Rudolf Tomsits

Rudolf Tomsits (12 May 1946 - 11 June 2003) was a Hungarian jazz musician who played the trumpet and the flugelhorn.

After a year in Sweden where he worked with Arne Domnerus, Jan Johansson und Egil Johansen, Tomsits became soloist, composer and arranger of the Stúdió 11 band of Magyar Rádió.

In 1971, they toured Europe as the opening act for the Jazz Giants, a band that included Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk and Art Blakey.

[1] From 1977 to 1980 he conducted a sextet and from 1980 to 1992 he worked for the Yugoslav Radio and Television Association as leader of its Novi Sad big band.

In 1995, he formed the Take 4 quartet with Gyula Babos, Aladár Pege and Imre Kőszegi, which published three CDs.

The Rudolf Tomsits Quartet with György Berkes (piano), Balázs Berkes (bass) and Vilmos Jávori (drums)