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Borys Janczarski

Born: March 23, 1974

Born in Warsaw, Poland. Started playing saxophone in high school (American School of Warsaw), also graduated in international and European law at Paris I University (Pantheon-Sorbonne - MD). While in France, studied jazz with French saxophone players Jean Francois Bonnel, Olivier Temime, