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Szakcsi Jr. Trio: Easy To Love (hu) – Album Debut at Opus Jazz Club
Courtesy of BMC - Opus Jazz Club | Posted on February 25, 2023
When
Fri, March 31, 2023
20:00
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Featuring:
Béla Szakcsi Lakatos Jr. - piano
Krisztián Lakatos Pecek - double bass
Elemér Balázs - drums
The trio has been performing for 15 years. Szakcsi Jr. and Elemér Balázs formed the band as childhood friends, having played together since 1998. As a young talent, they invited Krisztián Pecek Lakatos, who had already burst onto the Hungarian jazz scene a few years earlier, to play bass before their first album Psalms was released in 2008.
Their second trio album, released at the end of 2022, was a long time coming. The album contains two original songs and jazz standards, but as Szakcsi Jr. puts it, the theme is just a pretext, the point is the musical conversation, as the trio plays acoustic modern jazz, respecting the traditions of the genre....