Name: Joe Fonda's Eastern Boundary Quartet (NYC/Hungary) with Business Pants at Bantha Tea Bar
Start: 2026-03-01T19:30:00-05:00
Location: Bantha Tea Bar

$Joe Fonda's Eastern Boundary Quartet (NYC\/Hungary) with Business Pants at Bantha Tea Bar$

Sun Mar 1. 7:30 pm. All ages welcome. $20 advance, $25 door.
Bantha Tea Bar, 5002 Penn Avenue, Friendship/Garfield.
Tickets on sale: (no service charge) Jerry's Records (Sq Hill), Caliban Books (Oakland), Vinyl Remains (Mt Lebanon), Government Center Records (North Side), and Pleasant Dreams Records (Polish Hill).
from New York City and Budapest, Hungary
JOE FONDA'S EASTERN BOUNDARY QUARTET
https://michaeljefrystevens.com/eastern-boundary-quartet
Joe Fonda - bass. Michael Jefry Stevens - piano. Mihaly Borbely - saxophone. Balazs Bagyi - drums.
The Hungarians' tour is sponsored by Nemzeti Kulturalis Alap
and Hangfoglaló (Könnyűzene Támogató Program).
The EASTERN BOUNDARY Quartet is a collaborative quartet featuring the Hungarian master musicians drummer Balazs Bagyi and saxophonist Mihaly Borbely, and the long-standing bass/piano partnership of New York City bassist Joe Fonda and pianist Michael Jefry Stevens (co-leaders of the Fonda/Stevens Group and Conference Call). Since 2007 the quartet has toured Europe and the United States numerous times. The Quartet will be touring the Eastern United States in February/March of 2026. The group has released four CDs.
The group uses Hungarian folk rhythms and melodies in combination with jazz harmonies and rhythms to form an original “hybrid” improvised music.
The Eastern Boundary Quartet performs original music by all members of the group. The band was formed with the imagination of connecting two worlds of the jazz scene today. This unique collaboration is a mixture of avant-garde jazz and ethnic music from Hungary, forming a cultural bridge between the USA and Eastern Europe. This bridge is made of talent, respect, brotherhood and friendship, built by the common language of jazz and improvised music.