Gábor Gadó and Veronika Harcsa are two artists who are known primarily as jazz musicians, yet their work is increasingly shifting towards classical and contemporary music.

Another step in this direction was their previous album Shekhinah in 2023, and this year the dialogue between classical and jazz musicians continues in the songs of The Language of Flowers.

But while Shekhinah features Gadó's recent compositions with lyrics by Veronika Harcsa, The Language of Flowers brings to life Gadó's compositions from more than two decades ago to lyrics by Eszter Molnár, and revives the brightest era of Hungarian vocal jazz, hallmarked by the name of Gábor Winand.

Between 2002 and 2006, Gadó and Winand released four albums (Corners of My Mind, Agent Spirituel, Different Garden, and Opera Budapest), which have taken their careers to new heights. The Gadó – Harcsa Quintet has selected 11 songs from these albums, but their aim is not to replicate, but to approach these pieces as one would the repertoire of jazz standards or classical songs: as melodies and lyrics that anyone can perform, finding their own voice in them.

Gábor Gadó has been working with BMC Records for a quarter of a century, releasing an incredible number of 25 albums for BMC Records. He couldn't have found a more suitable vocalist partner for reinterpreting the vocal jazz tradition than Veronika Harcsa, who is justly the most popular Hungarian jazz singer in the country and the most recognized one abroad.

In the Gadó – Harcsa Quintet, we find musicians familiar from Shekhinah and Gadó’s other projects: sound magician saxophonist János Ávéd, and the contemporary scene’s prominent cellist Tamás Zétényi add defining colours to the character of the music.

Place: Opus Jazz Club

Address: 1093 Budapest, Mátyás u. 8.