The music of András Dés Trio has no truck with distinctions between genres, while it successfully manages to eschew the congenital defects often resulting from the fusing of genres; it continually seeks for the new, but through the use of familiar musical elements it creates a comfortable acoustic homeliness for the listener; it radiates enthusiasm, and even in its most serious moments it has a message for us: there is nothing more marvellous than music. It takes its inspiration from a variety of sources, both traditional and non-traditional. Look for jazz and you won’t find it. But if you allow the timbral suggestibility of the music to percolate, you will enjoy a rich tapestry of entwining voices, sound-worlds, and musical horizons. “The creativity of the musicians is so strong that we don’t see what else could be added to this orchestral trio. Finely crafted guitars mix with the countless percussions of András Dés, whom his sons call perhaps the worst singer in the world, but who turns out to be one of the most inventive percussionists of today, and not only in Hungary. His research is based on the melody, and all is a pretense to emphasize the notes of the guitars. The trio’s symphony lies between the autocracy of classical music and the anarchy of free jazz, somewhere where an underlying framework, suggested and not limited, almost watermarked, offers a space for exchange, listening, and self-expression. In a totally free and open approach, the music resounds as evidence, a harmony rises slowly to hatch the idea of ​​tolerance, dear to the composer.” Raphaël Benoit, Citizenjazz

The modern mainstream group, Equinox, has performed at many jazz festivals both in Hungary and abroad. Their repertoire, comprised of compositions by Ferenc Erkel Award-winning composer and leader Tibor Márkus, is characterized by the use of modern compositional elements yet preserving melodiousness and receptibility. The group made their first album in 2004, with their brand new release, Through the Time, they are celebrating their 25th anniversary. The CD features along with Tibor Márkus and the current lineup also founding members - Imre Héder, Linda Kovács and Martina Király - as well. On the present Anniversary Album Debut Concert at Opus Jazz Club Equinox Septet’s special guest will be the leading Hungarian jazz musician, guitarist Gábor Juhász, who often performs on the group’s albums and concerts. facebook.com/markustiborequinox 

Herbie Hancock apprentice Árpád Tzumo is one of the most versatile composers and keyboard players in Hungary who, both with his own formation SoLaTi, and as a regular member of a numerous groups, regularly performs at clubs and festivals both at home and abroad. This evening, however, he is introducing himself from a completely new side, since for the second time after a sold-out first concert in the BJC, he plays the drums instead of the keys. Tzumo's father was a well-known drummer, who worked with the legendary Attila Garay, among others, so it is hardly surprising that in his childhood Árpád was constantly “drumming around” at home, as he puts it. However, of course not neglecting the keys, he has begun recently to deal quite seriously with drumming. The result is Tzumo Drums Band, his newly formed quartet with well-known musicians of the Hungarian scene, playing a repertoire comprised mostly of Tzumo's originals.