"Although the Harmonia Jazz Workshop that used to run the gigs at Nyitott Muhely (Open Workshop) hasn't as yet found a new home, we would like to call your attention to an exceptional opportunity to hear one of the most unique musicians on the contemporary British jazz scene.This concert forms part of an exchange deal between the 606 Club in London and the Budapest Jazz Club that was initiated by the Hungarian Cultural Centre in London.
BYRON WALLEN will be appearing at the Budapest Jazz Club
(Budapest VIIIth district, Muzeum utca 9 – building of the Kossuth Klub) at 21.00 on Friday, 24th October 2008
Trumpeter Byron Wallen is of the new generation of highly educated black British musicians. Like award-winning alto-sax player, Soweto Kinch who got his degree in History at Cambridge, Byron Wallen, instead of music, read Mathematics, Philosophy and Psychology at the University of Sussex.
Nevertheless, he ended up playing in such diverse company as Paul Weller's Style Council, a most unusual duo of himself and vocalist Cleveland Watkiss, the bands of Courtney Pine, Jean Toussaint and the American, Charles Earland. He also had a go with rappers and a galaxy of African musicians like Manu Dibango and the great Hugh Masekela. However, jazz is his true metier.
American jazz greats like saxophonist Sam Rivers or pianist Andrew Hill seek out Byron Wallen to play with whenever they come to Europe. John Fordham, the severe jazz critic of The Guardian remarked that Wallen had given a new dimension to the legacy of Miles Davis.
With his own band he has managed to create a glorious fusion of North African music and jazz. At the Budapest Jazz Club he is likely to play more straight-ahead music with such top Hungarian artists as Gabor Cseke, Viktor Hars and Gyorgy Jeszenszky.
GABOR CSEKE on the piano is well-known to the regulars at the Open Workshop, partly from the days when he led his own trio and also from the earlier incarnations of Viktor Toth's and then Gabor Bolla's quartets. At present he is also one of the mainstays of the Modern Art Orchestra.
The bassist VIKTOR HARS, one of the charismatic figures of the Great Generation of Hungarian jazz, whose own compositions and arrangements also attest to his extraordinary musical intelligence
Drummer GYORGY JESZENSZKY is a fantastic all-rounder who crops up in the most diverse formations ranging from ethno-jazz through hard-bop right to the outer reaches of the avant-garde. At the Viktor Toth Tercette's London gig he proved once more his fantastic sense of dynamics.
Tickets are 2000 forints.
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15.10.2008