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Budapest Ritmo 2024

by Martin Longley
July 9, 2024

Budapest Ritmo Szimpla Kert/Akvárium Klub Budapest, Hungary April 11-13, 2024 Due to the musical orientation of its organisers, and its general Hungarian location, the Budapest Ritmo festival tends to feature a Balkan and East European bias, presenting global-ethnic artists from within the region. There are, of ...

Budapest Jazz Club

by Sammy Stein
May 16, 2024

The Budapest Jazz Club is a vibrant, colorful place where people meet to eat, drink, and enjoy good music. On the map, what appears to be a narrow lane, turns out in reality to be a wide bustling public walkway, and about halfway along, the small sign for the jazz club sits over a large entrance, ...

The Jazz Historian: John Edward Hasse

by B.D. Lenz
August 17, 2023

Jazz is not simply a style of music; it is also a culture. The impact of this cultural force has had many ups and downs throughout the last century but, undeniably, has been felt worldwide across all nations and all languages. With such a storied past, it's important that an account of its beginnings and those ...

Christopher Robin Cox

Born: July 28, 1971

Christopher Robin Cox is a veteran creative improvising trombonist, originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, who now lives in Budapest, Hungary.

After nearly 10 years away from playing music full time, earning three academic degrees, including a PhD in Geography,  he decided to return to his horn with a vengeance. He currently leads a trio and a double-bass quartet in Budapest and is beginning to tour around Central Europe as a soloist under the name AlOnE.

He brings a huge, dark tone, and a style that utilizes bluesy, gravely split-tones, plunger, and other prepared techniques. As an improviser, he is equally comfortable playing with lots of space and in more intense improvisation settings. He frequently utilizes effects pedals and loopers to create ambient soundscapes that are more akin to movie soundtracks that free jazz. However, during his time growing up the San Francisco Bay Area, he played with greats like Glenn spearman, Marco Eneidi, Donald Robinson, Garth Powell, and George Cremasci to name a few. He has also performed with George Cartwrite, Chris Bates, Nathan Hanson, and Jason Robinson.

Live From The Opus Jazz Club: Csaba Czirják Quintet, Xavi Torres Trio & Mash

by Martin Longley
December 31, 2021

The Csaba Czirják Quintet Opus Jazz Club Budapest, Hungary September 9, 2021 Budapest Music Center is a utopian artistic edifice. It houses a large concert hall, a recording studio, rehearsal rooms, a research library, a café and an impressive hoard of instruments, suited to jazz and moderne classical ...

2020: The Year in Jazz

by Ken Franckling
January 2, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic put the jazz world in a tailspin, just like the world at large, in 2020. And there is plenty of uncertainty going into the new year about what “new normal: might emerge from the darkness. International Jazz Day, like so many other things, became an online virtual event this time around. Pianist Keith ...

Billy Prim

Born: July 31, 1997

Billy Prim was born in Larisa , Greece in 1997. He started playing drums at the age of 15. His musical studies include 6 years of classical piano lesson. Billy he finished his basic education in Greece but after all that the music placed him somewhere else. He moved to Hungary and there he studied the drums. During and after his studies Billy was joining several musical projects, recordings and tours with different ensembles of different genres of music. Billy keeps going on with his musical journey, improvement, looks forward to new challenges, experiments for a better and newer experience

Rozina Patkai

The classically trained, young Hungarian singer, Rozina Pátkai found her true voice as a jazz artist. For the past three years she has been thrilling fans with her bossa nova infused compositions, earning honors at numerous competitions, Jazz and Fringe festivals throughout Europe.

Csuhaj-Barna Tibor

Born: September 21, 1964

Tibor Csuhaj-Barna was born in Dunajvaros ( Hungary ) at the age of 8-13 he received classical piano lessons.1979 began to play electric gitar and slowly moved to play electric bass. From 1987 to 1990 he studied jazz double bass at the jazz department of Bela Bartok Conservatory , and from 1994 at the Jazz Departement of Ferenc Liszt Music Academy. He’s teacher was BalazsBerkes. He was a member of many outstanding bands in the past 20 years, such as the Binder Trio, Brass Age, Regos Quartet,, etc. Besides jazz, he also played folk music for 13 years in the Vasmalom Band. He ha had successful performances at many folk festivals throughout the world. He is a double bass and bass.guitar teacher of the jazz department of Bela Bartok Music Secondary School and Aladár Tóth Music School, jazz double bass teacher of Ferenc Liszt Music Academy , Budapest. Csuhaj-Barna has performed with Mike Zwerin, John Tchicai, Nicolas Simione, Sorin Romanescu,Karoly Binder, Gyorgy Szabados, Ravi, Hamish Moore, Mihaly Dresch, Mircea Tiberian, Robin Asheroy,Maurice de Martin, Kalman Olah in order to name some. He has performed in the following festivals and concert venues: Shetland Festival , Jersey Music Festival (UK), Tokyo, Osaka, Mie, Yamamoto, Miyako-island, Kyoto, Niigata, ( Japan) , Hapavesi Festival, Rakkyla Festival (Finland), San Sebastian, Madrid, Oviedo festival, Bilbao, S. de Compostela, ( Spain ), Lisbon, Braga, Gimares, Evora, V.de Castello, Azores-islands ( Portugal), Glasgow, Edinborough (Scotland), Skagen festival (Danmark), Dranouter festival (Belgium), Dunaufest (Austria),Sf. Georghe, Bukarest Hungarian Cultural Center(Romania), Berlin Hungarian Cultural Center ( Germany),Belgrade (Serbia), Andorra U.S.A. Hungarian Houses ( Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego) 2016: Triapani Music Festival, Sicily (ITA)2016: Tel-Aviv, Haifa, Mitzpe-Ramon2018: Tallinn (EST)
2018: Rovigo (ITA)

Attila László

Born: July 10, 1953

Having graduated as an architect from the Technical University Budapest (BME), and as guitarist from the Jazz Faculty of the Béla Bartók Conservatory, he started to play in leading Hungarian jazz bands. He founded his own band, the group „Kaszakő” in 1975, which had a really original sound. Their first record was published under the title Édenkert (Garden of Eden) in 1983. He formed the group „Things” with sax player Tony Lakatos in 1985, which functioned for a period of seven years. During his career he played with such world famous jazz musicians as Randy Brecker, Anthony Jackson, James Moody, Tommy Campbell, David Friedman, Gary Willis, Hiram Bullock, Billy Cobham, Miroslav Vitous, Peter Erskine, Bob Mintzer, IlaiyaRaaja, Jimmy Haslip, Russell Ferrante and Patti Austin.