BG 5 Bille Gergő Quintet feat. Mihály Borbély A Zeneakadémia saját szervezésű programja

The trumpet and flugelhorn player, who is occasionally heard on the cornet as well, not only heads up his own band but he is also a regular guest soloist with the Balogh Tamás Quartet and has appeared alongside Elsa Valle and the Gábor Winand quartet. However, Gergő Bille, talented both as a composer and performer, really feels at home with BG5. The band launched in 2013 at the Liszt Academy, and since 2014 the five of them – including Márton Almássy, Bence Bécsy, Márk Miskolczi and Ágoston Szabó Sipos – are regulars on the Budapest jazz scene. The start-up band follows one of the basic line-ups of bebop and post-bop (trumpet, tenor saxophone, guitar, bass, drums), although their music styles range far beyond these trends: they are into groove-based music, funk, hiphop, drum and bass, they are attracted to Afro-Cuban rhythms; and they don’t shy away from experimentation along avant-garde jazz lines either. The vast majority of their broad repertoire comprises their own compositions.