Bartlomiej "Brat" Oles

Bartlomiej "Brat" Oles / Kenny Werner / Marcin Oles: Shadows

by Brad Glanden
November 7, 2006

According to psychologist Carl Jung, certain aspects of the personality are rarely acknowledged by the conscious mind, but make themselves known symbolically through dreams. One such manifestation, the Shadow, represents attributes that are instinctive and have been repressed. Recognizing the Shadow's presence may help bridge the gap between the Ego and the Self, leading to a greater awareness of one's creative impulses.

Pianist Kenny Werner, whose influential book Effortless Mastery is widely used as a textbook in music pedagogy, has ...

Guitarist Mike Scott Releases 'Collecting Things,' Featuring Joe Bagg, Darek Oles And Jake Reed

Source: Mouthpiece Music
January 12, 2021

Collecting Things, the newest recording by guitarist and composer Mike Scott, is a pastiche of music styles mostly penned by Scott and performed by some of the top jazz musicians in Southern California. This is the third album by Scott as a leader and follows Fallen Peach (2011) and Good Place To Be (2000). The L.A. Weekly says, “Like the author of this subtle record, the music won't hit you over the head with precocious braggadocio or mind-numbing complexity. The ...
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Sid Jacobs, Joe La Barbera, Darek Oles - "Three In One" Available Now On CD, WAV, FLAC & MP3 From Art Of Life Records

Source: Art of Life Records
September 29, 2018

Art of Life Records is pleased to present guitarist Sid Jacobs’ new trio album, Three in One, featuring Joe La Barbera (Bill Evans, Joe Farrell, Chuck Mangione) on drums and Darek Oles (Peter Erskine, Brad Mehldau, Alan Pasqua) on acoustic bass. The album features many well-known Jazz Standards from composers George & Ira Gershwin and DuBose & Dorothy Heyward: “There’s a Boat That’s Leaving Soon for New York”, “It Ain’t Necessarily So”, “I Loves You Porgy”, “Summertime”, “Bess You is ...
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Fuzzy Music Release New Recording Titled "Standards 2 - Movie Music" with Peter Erskine, Bob Mintzer, Darek Oles, and Alan Pasqua

Source: Two for the Show Media
January 18, 2011

Music is often spoken of as forming the soundtrack of our lives. Movie score music compounds the effect, marrying melody with image, the exponential power of 24 frames per second combined with soaring tunes and magical counterpoint to provide all of us who love the movies a powerful emotional and cultural reference point, time and again. And who doesn't love a good movie or song? These songs are standards in both the jazz and cinematic sense. Compiling any sort of ...
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Peter Erskine, Alan Pasqua and Darek Oles Play in Red Carpet Jazz Series Upstairs at Vitello's Studio City

Source: All About Jazz
September 11, 2009

Peter plays with his current band with Alan Pasqua and Darek Oles. Whatta TRIO! Upstairs at Vitello's is becoming known as “one of LA's best listening rooms". This combination will present a stellar evening for music aficionados on Wednesday September 16, 2009 in Studio City. Reservations 818-769-0905 concert 7:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m. 4349 Tujunga Avenue, Studio City, Ca 91604. Peter Erskine began playing the drums at the age of four, and has now been at the forefront of world-class ...
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Theo Jorgensmann & Oles Brothers: "Alchemia" on Hatology 646

Source: All About Jazz
December 19, 2007

Theo Jorgensmann & Oles Brothers: Alchemia Hatology 646

“Perhaps surprisingly for a conceptualist like Jorgensmann, 'straightahead' jazzers Tony Scott and Buddy De Franco now seem even more relevant to our updated perception of Alchemia. Both were powerful clarinetists who brought idiosyncratic phrasing and a harmonic bite to solos that balanced on the cusp of freedom. The most impressive aspect of Alchemia, to my ears, is the trio's ecstatic, elastic freedom of line and design. Fluid internal tempo changes ...
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