Career Overview
About Tony Lakatos
P. Mauriat’s artist biography traces Lakatos from violin study in Budapest to saxophone, the Béla Bartók Conservatory, and a professional career based in Germany since 1981. It documents roughly three hundred recordings as leader or sideman and extensive international touring.[1]
His project history includes eleven years in Jasper van ’t Hof’s Pili Pili, a long soloist role with the Frankfurt Radio Big Band, and changing groups under his own name. Leader albums range from post-bop sessions with Kirk Lightsey and Al Foster to Hoagy Carmichael songs and the Hungarian-rooted Gypsy Colours.[1][2]
