The energetic music of the band of five young musicians called Ég Alatti 5 has been heard by the audience since 2015. Since then, they have performed in many venues in Budapest and the countryside. The backbone of their show is provided by their own compositions, which in their style and momentum mostly evoke the hard-bop and modal jazz music of the ’60s, yet are unique in nature. Sometimes inspired by natural impressions and various folk music, they strive to create their own, organic world of sound. The friendship between the members and the compositions of Udvardi and Baló open up free space for the flow of live music.

The six-member Coltrane Legacy was formed in 2017 on the 50th anniversary of Coltrane's death by the bassist György Orbán, one of the most sought-after musicians in the Hungarian jazz scene. The saxophonist laid modern jazz on a new footing in barely a decade and a half from his death in the mid-1950's to his death in 1967. In his oeuvre, he has penetrated more and more spiritual dimensions and created his musical heritage, which has since affected generations of musicians. György Orbán, an experienced bassist who has gone through many formations, thought that the saxophonist's heritage is best nurtured by creating a band that plays his own compositions inspired by Coltrane's music and new instrumentations of Coltrane's themes - thus continuing the spiritual jazz nowadays. Despite their young age, his partners are all well-known and renowned musicians from Hungary, Sándor Molnár, Sándor Soso Lakatos and Kálmán Oláh Jr. on saxophones, Krisztián Oláh on piano and András Pecek Lakatos on drums.

The music produced and performed by the Hungarian based ensemble Tariqa is simultaneously reminiscent of the proto world-music innovations of John Coltrane’s Africa Brass in the 60s and the 70s futuristic Sufi inspired jazz of the Human Arts Ensemble. Led by Saïd Tichiti originally from the Moroccan Sahara, Tariqa’s ecstatic momentum is firmly based on gnawa drumming and guembri bass lines spiced by rippling carpathian cimbalom, violins and flute. Top this all with Saharian desert blues vocals and horn parts full of urgent urban American howling and Klezmer screams, and the effect is nothing less than 21st century musical bliss. Tariqa’s new CD is a musical breakthrough Bartok, Coltrane and the late Ali Farka Toure would all likely relate to. Blessed and possessed by the powerful spirits that inhabit the Euro-Asian-African crossroads that shaped and continue to shape our destiny – Tariqa swings and rocks hard to a warm universal musical embrace.Darrell Jónsson

Junior Prima Award-winning jazz composer and pianist, Dezső Oláh, born in 1986, is one of Hungary's most talented and promising young musicians. Reflections of Béla Bartók’s Six Romanian Dances, his adaptation of Bartók's well-known piano work, was released in 2016 and was presented with great success in Opus two years ago. On this concert his trio will present one of his latest pieces: the Intermezzo I-VII., which is a cycle composed on each day of a week. In the second part of the concert, they will be joined by the Budapest Bassoon Trio, a group presenting usually classical and contemporary music. First they introduce Carnival of Bassoons, Oláh's new contemporary piece of music. The Budapest Bassoon Trio formed by Bálint Mohai in 2018 with bassoonists József Bánfi and Aladár Tüske, the former artists of the Hungarian State Opera House. The aim of the ensemble is to broaden the woodwind repertoire, including the bassoon repertoire, showing the lesser-known side of the instrument. In addition to performing at a high level of classical music, their mission is to combine jazz and classical music. As a result, they will perform for the first time together with the Dezső Oláh Trio on the stage of the Opus Jazz Club.

