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The Budapest Swing Quartet

 

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Budapest Swing Quartet has often been referred to as "one of the best Swing groups in the Southern Hemisphere". Bob Jones, Dimitri Edmonds, and Paul Tucker founded the group about four years ago. American expatriate Kiwi guitarist Ron Sparling joined the BSQ a year later and contributed excellent rhythm guitar to the group's sound.

Before founding Pendulum, Dimitri Edmonds established his reputation in the 1980s as a member of the popular band "Puha Bandidos". Bob Jones gained fame early for his powerful and tasteful vocals, delighting audiences throughout North America, Europe, & Australia with regular concert, television, & radio appearances since the 1970s. He has since become acclaimed for his skill as a Swing guitarist and violinist. Paul Tucker founded the BSQ after making a name for himself as guitarist in the .


We continue to work to improve this page and hope it will just keep getting better. You can check out a list of songs the Budapest Swing Quartet performs. Above, you've seen photographs of some of the members of Pendulum , and we've told you a little about of the group. We plan to have individual pages giving details about each of the members of BSQ soon.

If you like the popular music of the '20s, '30s, & '40s (and good Swing from later decades); if you like Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Joe Venutti, Stephane Grappelli, Django Reinhardt, Glenn Miller, the Dorsey brothers, Ambrose, Fletcher Henderson, Louis Prima, Louis Jordan, Louis Armstrong, Mel Torme, Count Basie, Stuff Smith, Eddie South, Nat "King" Cole, Jon Hendricks; if you like good Swing, superb vocals, good music, then you owe it to yourself to hear the BSQ. If you have already heard the Budapest Swing Quartet perform, you know what we mean.

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In case you'd like to explore or learn more about Swing music, here is a page of links to other sites with further information.


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photography by Matthew King (Hamilton, New Zealand),
Harry Houchins (University of Oregon), Action Photo (Eugene, Oregon),
Mike Ellis (Auckland NZ), Katie Wendt, and others


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A photograph of Bob Jones and David Church

Here you see Bob Jones, on the left with the violin, and David Church, on the right with the guitar. In addition to performances with the Budapest Swing Quartet group, Bob performs with internationally known Swing combo Pendulum on occasions. In Pendulum, Dave's solid rhythm and Bob's soaring violin breaks give a fiery Hot Club feel to their music, while their vocals--and especially their vocal harmonies--epitomize Swing at its best.





The photo above shows Dimitri.

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A Few of Our Favourite Tunes . . .

Here are a few of the many songs and tunes performed by the members of the Budapest Swing Quartet. This list covers only about half of their repertory, but it will give you some idea of what the BSQ does in case you haven't heard them.

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Remember . . . .

the BSQ Swings like a Pendulum.




Trust us: you don't need to look below this line.