Harmónia Jazz Workshop: Szőke Niki Quintet at Budapest Jazz Club

NIKOLETTA SZŐKE’s
TRIBUTE TO JAZZ QUEENS
feat. KORNÉL FEKETE-KOVÁCS
Songstress NIKI SZŐKE, the foremost singing star on the Hungarian jazz scene pays tribute to her favourite singers. Niki is one of the very few who is not only adored by the audience but by her rivals too. In view of that, it’s not surprising that in 2005 she walked away with the first prize and the audience prize from the vocalists’ world competition at the 2005 Montreux International Jazz Festival. She brought the house down in New York, London and especially in Japan where she sold seven albums by the thousands! In 2010 she performed with Bobby McFerrin in Budapest. In recent years she has made her mark on the pop scene as well. In 2024 readers of Hungary’s most read jazz forum, Magyar Jazz.hu voted her Jazz Singer of The Year. For this special gig, she will be joined by trumpet- and fluegelhorn player, KORNÉL FEKETE-KOVÁCS who has been voted by the same readership to be the first on his instruments, but also as a bandleader and arranger as well. She’ll be accompanied on the piano by the new star of the keyboard, ATTILA FARKAS. On bass we’ll have Niki’s husband, JÓZSEF HORVÁTH BARCZA, one of the best and most interesting players in this country which is teeming anyway with virtuoso bassists. Invaluable support will be given on the drums by one of the top exponents of his instrument in Hungary, LÁSZLÓ CSÍZI....

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NIKOLETTA SZŐKE’s
TRIBUTE TO JAZZ QUEENS
feat. KORNÉL FEKETE-KOVÁCS
Songstress NIKI SZŐKE, the foremost singing star on the Hungarian jazz scene pays tribute to her favourite singers. Niki is one of the very few who is not only adored by the audience but by her rivals too. In view of that, it’s not surprising that in 2005 she walked away with the first prize and the audience prize from the vocalists’ world competition at the 2005 Montreux International Jazz Festival. She brought the house down in New York, London and especially in Japan where she sold seven albums by the thousands! In 2010 she performed with Bobby McFerrin in Budapest. In recent years she has made her mark on the pop scene as well. In 2024 readers of Hungary’s most read jazz forum, Magyar Jazz.hu voted her Jazz Singer of The Year. For this special gig, she will be joined by trumpet- and fluegelhorn player, KORNÉL FEKETE-KOVÁCS who has been voted by the same readership to be the first on his instruments, but also as a bandleader and arranger as well. She’ll be accompanied on the piano by the new star of the keyboard, ATTILA FARKAS. On bass we’ll have Niki’s husband, JÓZSEF HORVÁTH BARCZA, one of the best and most interesting players in this country which is teeming anyway with virtuoso bassists. Invaluable support will be given on the drums by one of the top exponents of his instrument in Hungary, LÁSZLÓ CSÍZI.

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