The Budapest Turnarounds first appeared as a trio in 2107. The current space-rock, psycho-jazz, experimental instrumental duo line-up consists of two well-known faces of Budapest club life, Márton Sütő and Dávid Szegő, who create an unearthly atmosphere on electric guitars, drums and their most varied effect gadgets. The current LIVE project of the band is a commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, the first successful landing of humans on the moon on the 20th of July, 1969. The band performs dedicated songs and free form improvisation set to a live interactive visual multimedia spectacle. Ethereal melodies, spontaneous action and interaction, space and time bending polyrhythmical grooves; everything to take the audience on an unexpected yet unforgettable four-dimensional journey filled with mysterious emotions and high energy: the ever expanding sound coming from these two musicians exploring together on stage can grow surprisingly large and wide as the night progresses. photo: Verus Villangó facebook.com/TheBudapestTurnarounds instagram.com/thebudapestturnarounds  Moon Landing 50th Anniversary (LIVE 2019) by The Budapest Turnarounds

The fiery, emotional singer Elsa Valle from Cuba, home of frenetic rhythms and divine melodies, is a great favorite of the Hungarian audience. Her band, Afrocando, is made up of well-known musicians on the Hungarian jazz scene, featuring among them Elsa's husband, Gábor Winand, one of Europe's most singular jazz singers, who also plays the keyboards in addition to the saxophone. The virtuoso pianist Béla Szakcsi Lakatos, Jr. and the excellent rhythm section take care of the dense musical texture of the songs. facebook.com/Elsa-Valle-Official 

“Spotted early on as one of the most vibrant hopes of the Hungarian scene, saxophonist Viktor Tóth soon developed his own style influenced strongly by Ornette Coleman. With bass player György Orbán, a pillar of several groups of Béla Szakcsi Lakatos and the famous cimbalom player Miklós Lukács he offers a formula without battery, very open and lyrical, where his warm play makes one think on Lee Konitz. Lukács has a role which could be that of the piano, but the particular timbre of his instrument carries the trio in a muffled atmosphere and his ability to play a rhythmic melody releases the bass, which thus offers brilliant soliloquies. One might think that the cimbalom brings just a "Hungarian" patina to a rather conventional jazz construction; fortunately the always malleable Lukács avoids offering any ‘world’ temptation to Viktor Tóth’s wide range of timbres.”Franpi Barriaux - CitzenJazz After the band's successful album, The Treasure of Eye, the band will release a new record material. Like the previous album, it is characterized by a delicately woven, spiritual spirit that bursts meditively and volcanically.tothviktor.hu 

Bendegúz Varga drummer-composer founded his own formation in 2015. The special two-guitar quintet’s first album called Goldmund was released in 2018, with significant success among audiences and critics alike. The members of the band belong to the forefront of the middle generation of Hungarian jazz. In addition to the founding members (Bendegúz Varga - drums, János Ávéd - saxophone, Márton Fenyvesi - guitar), this time Árpád Oláh Tzumo will join on piano, replacing guitarist Csaba Czirják in the band. Fitting into today’s mainstream jazz credo, the meticulously crafted music is emotionally and emotionally cohesive, and the original compositions leave big opportunity for improvisation. Music with a serious emotional charge can be easily accommodated by even more inexperienced lestener in the jazz genre. The ensemble’s playing well reflects the diverse musical interest of the musicians, their different musical backgrounds, in which their common ground is the langauge of the acoustic jazz. In 2020, Varga Bendegúz is already working on new compositions, on the material of his next album, from which we can certainly get a taste on this concert.

Klára Hajdu is an outstanding singer-songwriter and teacher of Hungarian jazz life. He sang for almost a decade with the popular Fonogram Award-winning Balázs Elemér Group. In 2008, he founded his own quartet, with which he has released two albums that have been highly appreciated by the profession and the audience. Come with me – released in 2013 – features jazz standards, folk song adaptations, and Klara’s own compositions, and the Plays Standards Dedicated to Chet Baker – released in 2015 – is a tribute to legendary jazz trumpet player and singer. On the disc, Chet Baker's compositions and jazz standards he made famous, were played in their own style, in collaboration with the great Hungarian trumpet player, Kornél Fekete-Kovács. The album was nominated for a Fonogram Award in early 2017 in the "Hungarian Jazz Album of the Year" category. In 2019, Gábor Cseke replaced Krisztián Oláh in the role of pianist, and bassist Márton Soós and drummer Marcell Hoff, the founding members of the band, continue to sit in the rhythm section. Klára was also noticed as a songwriter, as her composition You're Gonna Rise, which she orchestrated with Milán Szakonyi, was selected as one of the top thirty by the professional jury of the television show Dal2019. The quartet is currently working on songs for their new album, which is scheduled to be recorded over the summer.

