ARTISTS

Lantos Zoltán Babos Gyula Kaltenecker Zsolt

 

Gyula Babos
"...If you do not know his play, you simply lose colours from the palette of existence and revelation, and they will never get back to you after the moment when the magic fades away..."



Elemér Balázs
"Elemér is one of the best drummers around right now, in my opinion. He plays with such musicality and finesse and has the ability to listen inside each musical moment with the kind of spontaneous decision - making that allows everyone that plays with him to sound their best. He also has a wonderful touch on the instrument - I always enjoy the chance to play with him and to hear him." Pat Metheny

József Barcza Horváth
In recent years he has been one of the most influential bass players on the Hungarian jazz scene, having played on over 25 discs.

Tamás Berki
Tamás Berki is one of the very few jazz musicians, who can develop direct contacts with his audience: his fans also love his suggestive concerts with sincere atmosphere, where he is -so to say - breathing together with the audience. Berki made huge efforts to make jazz recognised and loved, and to bring it closer to the people.



Mihály Borbély
Borbély Mihály studied classical clarinet and jazz saxophone at the Bartók Béla Conservatory and the Liszt Ferenc Music Academy. Through his career in addition to his original instruments (clarinet and alto saxophone) has specialised in playing unusual wind instruments (the tárogató, folk recorders, kaval, dvojnice, fujara, ocarina, bombard, zurna) as well as the soprano and tenor saxophone.


László Dés
"I perform as well as compose and I do not mind it. I never restrain myself favouring only one of them but I want to be faithful to my saxophone" Dés László




Kornél Fekete-Kovács
"Many thanks for the great playing and your music a few weeks ago. You are a great musician! I hope we get to play again some time soon. The band played beautifully as did you, and your arrangements were very clever and skillful. And you are a great guy as well! It was a real experience to play on a floating stage. Glad there were no tidal waves. Until the next time..." Bob Mintzer

"There is an epic quality to the writing which I tried to maintain in my performance that for me alludes to higher realms of eternity and immortality. The story of the Wayfarer is full of high drama, framed with eternal hope and love of humanity. Words inevitably fail at these times, but the music speaks for itself." Dave Liebman


Kornél Horváth
"The Hungarian Kornél Horváth today belongs to the best percussionists in the world. His sensitive sounding fantasy, the virtuosity of his obsessed playing either on a vase or a small box of generous wood seem unsurpassable. Comparing to his fellow-percussionists Trilok Gurtu, Giovanni Hidalgo and Airto Moreira the difference is that Horváth comes from a country that has no traditions in folk percussion music. This gives his playing a remarkable neutrality with an absolutely individual enchantmet." Ulrich Olshausen, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung


Zsolt Kaltenecker
"Kaltenecker Zsolt is one of the most prominent pianists... First of all let us examine his brilliant technique that reminds us Oscar Peterson of a pianist of similar qualities. His unique phraseology sets him apart from fellow musicians. Moreover he has a fantastic sense of harmony." Musee Magazine - Yuichiro Takagi


Zoltán Lantos
"Zoltán Lantos is a violin virtuoso with a classical education who after the study of the Indian way of playing (9 years in India) has transformed an overlapping of different influences into modern improvized music... a music which is always in the setting out between sensitive, free linear chamber music, dance-like, ad-hoc-produced electronic, loop-ostinato heated movement and shrill turbulences while the altruism of the different players is never lost... a surprisingly vital and independent world music production." Ulrich Olshausen / Frankfurter Allgemeine


Kálmán Oláh
Kálmán Oláh is a pianist who has a lot to say to the people. Tradition, remarkable instrumentation, harmony - rich fantasy, with deep emotions.



Béla Jr. Szakcsi Lakatos
In the footsteps of his father, Szakcsi Lakatos Béla, he has also chosen the piano as his instrument. From the age of six to twelve he had a classical education then his interest turned to jazz music

Horváth Kornél Berki Tamás Balázs Elemér Fekete-Kovács Kornél Ifj. Szakcsi-Lakatos Béla Dés László Barcza Horváth József Borbély Mihály Oláh Kálmán