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Martien Oster
After his studies in the US. and in the course of 35 years, Martien performed and recorded with a variety of outstanding Jazz players: Monty Alexander, Red Holloway, Diana Krall (her first record!) and Dr. Lonnie Smith. In 2016 he toured Europe with legend Larry Coryell who described Martien’s playing as intelligent and soulful guitarist. In 2019 hammond organ player Mike le Donne and Vincent Herring joined Martien for a new edition of ‘Original Grooves’ playing the major clubs in Germany and Holland. Martien’s style of playing is clearly rooted in the Jazz tradition but at the same time he is always looking for adventure!
Géza Jónás
is one of the best known bass players in the Hungarian jazz community. His passion for music came from his musical family. He started playing jazz at a very young age. In 2021 he won a very prestigious competition called Pege Aladár Double Bass Competiton, and got a special award too. He is constantly playing with the biggest names in the jazz community, such as Tzumo Árpád, Szakcsi Lakatos Béla, Bolla Gábor, Tony Lakatos, Gyárfás István, and other wonderful jazz musicians.
Joris Dudli
Besides being a member of the Vienna Art Orchestra and the Art Farmer Quintet for many years, Joris recorded and performed with many of the greatest jazz artists of this time: Johnny Griffin, Joe Henderson, Benny Golson, Sal Nistico, Curtis Fuller, Chico Freeman, Benny Bailey, Jermey Pelt, Fritz Pauer, Joe Zawinul, Tom Harell, Eddie Henderson, Dave Kikoski, Joe Lovano, Harold Mabern, Eric Alexander and many others. After moving to New York in 1986, he started a very fruitful collaboration with alto saxophone player Vincent Herring that became his musical main focus and has been successful to this day.
Áron Tálas
is a prominent member of the Hungarian jazz scene. He studied jazz-piano and jazz- drums at the Franz Liszt University in Budapest. As a leader he released two albums (Áron Tálas Trio), and their second album “Little Beggar” became the “Jazz Album of the Year” in Hungary (2018 Gramofon magazine). He had the opportunity to play with Dave Liebman, Ben Monder, Niels-Petter Molvaer, Lew Tabackin, Rossanno Sportiello among others. In 2015 he got into the finals of the Montreux jazz-piano competition. Áron Tálas is the accompanist teacher of the Jazz-singing department at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. He is also a guest jazz drum teacher at the Kodolányi János University. He is a jazz-piano teacher of the Béla Bartók Secondary School of Music, Budapest.
