Music and artists
József Radics
He was born into a real family of musicians in 1975 in Budapest and has been playing music since age 4. He first learned the violin, then switched to the double bass studying from his master, János Egri. He has been a band musician since high school; initially, he appeared with Béla Szakcsi Lakatos, Róbert Szakcsi Lakatos, Béla Szakcsi Lakatos Jr and Kálmán Oláh. He won a Fonogram award with the Sunshine Jazz formation. He has toured Scandinavia and participated in several music projects. He appeared on Attila Dolhai's Gyspyswing production and in the Lil’america show of Csipa from Hooligans. He is currently a member of the Elemér Balázs trio and plays in Fatima's band.
Károly Gáspár
The pianist, Károly Gáspár, is a leading figure in the Hungarian jazz scene. He regularly performs at Hungarian and foreign festivals, clubs, and other venues of the genre with his trio and other formations. So far, he has released four albums (three trio albums and one solo piano album), two of which ("The Outsider" and "Salvation") have been nominated for Fonogram awards. He has won several Jazz Ensemble of the Year awards with his trio and Jazz Pianist of the Year awards individually. You can listen to him perform at the Mezzo Music Restaurant every Wednesday and Saturday from 19:00 to 22:00, where, in addition to jazz, he also plays beautiful Hungarian hits and well-known film scores.
Zoltán Pintér
Zoltan Pinter was born in 1970 in Budapest. At the age of 3 he started to play the piano, and when he turned 5, he already won his first piano contest, but not the last – he also won the Bela Bartok Centenary Piano Contest in 1981, which is a reputed event in the Hungarian music scene. His passion for jazz evolved from the early years, his main influencers were Lorantne Schichtanz and Attila Garay
Péter Román
Peter Roman was born in 1949, and graduated in 1973 as a jazz-percussionist, tutored by Gyula Kovacs. He has been playing in our restaurant for very long years; sometimes he’s bringing one of his friends of students to jam around…
Gábor Rácz
„The best jazz pianist amongst mechanical engineers, and the best mechanical engineer amongst the jazz pianists” – as rumors say… Gabor planned the restaurants air conditioning and heating system. One day he sat by the freshly unwrapped Roland piano during the renovations, and entertained spontaneously the people doing the wallpapers and paintworks. We made him stay with us every Thursday, to entertain you with light jazz standards, accompanied with a decent dinner. What else could we ask for?!