Budateher Jazz Night: Frankie Látó Quartet

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Artisjus Award-winning violinist Frankie Látó founded his new quartet in 2023, bringing together the traditions of jazz-rock and fusion jazz with the freedom of contemporary improvisation. The ensemble’s repertoire is built primarily around original compositions, drawing significant inspiration from Miles Davis’s electric period as well as the musical legacy of Joe Zawinul and Weather Report. The quartet’s sound evokes the spirit of the seminal American and European jazz-rock groups of the 1970s, while reinterpreting the genre through a contemporary perspective and a fresh artistic approach. Virtuosity, musical interaction, and improvisation play equally important roles in their performances, while the compositions themselves form a cohesive and distinctive musical identity. One of the ensemble’s defining characteristics is its placement of the violin at the center of a musical landscape where the instrument is rarely featured as a lead voice. Frankie Látó’s artistic development was profoundly influenced by his mentor, the legendary French jazz violinist Didier Lockwood, whose musica