On January 29
Budapest Music Center
is offering an unforgettable musical experience. Taking the stage this time are Grammy Award-winning
Frank London
and his fellow musicians, that is
The Glass House Project
.
Glass House does not have a familiar ring to it in Hungary, but the individual band members are well known. The band’s leader is Grammy Award-winning Frank London, who’s performed several times in Hungary. Guitarist
Aram Bajakian
may be familiar from
Lou Reed
and
Diane Krall
gigs. Argenitian
Pablo Aslan
is an outstandingly talented bass player in the
ethno jazz
genre,
Yoni Halévy
is an excellent jazz drummer from Israel, and violinist
Jake Shulman Ment
is a New York native addicted to Hungarian, Romanian, Roma and Eastern European Jewish music. Three top-notch Hungarian musicians have joined the group, founded last spring in New York, and they will play together once again after more than six months: dulcimer virtuoso
Miklós Lukács
, who is on his way to world fame for sure, world music performer
Edina Mókus Szirtes
and
Béla Ágoston
, a natural in everything from jazz, ethno and all experimental genres.




The band has put together its set list with the aim to explore the Hungarian
Jewish musical tradition
is a broader sense, under the leadership of Frank London and Zita Vadász, the New York curator of the Balassi Institute, based on the guidelines of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences’ Institute for Musicology, Bob Cohen, Ferenc Kiss and other experts. Folk and urban songs, cantor songs and operetta are all featured in the program, as are some of their original songs, which go surprisingly harmoniously with the traditional melodies.