Santa Diver was formed by jazz violinist Luca Kézdy and multiinstrumentalist/composer David
Szesztay (on bass) in 2006. The third member of the trio, David Szegő joined in 2015 on drums. The
three instruments and personality maintain a unique and original musical dimension which situated
somewhere in the crossing of jazz, world and free music. There sound is determined by the
unconventional instrumentation (violin-el.bass-drum), the unique and narrative playing of Luca
Kézdy, the colorful and melodic bass lines and the energetic drumming with full of tiny, exciting
happenings. Their fourth album „Blue Horizon" came out in 2020.
Santa Diver has been performing since the October of 2006, since then they have been giving many
concerts in places and festivals like the Chelsea Music Festival (NYC), European Jazz Conference
(Budapest), Voll Damm Festival Jazz Vic (ES), Gaume Jazz Festival (BE) at some other European
Jazz Festivals in Spain, Graz, Slovenia and Slovakia. They’ve released their debut album in 2009
„Sending Ovation”, followed by „Santa Diver” in 2013 and „Deep Diving in 2017”. They love playing
with guests, in 2017 Santa Diver had the opportunity to play with Italian saxophonist Stefano Di
Battista and Luca had the chance to have a duo concert with Chris Potter in New York.