players: DTS 5.1, Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0. - Audio track can be reached by DVD-audio players: MLP 5.1 and MLP 2.0. - Starguests: Steve Hackett, Ben Castle - Extras: Videoclips, Concertfootage, Documentaries (English and Hungarian), Picture galleries. - DVD authoring made by Abbey Road Interactive. - 14 pages colour booklet. - No Region Code. More on the DVD - - -
The band performed with the following set up: Tamás Barabás (base guitar), Szilárd Banai (drums), Attila Égerházi (guitar), Ferenc Kovács (trumpet, violin), Zoltán Kovács (keyboards), András Sipos (percussion instruments, songs), Viktor Tóth (alt saxophone). Links: Home page of the Hungarian Embassy Photos of the concerts
After America the band performed on the other side of the Atlantic. Tickets could be purchased for the Djabe concert for the 11 June 2004, at the Spitz. Here the band gave a concert from the material of the American concerts,
however Steve Hackett, once the guitar player of Genesis and already
a player on the latest album the Sheafs are Dancing, joined them at the
beginning
of the program. They began by playing a mutual record (The Reflections
of Thiérache), this was then followed by Flying. At the end of the concert
Steve, for the very first time in his life, joined the London improvisation
with an angklungon. The band and Steve, who exclaimed that he really
enjoyed
playing with Djabe, were called back by the understanding and enthusiastic
audience to give several encores. Some of the colleagues of Abbey Road
Interactive, who are working at present on the authoring of the multi-channel
surround
sound DVD Audio, due for completion in Autumn 2004, also participated
in the concert. The band conducted by Tamás Barabás enhanced once again
the
reputation of Hungarian music and musicians! - - -
Box office: (T) 020 7392 9032; or 24-hour ticket line Way Ahead: (T) 0871
2200260; online booking: www.wayahead.com - - -
Djabe was one of the outstanding performers of the one-week-festival as
the excellent representative of the Hungarian Jazz-world fusion and, at
the same time, the first Hungarian performer at the 15 years old world class
Kaunas Jazz Festival. The packed VDU Grand Concert Hall did not just enjoy
the concert though, for the members of band were also incredibly successful
through the jam session also. Kaunas
Jazz Festival 2004 - - -
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The Hungarian leg of the Take on tour was a great success
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Djabe will play in 10 countries this summer!
Djabe - Message from the Road
Djabe - Sheafs were dancing
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Recieving possibilities: 
USA and Canada
The Sheafs are Dancing DVD-Audio is nominated for Surround Music Award 2005 in the Best additional features category! 
Out now!
Djabe will play in Czech Republic on 22th of October 
Djabe concert will be broadcasted by the Bayerisher Rundfunk alpha
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