Zita Gereben is an outstanding singer-songwriter of Hungarian music life. She founded her own band in 2009, with whom she has released three albums containing own compositions. After Ready for the sun, which can be classified as jazz, they went to more popular direction with their second album, Our Places, followed by the disc entitled Az én fesztiválom, which contains songs in Hungarian. Their repertoire, which covers a wide range of genres, includes compositions that containe elements of R'n'B, pop, blues, and jazz. During her musical career, Zita Gereben worked with several Hungarian formations, she was a member of Emil.RuleZ! and also contributed to the Gringo Star band, as well as the Modern Art Orchestra, the Transform Quintet, the Random Trip, and the Nagy János Trio. Her band consists of renowned musicians from the Hungarian music scene. The sound world of the formation is significantly shaped by the unique musical world of the musicians, the freedom of their play.

The term Cabane Perchee means ‘tree house’ in Hungarian. For our guitarist, Csaba Palotaï, who lives and works in France, this word gave the starting point for his new duo project with his old fellow musician, drummer Steve Argüelles. "This strange building among the foliage - although a human-made construction - still gives the illusion, that a human is not a competitor of nature, but an integral part of the living world. This romantic, wild mood evokes the childhood as well. It includes the Hungarian novel, Thorn Castle, and the Call of the Wild movie as well, and to some extent the piano pieces of the Microcosm by Bartók" – explained Csaba Palotaï, who explored the same teaching intention behind Bartók's etudes as Uncle Matula tried to pass on to Tutajos the gradual observation of nature in the Thorn Castle. "The word ’Microcosm’ can be interpreted as a series of pieces of different kinds forming a small world; or we can interpret it as 'the world of the little ones, the children" – writes Bartók, and according to Palotaï, these pieces are also examples of everything in an infinitely simple picture of an infinitely complex world. And now, with his fellow musician, he unfolds these musical seeds sprinkled by Bartók in his imaginary tree house. Sometimes it seems like this house was built by natives living in a subtropical forest, and other times it’s a cool mobile house in the garden of a Western European man, where electronics already serves the comfort. Csaba's guitar playing contains some of the African blues effects that hallmarked by the name of Ali Farka Touré or Boubacar Traoré, while Steve, who is also proficient in electronic music, has put together a percussion set consisting of various elements (shaman drum, frost ring, seeds, prepared mandolin, steppe shoes) for this program, which fits well with the dynamics of the acoustic guitar, and which evokes ethnic colors like Moondog’s atmospheric music with its own developed magic percussion instruments. In the intimate, smart, emotional music of Csaba Palotai and Steve Argüelles, cultures talk peacefully. Photo: Vincent Bourre 

Béla Szakcsi Lakatos says that comfort is the greatest enemy of musicians, so he moves out of his comfort zone once again: this time he invited István Grencsó to join him – the "heavyweight" improviser of the Hungarian free music scene for whom the safe musical environment begins where it ends for most musicians. Grencsó's initial fears that Szakcsi would want to play standards with him were soon dispelled when the veteran piano player told him that he was studying Ligeti's Etudes and wanted to create unrestricted music with the harmonization solutions of Ligeti. As a matter of fact, Béla Szakcsi Lakatos has been following István Grencsó's work for a long time, all the way back to when he was a student of György Szabados, whose piano playing was also highly regarded by Szakcsi. The "Improvisation Workshop" of Szakcsi & Grencsó is a music studio where brand new things are born – not only for the audience but also for the musicians. The meeting of the two giants will surely result musical zeniths reminding us of tectonic plate collisions.

