Jazz Articles about Tomasz Dabrowski

Tomasz Dabrowski: S-O-L-O: 30th Birthday/30 Concerts/30 Cities

by Jakob Baekgaard
May 19, 2016

Playing solo is a challenge that takes a lot of discipline. Whereas jazz often relies on the exchange of ideas in a group, there is only one person to carry out what pianist Bill Evans called his “conversations with himself." The consequence is that a soliloquy has the risk of going stale, but it can also be a unique opportunity for the artist to communicate directly with his or her surroundings. The reason why Polish trumpeter Tomasz ...