Béla Szakcsi Lakatos started playing the piano at age nine dreaming that he would become a famous composer and an outstanding interpreter of classical music. However, while he attended the Béla Bartók Conservatory, he got acquainted with jazz, and this experience was profound enough to divert him from further classical studies. The primary scene for jazz in Hungary in the 1950s and 1960s was in the world of entertainment and catering, and Hungary’s most accomplished jazz musicians played in this circle, among them Andor Kovács guitarist.

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