.. “a soul trip”.. “dreaming”.. “poetry and tones”.. “beauty”.. That is what her audience say about her music and live performances.  “She immersed in jazz exactly as it should. Accidentally, off the road, honestly. I believe that this girl will leave a trace on the European sky of a new generation of free musicians.” (Tomislav Lovro Pavleka, Kamene priče - jazz apartments). Bára Zmeková is a singer, composer and pianist from Prague, Czech Republic. Her music is blend of folk, jazz and classical spiced with a bit of electronic. Fragile and earnest nature of her songs is balanced by humour and playfulness. With her voice and piano she has ability to take her audience for a soul trip no matter she sings her songs in Czech. Bára released her second album LUNAVES in 2019. It stayed on the top of music charts in Czech Republic for three months and had very good reactions of music specialists in both, Czech and abroad. With her live performance she become a winner of Czech Music Crossroads 2019 and she was nominated for Czech Music Academy Awards Andel in two main categories - Best female artist and Best new artist. For LUNAVES album she also created a remix version with her friends producers from Czechia, Slovakia or Colombia. The album is called LNVS (rmxd) and it was release in June this year. She is coming to the Opus Jazz Club with her great musicians and friends Nina Marinova (violin/vocal), Michal Mihok (accordion) and Viktor Doricak (drums/vocal). LUNAVES by Bára Zmeková

Bettika Bakos is a young singer, composer, student of the LFZE Jazz Department, she also deals with improvisation, free music, theater music, mantra singing, teaches and holds workshops. Her ensemble, the Bettika Quintet, uses elements of jazz, free improvisation, world music and contemporary poetry. Most of the current program consists of her own compositions, included pieces, which are rooted in jazz, interspersed with jazz-poetry or spoken word elements, the rhythm and lyrics of which are based on the works of Hungarian contemporary poets, such as Dezső Tandori, Ede Tarbay, István Bella, István Csukás and Sándor Weöres. The program also includes reworkings world music pieces, mainly Hungarian and gypsy folk music melodies, which bring exciting colors to the concert program with their complex rhythms or lyrical mood. And Bettika's own pieces without lyrics give room for free improvisation and playing with musical frames. Bettika music

The D.A.S. Trio began its work in 2014. The team of young virtuosos aims to combine exciting musical elements and express their feelings in a very special musical language. They basically play jazz-fusion music, but their sound is influenced by the individual musical tastes of each member. The name of the band was formed from the initials of the names of the members. From the beginning, they have competed in a number of music competitions and achieved outstanding results. Despite their young age, they were able to work with such famous performers as János Nagy, Vincent Mascart, Luca Kézdy, Edina Szirtes "Mókus", Péter Lukács "Peta" and Mike Gotthard. In 2015, with the support of the Tamás Cseh Program, they made their first album, which was presented at several festivals in the country (Valley of Arts, Debrecen Jazz and Wine Festival, Szeged Wine Festival, Balatonboglár Jazz Festival, Váci Vigalom, Hungarian Music Expo, MÜPA Jazz Showcase). Since 2017, Ádám has been the bass player of the band, and the songs are mainly composed by Ábel. They give regularly concerts in Budapest and abroad (Romania, Serbia, Austria, Czech Republic). D.A.S. Trio · D.A.S. Trio

The band Szaturma was founded between the Czech and the Slovak borders in 2017. It offers an unusual instrumentation (guitar, saxophone and drums). Its repertoire is predominantly focused on original compositions of all band members, stretching its eclectic style towards variety of musical spaces, such as contemporary jazz, minimalism, grunge, free improvisation, avant-garde or sound-art. So far the band has toured the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Israel playing in different venues such as jazz clubs, festivals of contemporary music or site-specific events.  "The discovery of the Szaturma was a pleasant surprise for me. Their music is fresh, based not only on solid playing skills, but also, and foremost, on creativity of composing. The concept of this Trio ignores both limits of genre categories and the slightly ossified jazz form. The result is a lively and communicative music with considerable portion of improvising, as well as an apparent plan to create a specific mood in every single composition" - wrote Vilém Spilka, musician, artistic director of the JazzFestBrno festival.

