2019 Highlight: Astonishing Tcha Limberger documentary

Directed by Dolma’s Daughters film maker Ádám Miklós and written by the London based Hungarian Yvonne Bauer A Magyar Nóta: Belga Mestere literally 'Belgian Master of Hungarian Song' is a truly remarkable and quite moving insight about the music and …

Published: 12 Nov 2019. Updated: 3 years.

Directed by Dolma’s Daughters film maker Ádám Miklós and written by the London based Hungarian Yvonne Bauer A Magyar Nóta: Belga Mestere literally 'Belgian Master of Hungarian Song' is a truly remarkable and quite moving insight about the music and life of the extraordinary violinist Tcha Limberger, a blind violin virtuoso from Belgium who discovers traditional Hungarian music and moves to Hungary to master it.

Limberger fell in love with the long forgotten Hungarian nóta style and made it his mission to introduce it to the world. The film makers ask the questions why does he want to learn a music genre that has almost been forgotten by Hungarians; and why does he leave the security of his Belgian home to live in a Transylvanian village?

Shot in Hungary, Transylvania and Belgium the sound quality is excellent and the Transylvanian scenes are especially very beautifully filmed, the quality of the light is stunning: a scene towards the end of the film has a gathering of fiddlers that is epic and life affirming.

Responding to marlbank’s comment that Limberger is up there with Roby Lakatos no less, writer Yvonne Bauer says: “Roby Lakatos himself is of the best opinion on Tcha! He said that Tcha follows in the footsteps of the great old masters in that he plays according to the most ancient rules, which few other musicians do these days. All of them try to sound more modern, just like Roby himself.”

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Lucky Peterson: 'Eat the Blues'

Lucky Peterson, one of the greatest bluesicians on the planet, talks about Jimmy Reed in a promo video for 50 – Just Warming Up released by the folks at French label Jazz Village recently. Lucky, a regular visitor to Ireland and the UK, is playing …

Published: 12 Nov 2019. Updated: 3 years.

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Lucky Peterson, one of the greatest bluesicians on the planet, talks about Jimmy Reed in a promo video for 50 – Just Warming Up released by the folks at French label Jazz Village recently. Lucky, a regular visitor to Ireland and the UK, is playing a decent run of mainly French dates this autumn running through the winter and into the spring next year. The album is the best blues thing to come along this year that all us jazz folks can dig too.