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3RD JÓZSEFVÁROS
JAZZ FESTIVAL
September 15-17th 2023
RÁKÓCZI SQUARE & RÁKÓCZI MARKET HALL
Celebrate Hungarian jazz with us at the 3rd Józsefváros Jazz Festival, which this year will be hosted at Rákóczi tér in the VIIIth District of Budapest, between September 15 and 17! Budapest's most colorful district, the beautiful Józsefváros, proudly welcomes jazz lovers to this special event. When compiling this year's program, we also considered it important to present as many talented female jazz performers as possible.
Countless of our world-famous jazz musicians were born, lived, and still live in Józsefváros, starting from here on their way to world fame, promoting Hungarian culture at the same time with the help of jazz music. Don't miss the opportunity to be a part of this musical journey, where the magic of jazz meets the rich cultural atmosphere of Józsefváros.
Join us and discover the meeting of the past and the present in the musical palette of Hungarian jazz, and enjoy the ferocious concerts in the heart of the city!
PROGRAM
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15
16:00 Nagy Noémi Quartet |Rákóczi square
17:00 Balázs József Quintet | Rákóczi market hall
18:00 Oláh Kálmán Quintet ft. Andy Middleton (USA) | Rákóczi square
19:00 Toni Fidanza (Italy) piano, guest: Márton Sebes, saxophone | Rákóczi market hall
20:00 Nagy Emma Quintet| Rákóczi square
21:00 Kovász | Rákóczi market hall
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16
16:00 Tribute To Füsti Balogh Band | Rákóczi square
17:00 Zoltán Pintér and Gábor Kollmann Quartet | Rákóczi market hall
18:00 Concert by the teachers and students of the Snétberger Music Talent Center | Rákóczi square
19:00 Kálmán Balogh & Gipsy Cimbalom Band | Rákóczi market hall
20:00 KunaTones | Rákóczi square
21:00 Szezonbűnözők | Rákóczi market hall
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 17
16:00 Orbay Lilla Quintet | Rákóczi square
17:00 Tzumo Quartet | Rákóczi market hall
18:00 Balázs Elemér Group ft. Szőke Nikoletta | Rákóczi square
19:00 New Fossils | Rákóczi market hall
20:00 Duka Laci Gipsy Swing | Rákóczi square
21:00 JÜ | Rákóczi market hall
PERFORMERS
Nagy Noémi Quartet
The band mainly plays jazz standards with the full experience typical of young musicians, but with a refined sense of style that is particularly characteristic of the members of the formation. The audience is invited to the world of swing and bebop of the '40s, '50s and '60s with their light performance, which journey is made even more exciting by their own orchestrated compositions.
Band members:Noémi Nagy – vocals, Balázs Horváth – piano, Gézu Jónás – bass, Fülöp Jónás – drums
Friday 4 p.m.
Rákóczi square
Toni Fidanza (ITA) piano, guest: Márton Sebes, saxophone
The concert features a reinterpretation of well-known American tunes and some standard pieces of jazz literature in general, seasoned with some of Toni Fidanza's original compositions and improvisations. In the second part, in the duo with saxophonist Márton Sebes, the Italian (e.g. E. Morricone "Tema d'amore" from Nuovo Cinema Paradiso, B. Martino "Estate", D. Modugno "Nel blu dipinto di blu", etc.) and paying homage to Hungarian standards, the musicians present the musical culture of the two countries.
Friday 7 p.m
market hall
Tribute To Füsti Balogh Band
The band was founded in 2022, and its repertoire consists of Gábor Füsti Balogh's compositions, his favorite standards and his own compositions. Gábor Füsti Balogh was one of the most important Hungarian jazz pianists of the second half of the 1970s and the beginning of the 80s.
The profession noticed him already when he was a teenager. In 1977, he won the "Ki Mit Tud?" with his group Kis Rákfogó, and in 1979 the international jazz piano competition in Kalisz, Poland. After that, he appeared several times on Hungarian Television and was a regular guest with his band (e.g. with the "Crazy" Trio, whose members were the 19-year-old János Egri and Géza Lakatos Pecek Lakatos at the time), and as a solo guest at various rural jazz festivals on Magyar Rádió.
Band members:Áron Koós-Hutás — trumpet, French horn, Bálint Uher-Győrfi — tenor saxophone. János Egri Jr. — piano, János Egri — double bass, András Pecek Lakatos — drums
Saturday 4 p.m.
Rákóczi square
Kálmán Balogh & Gipsy Cimbalom Band
Kálmán Balogh is one of the country's most recognized dulcimer artists. The Gypsy Cimbalom Band, founded in 1996, is an attempt by six virtuoso musicians to combine Roma music, jazz, flamenco, swing, klezmer and ragtime. The end result: music that is incomparably diverse and universal, hiding new surprises every moment.
