Live Jazz in Budapest

Fri, Jul 10, 8:00 PM

Salamon Tűzkő All Stars (HU)

Opus Jazz Club / Ferencvaros / Map

Salamon Tűzkő began playing the classical trumpet, but was soon captivated by jazz, the theory and practice of which he also learned from his father. His quintet won a special prize at the Müpa Jazz Showcase in 2022, and has been active on the Hungarian and international jazz scene ever since. For this concert, the young bandleader has gathered the country’s most sought-after and acclaimed musicians: Krisztián Csapó (trombone), Máté Balogh (saxophone), Béla Szakcsi Lakatos Jr. (piano), János Egri (double bass), and Elemér Balázs (drums), to pay tribute to the jazz tradition. Their program features iconic hard bop arrangements with three winds of compositions by Miles Davis and Art Blakey, as well as their original pieces.

Hans Lüdemann and his French-German octet TransEuropeExpress have started their long-term project On the Edges in 2019. Their latest BMC Records album was just released in May, and the musicians are now taking the next step, presenting a grand finale live: the fifth and final new project of the cycle, also to be released on BMC Records, features Ukrainian singer Tamara Lukasheva and Polish trumpeter Tomasz Dąbrowski as guests. Both guests will perform their own compositions, which will serve as the basis for improvisations by the outstanding soloists of the Franco-German ensemble. Hans Lüdemann creates the framework for this edition of On the Edges with new ideas, thereby integrating all five projects in the series into a grand pan-European musical mosaic. The On the Edges series visits five regions inside and outside the European Union. The members of the TransEuropeExpress Ensemble and invited guest artists draw creative energy from the interplay and fusion of their musical languages to paint a colorful, richly layered picture of European jazz, while making palpable the clash of mu