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I finally got to hear the Váczi Dániel Trio. last Thursday on the a38 concert boat. Playing together since 2001, the trio serves up the meandering compositions of alto and soprano saxophonist Dániel Váczi. Balázs Horváth on double bass, and Zsolt Sárvári Kovács plays drums, adding colro with a few percussion instruments. They have one CD on Periferic Recods, and it sounds pretty much the same as their concert - so if you like, you will undoubtedly like the other.

To my ears, some of their compositions - such as Csengő - work better in concert than on the CD. In concert, Kovács’ bell, used to punctuate slightly modified, yet repetetive phrases, comes off as entertaining, whereas on the CD, the pacing is a bit too slow for my taste.
The CD is not quite a year old, so perhaps they have refined their playing since recording it.

I like their philosophy:
“And to know the science of music is nothing else than this - to know how all things are ordered,
and how God’s design has assigned each to its place; for the ordered system in which each
and all by the supreme Artist’s skill are wrought together into a single whole yields a divinely musical harmony, sweet and true beyond all melodious sounds.”
(Hermes Trismegistus)