Stolen Tears Szakcsi Jr. Trio

• 1Along Came Betty06:29
• 2Elisabeth 06:37
• 3Silhouette 03:57
• 4I Hear a Rhapsody 07:12
• 5Stolen Tears 04:42
• 6I’ll Close My Eyes 04:28
• 7How About You 07:12
• 8Epilogue (Dedicated to my Father Szakcsi)04:49
• Total Runtime45:26

Info for Stolen Tears

If I didn’t know them, I would still feel, listening to this album, that they are good friends in private life – not “just” colleagues – who know each other’s thoughts and feelings and pay maximum attention to each other’s every musical and human emotion. The heart and soul are also very much in evidence. As the way the themes are played and shaped in each case brings out their beauty and sentimentality.

Szakcsi Jr.’s textbook, beautiful strumming, captivating “intros”, uplifting harmonies and improvisations captivate the listener. They have everything that makes us jazz lovers! The subtlety and tastefulness as well as the swinging, the excellent “time” or the “supreme” level of melodic development.

Krisztián and Elemér are a tightly knit, world-class rhythm section who, among other traits, are masters of the mainstream. They accompany with full attention to the soloist, in a way that even inspires Béla to a great extent. They do all this with the utmost love and humility, as the goal is the pinnacle of chamber music performance, which these wonderful artists achieve!

Of course, they also show us their virtuosity through their solos (too), and the swing feeling is tight yet airy, something that every soloist in the world craves.

Szakcsi Jr. Trio:
Bela Szakcsi Jr, piano
Krisztian Pecek Lakatos, double bass
Elemer Balazs, drums

Szakcsi Jr. Trio
The members of the trio are internationally renowned, prominent representatives of the Hungarian jazz middle-age class, and their playing style has all the characteristics of original, unadulterated, chamber jazz. Following in his father's footsteps, Szakcsi Jr. mastered the tricks of jazz piano playing at an early age, and his playing style, rooted in bebop, can really flourish in the traditional piano-bass-drums line-up.

They have already performed with many famous European and American jazz musicians such as John Patitucci, Jack DeJohnette, Ed Thigpen, Ravi Coltrane, Jean Toussaint, Palle Daniellson, Tony Lakatos, Pat Metheny, Mornington Lockett.

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