Members of the band: Kálmán Balogh - dulcimer, Péter Bede - saxophone, Mihály György - guitar, Ferenc Kovács - trumpet, violin, Frankie Látó - violin, Csaba Novák - double bass
Saturday 7 p.m.
market hall
Orbay Lilla Quintet
Lilla Orbay is one of the most outstanding individuals of the young jazz generation, who uses her musicality not only as a singer, but also as a composer and band leader. In 2021, the wider audience could notice his talent at the Young Jazz Musician of the Year final organized by the Hungarian Jazz Association, and then at the MÜPA Jazz Showcase organized in 2022, where he performed with his quintet with great success. In this formation, her piano playing is also decisive, and her breathing with the instrument is most reminiscent of the character of Norah Jones. The backbone of the band's repertoire is an ever-increasing proportion of their own compositions, which capture the listener with their light, yet exciting tone, sometimes with rockier or psychedelic touches.
Members:Lilla Orbay - vocals, piano, Patrik Sebestyén - trumpet, French horn, Márton Stummer - guitar, Bruno Barakonyi - double bass, Ambrus Richter - drums
Sunday 4 p.m. Rákóczi tér
New Fossils
New Fossils is a recent Hungarian supergroup, who also impressed the Icelandic band ADHD after watching the Hungarians at an apartment concert after their own concert. The members are active musicians of Hungarian and international jazz and light music life. Their music is woven with longing, while the end result is clearly connected to the latest trend of contemporary, urban jazz. They raise their song-oriented compositions to a higher level sometimes with electronics and sometimes with improvisation. They do all this really easily, since as members of the Dresch Quartet or Mörk, they were key players in the Hungarian jazz and popular music scene even before the band started. Their debut album was released in April 2023 by their own label, Morotva Records.
Members:Ferenc Dániel Szabó - drums, Marcell Gyányi - double bass, jr. István Tóth - guitar, Damján Ocsovay - piano, Dániel Varga - saxophone
Sunday 19:00 market hall
Balázs József Quintet
Apart from his success in jazz, József Balázs is also recognized as an arranger and composer in other genres. He also regularly tours overseas. With his playing, in addition to the most prestigious American jazz clubs, he also has many fans among the audience of the BJC Jam Sessions.
Band members: József Balázs – piano, Gábor Cvikovszky – trumpet, Zoltán Zana – saxophone, Krisztián Lakatos Pecek – bass, Elemér Balázs – dob
Friday 5 p.m.
market hall
Nagy Emma Quintet
The Artisjus prize-winning Nagy Emma Quintet is a new generation of modern, contemporary jazz
representative. Music celebrating its fifth birthday this yearfaculty has come a long way in a short time. In addition to the numerous domestic concerts, they also visited Italy, Poland, Spain, and Slovakia during competitions and festival performances.
Their latest material, Return, was released in 2023 by Morotva Records.
Band members:Emma Nagy - vocals, Péter Cseh - guitar, Ábel Dénes - double bass, Oláh Krisztián - piano, Ádám Klausz - drums
Friday 8 p.m
Rákóczi square
Zoltán Pintér and Gábor Kollmann Quartet
In 2019, Pintér Zoltán & Gábor Kollmann Quartet, and in December 2022, the band released Breaktrough. his album. The formation performs its own compositions, which follow the traditions of jazz, and with the more popular soundscape, they try to appeal to the widest possible audience. The excellent pianist, Zoltán Pintér, is having his first competitionwon it at the age of five. After that, he achieved excellent results in many classical and jazz competitions. The saxophonist Gábor Kollmann is also a defining personality of the Hungarian jazz world. He is not only a first-class exponent of his instrument, but also an excellent teacher.
Band members:Zoltán Pintér - piano, Gábor Kollmann - saxophone, György Orbán - bass, Máté Éles - drums
Saturday 5 p.m.
market hall
KunaTones
The Kuna brothers set out in 2012 to conquer the world of fusion jazz. The efforts of the Prima award-winning band, which looks back on a 30-year history, were immediately crowned with success: in 2013, they won the audience prize of the Zuglói Smooth Jazz Song Contest and the 2014 Jazzy Jazz Song Contest, and they performed with great success at Germany's oldest jazz festival, the Gronau Jazzfest . And in 2021, they won the "Hungarian Jazz Record of the Year Award" at the contest of MagyarJazz.hu, the most read jazz portal in our country. Within the genre of fusion jazz, funk, Latin, jazz-rock elements and improvisational interludes make the sound of KunaTones unique and inimitable.
Band members: Gyula Kuna - lead trumpet, Valéria Kuna - trumpet, French horn, vocals, Bence Kuna - horn, Márton Kuna - trombone, András Somos - keyboards, flute, Szabolcs Várvölgyi - guitar, Ferenc Éder "Lá" - bass guitar, Norbert Kovács - drums
Saturday 8 p.m.
