Since the 90s, because of the spread of electronic music trends, it looks like the jazz and live music sidelined, losing popularity, its practitioners are getting fewer opportunities.
In fact, today, the exact opposite is happening. The jazz, and the live music is more and more popular again. The clubs more often open their doors for musicians and host a jam sessions. We can hear live music from more places in the cities where jazz musicians share the stages with other music genre representatives. Their fusion collaborations, jam sessions bring a new energy to the jazz scene as well. They diverse, various colourful jams attract more and more people night by night.
Budapest Jammin’, besides echoing the past, lead the viewers to this varicoloured music scene which shows a new face every time. In the documentary features, among many music, the epic representatives of the Hungarian Jazz scene – Károly Binder, Mihány Borbély, Attila László – the defining musicians of the recent and present days – Lőrinc Barabás, Bálint Bársony, Péter Kaszás Jr., Péter Sárik – as well as other outstanding players in the jam session era.
Our documentary guides you to the back stages of the jam sessions. The speakers introduce to you from multiple angles what creative and receptive experiences are involved in participating in spontaneous music as a musician, or as a listener.