06. September 2007. - 09. September - -

The Debrecen Jazz Days looks back on a history of 36 years.

WHERE JAZZ IS ALWAYS IN

Starting out from the south of the United States, jazz used to be the music of protest but by today it has become the international synthetic folk music of the 20th and the 21st centuries. The inclusion of the Debrecen Jazz Festival among the prestigious events of this genre can be attributed not only to the list of high-quality international celebrities that appear on the stage but also to the special atmosphere that has evolved at Lake Békás in the city's Nagyerdõ district. Jazz is said to be in fashion again, but it has constantly been in for 36 years now in Debrecen since the first festival was held. One of the largest jazz festivals in Central and Eastern Europe will feature concerts by international as well as internationally known Hungarian musicians and singers. The performers include Tomasz Stanko, a living legend of jazz, often called as the Polish Miles Davis, the Adam Pieronczyk Trio, which produces unmistakable music with tenor and soprano saxophones, the Colors, and Krzysztof ?ciera?ski and his band. The Hungarian "team" consists of Djabe, the country's best jazz-world band, the Debrecen Jazz Group, the local champion of the music, and the Zakar Trio, which plays mainstream jazz.

Debrecen Jazz Festival
Nagyerdõ (Lake Békás)
6-9 September

PROGRAMMES

6th September (Thursday), Baltazár Dezső Square

18.00 Nalanda (H) - fusion jazz

19.30 Rgg Trio (PL)

21.00 Fusio Group (H) - traditional and progressive

Entrance is free!

7th September (Friday), Kossuth Square

Kossuth Square:

15.00 Zakar Trio+ (H) - mainstream jazz

Entrance is free!

Baltazár Dezső Square

17.00 Ektár (H) - contemporary

18.00 Márkus Norbert (H) - focus is on the piano

19.00 East Side Jazz Company (H) - Eastern-European

Entrance is free!

Kölcsey Convention Center - Grand Hall

20.30 Adam Pieronczyk Trio (PL) - focus is on the saxophone

21.45 Djabe (H) - world fusion jazz

Entrance fee: 1800 HUF

You have the possibility to buy a season ticket for the two concerts held in the Kölcsey Convention Center on 7th and 8th September for the price of 3000 HUF!!!

Orange Jazz Club

23.00 Debrecen Jazz Group

Entrance fee: 600 HUF

Unplugged Jazz Club

23.00 Jazzprecedens (H)

Entrance fee: 600 HUF

8th September (Saturday)

Kossuth Square

15.00 Trio Minimal (H) - colourful rhythms

Entrance is free!

Baltazár Dezső Square 

17.00 ÜssDob (H) - Tommy Vig and his friends

18.15 Gonda János (H) - focus is on the piano

19.00 László Attila Band (H) - organic jazz

Entrance is free!

Kölcsey Convention Center - Grand Hall

20.30 Colors (PL) - Krzysztof Scieranski and his band

21.45 Tomasz Stanko Quartet (PL) - "the Polish Miles Davis" and his band

Entrance fee: 1800 HUF

You have the possibility to buy a season ticket for the two concerts held in the Kölcsey Convention Center on 7th and 8th September for the price of 3000 HUF!!!

Orange Jazz Club

23.00 Corneliu Tutu Band (H) - latin, funky, pop and jazz

Unplugged Jazz Club

23.00 Little Jazz Band (H) - swing 

Entrance fee: 600 HUF

9th September (Sunday), Baltazár Dezső Square

11.00 Feketeréz Masír Band (H) - African-American jazz and blues

12.45 Prowizorka Jazz Band (PL) - swing and dixieland

14.00 Debrecen Dixieland Jazz Band + Nagy Iván (H) - dixieland and modern jazz

Entrance is free!

Ticket offices: Kölcsey Convention Center, Apolló Cinema, Tourinform