Dear Visitors,

We regret to inform you that the concert is cancelled due to unforeseen reasons. Tickets purchased online will be automatically refunded by InterTicket Kft. Tickets purchased on the spot may be refunded at the BMC Info Desk. Please check our website for further announcements. We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate for your understanding.

Budapest Music Center

Israeli bassist Shay Hazan’s form-breaking band brings music full of pulsating North African rhythms and strong emotions to the Opus Jazz Club. The Tel Aviv-based bassist-compose’s musical roots spread far and wide into the magical realm of Moroccan Gnawa music (Hazan often plays gimbri, the traditional three stringed skin-covered bass lute), the new wave of hip hop, and the 1960's Chicago free jazz and human rights movement. These roots all feed the single organism of the band, with Hazan leading from the bottom, anchoring and propelling the music with a force only a bassist can provide. “Shay’s relationship to North African music is like that of African-American jazz musicians to the blues. Although the compositional solutions come from jazz, the folk music tradition is the basis. Instead of oriental panels, this music is a close, personal synthesis of North African music. Modern jazz that can stay away from the fashion of ethno-crossover with these impulses behind it. The hot and sensual music of the quintet is strong and emotional” - Sándor Silló aptly described the music of the quintet.

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