Harmonia Work Shop #16: Tzumo-pluto Quarantine Concert at Budapest Jazz Club

THIS WILL BE OUR LAST LIVE QUARANTINE CONCERT AS THE CLUBS HAVE OPENED IN HUNGARY!
Artisjus award-winning pianist-keyboard player-drummer and composer. ÁRPÁD ‘TZUMO’ OLÁH is one of the most versatile musicians on the Hungarian jazz scene. Having studied at the Berklee School of Music he was chosen out of several hundred applicants for the Thelonious Monk Institute where he had the chance to play with such jazz giants as Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter and Terence Blanchard. In September 2001 at the Jazz Hoeilaart International Europa competition his group won all the major prizes and Tzumo himself was voted best European soloist. In 2013 at a German-Hungarian inter-club festival in Berlin at the explicit request of world-famous American vibraphonist, David Friedman Tzumo teamed up with him. His music is characterized by its freshness and relentless search for innovation. He is not afraid to incorporate other genres in his playing, but harmony is always present in his compositions. His latest band is So-La-Ti but he also plays in numerous other formations....

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THIS WILL BE OUR LAST LIVE QUARANTINE CONCERT AS THE CLUBS HAVE OPENED IN HUNGARY!
Artisjus award-winning pianist-keyboard player-drummer and composer. ÁRPÁD ‘TZUMO’ OLÁH is one of the most versatile musicians on the Hungarian jazz scene. Having studied at the Berklee School of Music he was chosen out of several hundred applicants for the Thelonious Monk Institute where he had the chance to play with such jazz giants as Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter and Terence Blanchard. In September 2001 at the Jazz Hoeilaart International Europa competition his group won all the major prizes and Tzumo himself was voted best European soloist. In 2013 at a German-Hungarian inter-club festival in Berlin at the explicit request of world-famous American vibraphonist, David Friedman Tzumo teamed up with him. His music is characterized by its freshness and relentless search for innovation. He is not afraid to incorporate other genres in his playing, but harmony is always present in his compositions. His latest band is So-La-Ti but he also plays in numerous other formations.
Virtuoso bass- and bass guitar player JÓZSEF ‘PLUTO’ HORVÁTH started to play the double bass at the age of 10. He had his baptism of fire in the band of one of the grand old men of Hungarian jazz, Jenő ‘Csibe’ Balogh. With his young friends he went on to form Trio Heaven that won first prize at the 1998 MAY Jazz Competition. Two years later Tzumo invited him to play in his band with which he was voted best bass player at the Jazz Hoeilaart International Europa competition. He has played with such world stars as Tony Lakatos, Chico Freeman, John Pattitucci and Liane Carroll.

Árpád Oláh Tzumo - piano
József Horváth Pluto - bass guitar

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