One of the charms of Miklós Lukács’s and the Cimbiosis’ musical world: it doesn’t give the listener the facile satisfaction of genre labels. The genres on the Music from the solitude of timeless minutes are no more than posts at the side of the road: they indicate where it’s not worth going. This album contains folk music in traditional form and in Bartókish transfiguration, Gypsy music in the ornamentation, in some places the volcanic energy of rock music erupts, and the entire classical tradition is there too, from Bach through Debussy to Kurtág. The first half of the two-part album is dominated by the metronome-measurable, objective time and familiar musical forms, while in the second part of it Lukács deprives us of our handholds. The last four compositions are dictated by the subjective time, so they melt down like Dali’s clocks, if you try to grab them with intelligence. In the words of one of the greatest Hungarian poet, Dezső Kosztolányi: “the pulsating heart of volatile time”. Based on the booklet text of Gergely FazekasPhoto by Vivien Sarkadi

"One of the most lyrical and poetic jazz saxophonists in our country; that's how we describe saxophonist Ben Sluijs without hesitation. Sluijs has a cast-iron track record as a leader of quartets and was at the top of the Belgian scene for years. He surprised everyone at Jazz Middelheim 2016, when he was accompanied on stage by drummer Dré Pallemaerts, one of the greats in the Belgian jazz landscape, and two exceptional young talents, Bram De Looze and Lennart Heyndels, in his new Ben Sluijs Quartet." (Flagey-december 2017) "Sluijs compositions suggest his personal perspective of the American post-bop legacy, transformed into the more peaceful West European sceneries. His spiritual vein is highlighted in his touching homage to the late Yusef Lateef, Song for Yusef, and the exotic and meditative Mali, sounding like homage to other sonic explorers as Alice Coltrane and Don Cherry. Miles Behind offers a leisured swinging mode and Cell Mates pushes this rhythmic mode even furthe. On both pieces Sluijs alto sax solo reference John Coltrane spiraling attacks. The dreamy, emotional ballads Air Castles and Ice Chrystal even come close to the impressionist-melancholic territories of the ECM school. Beautiful gem." (Eyal Hareuveni-Salt Peanuts.eu-dec. 2018) www.bensluijs.be

"Music is a rhythm, and without rhythm there's no life." Simple words, and yet that was the way Ornette Coleman summed up the reason behind his quest in music: a manifestation of the pure joy of sound and rhythm. And if the music of Ornette Coleman continues to move us today, it's because it drives its roots deep down into the rural blues of America's south, causing the emergence of a free and carefree jazz whose melodies form a vibrant, lyrical celebration of the moment. Ornette Coleman, incidentally, was a musician whose fervent admirers have included great artists of immensely varying styles, from Lou Reed to John Zorn and Leonard Bernstein, or David Cronenberg, Yoko Ono, Thurston Moore, Patti Smith, Claude Nougaro and Pat Metheny, to name only those. Ornette's extremely communicative music, accessible to every ear, has taken on incredible powers of collective jubilation. It’s therefore with a desire to share it and a programme dedicated to this major figure of jazz that the Orchestre National de Jazz - ONJ, under its Artistic Director Frédéric Maurin, has unveiled Dancing in Your Head(s) in spring 2019. Motivated by the desire for people to hear the work of the American saxophonist in a new light, Frédéric Maurin has commissioned arrangements for this brand new programme from composer Fred Pallem, a musician whose secret garden also contains an essential place occupied by Ornette… In the hands of an electric orchestra articulated around powerful horns and a razor-sharp rhythm section — in which varying profiles skilfully mingle among liberated soloists and seasoned orchestral players —, Dancing in Your Head(s) revisits pieces borrowed from Ornette Coleman's different creative periods, but also from other artists in the galaxy of his descendants from Julius Hemphill to Eric Dolphy and Tim Berne, all as free and innovative. With its first programme, the ONJ offers a totally original rereading of this material in favouring amplified instruments, the groove, a festive atmosphere, and trance.

