Ágnes Lakatos is one of the best-known Hungarian jazz singers, teaching jazz singing at the Liszt Ferenc Music Academy and at the Bartók Béla Music Secondary School. She has been featured on quite many albums while Covered by frost, her first release with her own quartet, came out in 2000. As singer of the East Side Jazz Company, she is heard on two albums – Bora (2003) and Fata Morgana (2006).

Tibor Csuhaj Barna teaches jazz bass at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, while at the jazz department of the Bartók Béla Music Secondary School he's teaching bass, double bass and orchestral practice. He is a member of several groups, has worked on more than 30 albums as a double bass player, being composer and arranger of six of them.

Voice and Bass, the duo of the singer and the double bass player, has released two albums, Voice and Bass (2008) and Into the Groove (2013), comprised mostly of original compositions. The duo played concerts with the outstanding Israeli pianist, Ari Erev, in the spring of 2015 and 2016 in Budapest, followed by concerts in Israel in the fall of 2016. Their fruitful music collaboration is is to be continued now at the Opus Jazz Club.

The music of pianist and composer Ari Erev blends a deep classical touch, producing an intimate, delicate and emotional style which is inspired by pianists such as Bill Evans, Kenny Barron and Fred Hersch, with an energetic, latin-oriented and rhythmic drive, such as those found with pianists Michel Camilo and Michell Petrucciani, to produce a mature voice of his own.

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