Kálmán Oláh

Kalman Olah & Piotr Wojtasik Quintet – Mosaics (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 52:26 minutes | 1,95 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hunnia Records

The albums of the Felczak Records series communicate with music, the most universal language, to demonstrate the friendship between the Polish and Hungarian nations, which is nourished by emotions, thoughts and shared values rooted in the historical past. A real specialty of the record is that the listener might be able to guess what the contribution of the Hungarian pianist and that of the Polish trumpet player is. The courageous lines and bends of Wojtasik on the one hand, his rooty melodies that may in the next moment reveal melancholy, and a rich and colourful harmonic foundation laid down with ease avoiding carefully to sound blatant from the hands of Oláh on the other. He may feel the heritage of Bartók and Kodály subconsiously, just like the trumpet player feels Chopin and the folk music of his people, but when they step out together, that results in full-blooded, 21st century jazz.

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