A strong tree has many roots. This year, the Root 70 jazz formation celebrates it's 20th anniversary, which also means that the four membered band – formed by trombonist Nils Wogram, saxophonist Hayden Chisholm, bassist Matt Penman and drummer Jochen Rückert – is one of the most stable formations in jazz history. And in the case of the band, that has remained unchanged from the beginning, all this was not self-evident, as Hayden and Matt are from New Zealand, Jochen is from Germany, and Nils is from Switzerland, so it took a little miracle to meet. They first played together in 1999, which went so well, that Nils Wogram said: "This concentration of persons is something special, we have to do it for a little longer than just this one gig". So they started working together, during which it turned out, that the four musicians, who are extremely strong musically, can turn their differences to their advantage. The team created a dynamic musical image using tension between the musicians, in a good sense. Different perspectives and approaches alternate, this gives their music the spice. The analytical (Nils Wogram), the idea-millionaire (Hayden Chrisholm,) the perfectionist (Jochen Rückert) and the ironic-intellectual (Matt Penman) characters complement each other excellently in this lineup. The light, acoustic, translucent sound world of the formation without a harmonic instrument is preserved by eight records, which were re-issued this year in a complete box with 8 CDS, 1 LP, ubs stick with all videos from tour and studio, sheet music to all albums and a lovely photo book.

The Note Noire is a contemporary Italian jazz quartet, and represents the common musical path of Ruben Chaviano, Roberto Beneventi, Tommaso Papini and Mirco Capecchi, through their own original compositions. These are pieces of music written in complete freedom in a search on their part for modern and cosmopolitan musical forms of expression, by means of the characteristics of instruments that are representative of European traditions such as the violin, the accordion, the guitar and the double bass. Their new album NADIR, under the AlfaMusic/EGEA label, is the invisible point from which to observe the sound of an ensemble that has the classical timbre. The four musicians of which it consists are inevitably attracted by the continuous novelties of the creative panorama, as well as by stylistic experimentations. Active on the musical scene since 2011, the Note Noire musicians have been invited to perform as part of prestigious programmings such as the Royal Albert Hall (GB), the Rhino Jazz Festival (FR), the LongLake Festival (CH), the Piacenza Jazz Festival (IT), the Pisa Jazz Festival (IT), the Milano Django Festival (IT) and the Barga Jazz Festival (IT).

The excellent pianist, Máté Pozsár is recognized mostly as one of the inevitable figures on the Hungarian creative music scene, being member of different groups by István Grencsó, Szilárd Mezei, István Baló or Péter Ajtai. However, being himself not just a fan but even professor in music theory, he has been developing since a couple of years a conceptual compositional method which is based on harmonies and voices inherent in the modal and the polymodal harmonics. He invites to the Opus the third time his close musical friends, to join him in his drumless sextet and realize his slowly building, transparent chamber music, exuberant both in binding terms and in free improvisation.

