Results for "Rafal Mazur"

Rafal Mazur

Born: June 17, 1971

Rafal Mazur's involvement with music began in his youth with violoncello studies in Krakow. He switched to bass guitar in the late 1980's. Since 2000 he has played an acoustic bass guitar built to his own specifications by luthier Jerzy Wysocki. He has developed an advanced and individual approach to his instrument, and to improvisation in general, in which sonority, extended technique and gesture combine effortlessly in performance. He has taken an important role in Kraków to support young artists and improvised music. A founder of the ImproArt studio of improvisation, he has performed jazz and improvised music in clubs and festivals across Poland and Europe, and in China, South Korea and Israel

Joëlle Léandre: Beauty/Resistance

by Neri Pollastri
May 12, 2023

Maestra e icona dell'improvvisazione europea, Joëlle Léandre è un'artista non facile da incontrare nei festival nostrani, forse per la sua irriducibilità alle etichette con le quali si è soliti catalogare i musicisti, forse perchè autrice sempre di una musica senza compromessi. Prezioso perciò questo cofanetto edito nel 2021, anno del suo settantesimo compleanno, dalla coraggiosa label ...

Beauty/Resistance

Label: NotTwo Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: CD #1: I; II. CD #2: I; II. CD #3: I; II; III; IV; V.

The Pandemic Sessions: Solos, Pt. 1

by Mark Corroto
May 1, 2021

Part 1 | Part 2 The entire world was in lockdown during the COVID-19 crisis and of course, that includes musicians. Unable to tour and record with their various ensembles, many prepared solo projects (some recorded before the virus struck) for your listening pleasure. Most of the music is very personal, as if the ...

Martin Kuchen: Baza

by John Sharpe
February 26, 2019

On Baza Swedish reedman Martin Küchen joins forces with Polish acoustic bass guitarist Rafal Mazur for a seat-of-the-pants duet, recorded live at the titular Krakow club. Issued as a limited edition LP, but also available as a download, the program contains two cuts also named after the venue. While Küchen may be best known for his ...

Zlatko Kaućić: Diversity

by Mark Corroto
February 15, 2019

This 5-CD box Diversity was produced to honor Slovenian percussionist Zlatko Kaučič's 40 years in music. It is many things, but what it is not, is a career retrospective. How could it be? For quite awhile the drummer was a nomad, moving to Barcelona in 1976, then Amsterdam where he absorbed the new Dutch swing. His ...

Francois Carrier: The Joy of Being

by John Sharpe
April 12, 2017

Canadian reedman Francois Carrier and drummer Michel Lambert enjoy a fertile alliance. They first met back in 1998, when they invited the great Dewey Redman to join them. Since then they've waxed no fewer than 12 discs either in duet or together with other guests and collaborators. On The Joy Of Being they team up with ...

Francois Carrier: Freedom is Space for the Spirit

by Budd Kopman
February 2, 2017

Saxophonist Francois Carrier had quite a week in late May of 2014. It began when he and his long-time percussionist Michel Lambert played with bassist John Edwards and pianist Steve Beresford at the Vortex Jazz Club in London on May 25th and ended with the duo performing with acoustic bassist Rafal Mazur at the Alchemia Jazz ...

Francois Carrier: The Joy of Being

by Budd Kopman
February 1, 2017

Continuing their world travels, the team of reedman Francois Carrier and percussionist Michel Lambert again meet acoustic bassist Rafal Mazur, almost a year to the day from the recording of Unknowable at the Alchemia Jazz Klub in Krakow, Poland to create The Joy Of Being.Much of what can be said about “spontaneous" jazz in ...

Keir Neuringer/Rafal Mazur: Diachronic Paths

by Mark Corroto
April 15, 2016

The aptly named release Diachronic Paths by the free improvising duo of Keir Neuringer and Rafal Mazur continues the transformation discourses of their evolving musical language. One that is based on their dialogue of discovery. Keir Neuringer, a Philadelphia-based saxophonist lived in Kraków and The Hague for a time and established a strong relationship ...