The Wall

yesterday we went out to see Jazzékiel, a band playing jazz-based music with rapping. it didn't really work out as we imagined: there was about half of Budapest's population wanting to get in to Gödör Club...:
however, we didn't panic: instead, we bought a few cans of beer, than settled down right next to the stage. only outside the club... :) but thanks to the not very thick glass wall we could see and hear everything:of course it wasn't only us who listened to the gig outside. it was quite funny when a few young guys recognized some friends of them inside the club and wanted to communicate. like some retards.
'Caaan yooouuu heeeaaar meeeee?
Nooooo?
Whaaaat aaaare yooouuuu uuup toooo laateer?
Whaaaat?
Heeeeee?'
this was the point when we stopped watching them.

After the gig we moved on to a billirad saloon. the place was like a maze. they even put the ground plan of it into the menu.
don't let yourself be fooled! this guy is not as boozy as it seems. even more! :) hehe.
Cheers Gege!anyway, i've got a few more friends who's 'ars poetica' would be best expressed by this photo :)

going home was not less fun than the whole night itself. 6 people for 5 seats. what is the obvious solution? the boot! we put Jani into the back of the car. he seemingly did not object the idea:he was in his elements: he scared the sh*t out of us when a hand appeared behind us from the nothing. then the mean murderer showed himself too. we laughed our heads off.

Flowers

a boring sunday. i'm not in the mood... i bought flowers to cheers myself up.nice isn't it?
anyway, a few shots of whisky would have made it better...

Friday's Szakcsi-Lakatos gig was stunning. solo-play in the first half and Mozart's Piano Concerto in D Major K. 537 “Coronation” with the Dohnányi Orchestra Budafok in the second half. the music was fantastic and the concert hall's acoustics was awesome too. when the audience started singing 'Tavaszi Szel' in the end it was heavenly and misterious too. very good experience.

Benkó Dixieland Band - Living legends

"...One Of The Best Bands Of The World..."
(Ronald Reagan)

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last night's gig was not less memorable than the Juhasz Trio gig. in fact, u can't compare the two gigs, since the former was a club night taking place every week near Raday Street whereas the latter was a proper concert. hence the nature of the performance, yesterday's was a completely different experience: they were playing more freely, sometimes making jokes and not rarely drinking a bit more. :)

this is Sándor Benkó on the clarinet, the band leader

Ivan the Great. on the trombone, beer cans and vocal :)

Zsolti the bassist. i remember a few years ago 'Daddy' (Benkó is only called like this by Ivan :) ) had to remind him constantly to bring more feelings into his play and 'strip' the bass. well, he has no more got to do so, Zsolti's play was absolutely driven by the music and emotions. sometime he also played for the audience, spinning the instruments a few times.

the wind section:
Ivan again.

This artistic photo, and all the others are thanks to Gege who was messing around there all night long with his camera and pissing the audience off. okay okay, he wasn't. the audience was kind and let him taking photos everywhere. after the gig one old guy asked us if we were taking photos for the promo stuff for the Jubileum Concert. hehe... us, professionals. in fact, not a bad idea :)

Vilmos, the pianist. He was fantastic in Duke Ellington's Take The A Train. Such sensitive accords and runs.
new guy behind the drums, don't know him. wasn't bad, but nothing special
for further info on the band visit their official website

Great gig - Juhász Trio

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Oh what a great gig. Juhasz Trio was playing tonight in the Future's House (the previous Millenáris). This is the second time I can say: this was the best gig i've been to for a long time. good, because i'm seeing better and better gigs. the band:

before going there i read a review about them saying that Borlay, the drummer and Papesch, the bassist are playing a much more dynamic music whereas Juhasz, the guitarist and teamleader is a melancholic player, hence their co-operation may be problematic. well, i've never heard a band more harmonic, playing more together.

Gábor Juhász the 'master'


fantastic solos, some mistery, beautiful accords and tunes.

and i've never heard a band with such fabulous individual perfomances. indeed, Borlay's and Papesch's play was as great and full of ideas as the band's music and the songs themselves. i especially enjoyed Borlay's drum-play with his surprising but absolutely apt rythms

and above of this: they enjoyed playing for us too.

Darbucka

yo. as i said we went out on thu with Peter, my cousin. we just selected a random place from a big load of clubs, bars offering live music and i have to tell you that we were lucky. neither the club's name - Darbucka - nor the band's - Carl Orr's Danger Funk - told us anything but both turned out to be great. stunning gig in a nice Arabic athmosphere.

colourful bar. no beer on tap. not good not good. very good white wine though...

the source of noises. best jazz music i've heard for a long time (i haven't been to too many gigs recently...)

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a proper Photo Artist has got to take pics with her own camera. even if it is a mobile phone... :)

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T(w)onight(s)

yo. i was on this flamenco-jazz gig last night. Juan Carmona, Mino Cinelu, Dés László and Balázs József. Great musicians, great music. they were amazing individually but i missed some kind of cooperation between them. and i also missed the bass. i could have imagined a double bass or sth... anyway, it was still fantastic, partly due to the location. it was organized in the national concert hall that is to be found in the so called palace of arts. this concert hall is one of the most modern ones probably in the whole world. amazing sounding.

tonight we've watched the Departed. Best film i've seen for a long time!! 8.5 on imdb. the new Scorsese film. a bit of godfather feeling, a bit of tarantino, good casting and acting. and yes! no stupid hollywoodian happy end. good film. then i met my other best friend, Mape, who's doing his phd now. he's doing well, just moved in into his new flat that is 10 mins walk away from mine. slowly all my friends will move into this area :)