The young Hungarian saxophonist and composer, Daniel Varga does not abide musical genres. He made himself a name with his virtuoso playing in the colorful experimental indie rock band Moped Loewen but he also nurtures his own quartet, a loose formation playing contemporary jazz rooted both in free and modal music with an eye on lyricism. Having already performed at Opus three times, on this occasion he arrives with his Polish friends, guitarist Piotr Lipowicz and drummer Piotr Budniak, plus his regular Croatian double-bass player, Ivar Krizic. His relationship with the Polish musicians started in 2014 when they were playing tours and gigs around the country, presenting their own music and ideas in different groups and projects (Animal House Project, Piotr Budniak Essential Group, Lipowicz - Budniak MAD Unit).  Dániel Varga studied in Austria under the hands of Julian Arguelles and Ed Partyka. In the past year he has been winning numerous awards in Hungary with his bands (Palace of the Arts Jazz Showcase - special prize, 2nd best band on a Hungarian Talentshow with Moped Loewen, Gábor Újfalusy award for most talented musician in 2018/2019) and also by his compositions for big band (3rd prize on the Hungarian Jazz Composing and Arranging Competition organized by the Hungarian Jazz Federation). Recently he has been invited in to the finals of the prestigious Michael Brecker International Saxophone Competition, which took place in August at the Red Sea Jazz Festial in Eilat, Israel. In 2020, he participated in the Modern Art Orchestra's Masterclass program, where he presented his own compositions and orchestrations to the Hungarian audience. https://www.danielvargamusic.com/ Daniel Varga · Daniel Varga Eastern European Quartet (2019)

"The world is full of rhythm, sound and vibration. The oxygen atoms sound in the major, the blades of grass sing, and everything around us is music" – this is the main idea behind Zoltán Lantos's OpenSource formation debut album, entitled Sonaris, published in 2018, in which the violinist and bandleader also incorporated his passion for the Eastern cultures. Mixing of modern jazz and Indian music, the sound of a traditional musical instrument called bulbul tarang and live electronics, post bop rhythms and bowl frills are natural and self-evident – thanks to Zoltán Lantos' travels in India, during which he gained an in-depth knowledge of this culture. In OpenSource’s music, the violin is heard in an electronic and groove-centric environment. All this is permeated by the meditative minimalism typical of oriental music, which invites the listener into a spiritual dimension. And the rhythm section – complete with a DJ and live electronics – makes this floating almost danceable. 

NoSax NoClar remind us that travelling can still take us into the mystery of the unknown; that is something we should cherish. Julien Stella and Bastien Weeger extend our horizons outwards, through Julien Stella's boundless musical curiosity (Ireland, the Balkans, for example); but also inwards by letting the sound of breath bring us back into our own dreams. In this unusual combination of instruments, the two musicians have no alternative but to be continuously reinventing themselves, and to maintain the energy level needed to keep their breath going, while also exploring the rhythmic, harmonic and timbral possibilities. facebook AJC-Jazzé Croisé · No Sax No Clar - Sandman There is nothing like limitation and restriction to foster inventiveness. Taking short forms, always at a slow or medium tempo, the three musicians of the Kepler Trio, (Maxime Sanchez, piano, Adrien Sanchez, tenor sax, Julien Pontvianne, tenor sax and clarinet) set out to explore timbres, echoes, chimeras, and both natural and artificial resonance. And as they do so, their minimalist approach becomes poetic and reveals its depth. Ultimately the listener is led to focus where song and melody simply overwhelm the senses, and is taken right back to a lost paradise of innocence. facebook website AJC-Jazzé Croisé · Kepler - Juh The concert is being performed as part of the Jazz Migration series established by AJC to support the professional development of new jazz groups.

Nefertiti is about a passion for working on the form of compositions. This quartet of superb players was formed by pianist Delphine Deau in 2013, and her pieces have a compelling dramaturgy. The pulse and the melodic line only emerge after joyous free interchange, frolicking and shadowplay. Saxophonist Camille Maussion is a melodic player who is involved in ‘soundpainting,’ and also collaborates in the fields of dance, theatre and storytelling. He extends Deau’s concept and complements her lyrical playing in an ideal way. Drummer Pierre Demange also works in other art forms, notably the film and circus worlds. His mode of working with the wonderfully flexible Brazilian double bassist Pedro Ivo Ferreira often feels like they have together discovered the secret of perpetual motion. The concert is being performed as part of the Jazz Migration series established by AJC to support the professional development of new jazz groups.