The programme of the Budapest Jazz Festival presents the most important figures of modern jazz as well as a showcase for young talents and new sounds, and aims to have as many joint productions as possible on stage involving the stars of Hungarian and international jazz. The Festival is eight years old this year and this time has decided to place Spanish and Belgian jazz into central focus. The idea came from the rotating presidency of the EU in which Spain will be succeeded by Belgium, followed by Hungary. The Festival opens on September 8th with some hot stuff in the concert hall. Pianist Kálmán Oláh who is turning towards flamenco jazz, the Barcelonan drummer Marc Miralta and the hugely gifted double bass player Mátyás Szandai come together for an exceptionally promising and exciting collaboration with acoustic guitar virtuoso Ferenc Snétberger, Spanish saxophonist Perico Sambeat and iconic Belgian jazz man Steve Houben (also saxophone). In the second half of the opening concert, Belgium’s most famous trumpeter Bert Joris will play Belgian and Hungarian compositions with Hungary’s best known big band, the Modern Art Orchestra.
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