Rákóczi square
Tzumo
Quartet
In previous years, Árpád Tzumo performed with such great American stars as Wayne Shorter, Terence Blanchard or Kenny Garrett.
The artist, who is also successful abroad, was able to learn the tricks of jazz piano playing from a jazz pianist of no less size than Herbie Hancock. He studied under Hancock for two years at the Monk Institute in Los Angeles. At this concert, he is accompanied by László Csízi, who is also well-known from the Modern Art Orchestra, on drums, and the legendary Torma Rudi on bass. The band is now joined by Gabriella Szabó, a singer, with brand new compositions.
Band members:Árpád Tzumo – piano, Gabriella Szabó – vocals, Rudi Torma – bass, László Csízi – drums
Sunday 5 p.m.
market hall
Duka Laci Gipsy Swing
The band revives the traditional French Gipsy Jazz atmosphere created by Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli in the 1920s and 1930s. All of this is spiced up with a bit of Hungarian flavor and temperament, and by fusing this with a bit of Bebop Jazz, they create their own unique style of soundscape. A special talent, Jocika Rácz, who is only 15 years old and an excellent guitarist, will perform with the band.
Band members: Laci Duka - violin, Péter Molnár - bass, Ernő Lakatos Pecek - drums, László Kökeny - guitar, Jocika Rácz - guitar
Sunday 8 p.m.
Rákóczi square
Oláh Kálmán Quintet ft. Andy Middleton (USA)
Kálmán Oláh, winner of the Ferenc Liszt Prize, is a returning guest of our festival. As a pianist and composer, he believes in diversity across genres. In constant experimentation and renewal. This year he comes to us with a new formation, with the guest appearance of the world-famous saxophonist Andy Middleton.
Friday 6 p.m.
Rákóczi square
Kovász
Gergő Kováts, after participating in many free, light, and especially world music formations, saw the time had come for him to embark on a journey of discovery with his companions into the endless fields between folk music and jazz. The goal of the team assembled for the science-fiction expedition is nothing less than to start from the world of jazz and gradually replace its material with the elements of the folk music culture of the Carpathian Basin, keeping its achievements. Máté Pozsár and Attila Gyárfás are recognized authorities of jazz, ubiquitous and unavoidable figures of its freer range, and, incidentally, teachers of the Academy of Music. Despite his young age, Ábel Dénes lives a routine international life as a couple: among others, he achieved major international successes with the Nagy Emma Quintet and Söndörgő.
Band members:Gergő Kováts, Máté Pozsár, Attila Gyárfás. Abel Denes
Friday 9 p.m. market hall
A concert by the teachers and students of the Snétberger Music Talent Center
The Snétberger Program has been dealing with the musical talent development of young people for more than 12 years. The performers of this year's program are selected from among the participants of the master classes of Ferenc Snétberger, Árpád Tzumó, József Barcza Horváth and David Friedman.
Contemporary jazz, own compositions and spontaneous improvisation will be heard in the performance of the young talents.
Saturday 6 p.m.
Rákóczi square
Szezonbűnözők
The Szezonbőnözők band never rehearses and never talks about music or musical ideas before a performance. They are always completely free to play. An experience like a psychedelic trip where you get lost in a forest, crossing endless undergrowth, but when you finally get out, you find yourself in a beautiful field or on a mountaintop where you've never been before....
Members of the band: Nándor Hevesi - bass guitar, DX-7, László Horváth - trumpet, evil box, Gergely Kovács - drums, Ádám Mészáros - guitar, Szabolcs Vereb - saxophone, electronics
Saturday 9 p.m. market hall
Balázs Elemér Group ft. Szőke Nikoletta
As a drummer and composer, Elemér Balázs is a defining figure of the Hungarian jazz scene. Elemér Balázs and his special drumming can be heard on nearly a hundred records to this day. In 1990, he founded his first quintet under his own name, and later he made three records with his renewed quintets with other members. In 2000, the album "Always that moment" was voted "Hungarian Jazz Album of the Year" by Gramofon magazine. In the same year, he founded one of the most successful jazz bands in Hungary, the Balázs Elemér Group. In 2005, the album Refracting Sounds was awarded the Phonogram award, and in 2006 the album Hungarian Folk Songs received a gold record.
Members: Elemér Balázs - drums, József Balázs - piano, Áron Komjáti - guitar, Krisztián Lakatos - bass
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Sunday 6 p.m. Rákóczi square
JÜ
A three-member band from Budapest. His sound combines the intensity of rock, the freedom of free jazz, the hypnotic effect of ambient textures, and the raw elevation of various folk music. The members of the trio are busy musicians of the Hungarian music scene, they came from groups such as Qualitons, Zuboly, Erik Sumo Band, Dresch Quartet or Grencsó Kollektíva.
Band members: Ernő Hock - bass guitar, Ádám Mészáros - guitar, Miklós Szilveszter - drums
Sunday 9 p.m. market hall
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