Quiet Times Szakcsi Jr.

• 1 Where Is Love Delayed 05:02
• 2 Romamor 09:07
• 3 Mixture 10:17
• 4 Utopia 06:53
• 5 February Love 04:46
• 6 Piano Concerto No. 22 in E-Flat Major, K. 482, II. Andante 08:16
• 7 Just Open Your Heart 03:23
• Total Runtime 47:44

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On this album, I tried to express through sounds the influences that have affected me from childhood to the present day.

Once I asked my father to transcribe a two-handed standard as a classical piece. He didn’t really want to, but my mother insisted, so he did it anyway, and then he told me: Look through the sheet music, then forget it and play it the way you think it should be played.

That's what I tried to do on this album: play the way I think it should be played, accepting the uncertainty of how it would go. I hadn't prepared for the pieces at all, and I was a bit anxious about it, but it made the result more natural.

Szakcsi Jr., Steinway Model D Concert Grand Piano, Hamburg

Szakcsi Jr.
Following in the footsteps of his father, Béla Szakcsi Lakatos, he also chose to play the piano. He studied at the jazz department of the Béla Bartók Conservatory of Music, Budapest.

Szakcsi Jr is undoubtedly one of the most outstanding pianists on the Hungarian jazz scene, well-known for his sophisticated and elegant performances. He has performed with many prominent jazz musicians, like Aladár Pege, Tony Lakatos, Rick Margitza, Jean Toussaint, Palle Daniellson, Ed Thigpen, Ravi Coltrane, Jack DeJohnette, John Patitucci, Lew Taback or Martin Drew.

He is a member of numerous bands and has his own ensembles, Szakcsi Jr. Trio, Szakcsi Jr. Quartet, and Szakcsi Jr. Renaissance. He is a regular performer at Hungarian and international festivals with his bands or as a soloist.

He is teaching in two different institutions as a jazz instructor.

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