Jazz Articles about Michał Starkiewicz

The Beat Freaks: Leon

by Glenn Astarita
July 11, 2017

Based in Poland, guitarist Michał Starkiewicz founded this band in 2014, followed by successful concert tours and of course, this album that presents a modicum of youthful vim and vigor, largely within the progressive jazz schema amid a few slight nods to jazz fusion. Moreover, the musicians dedicate the album to a mythical figure Leon Kokaiewicz, although the story behind these motivations briefly outlined in the album notes are not clear to me. The quartet's buoyant and spunky ...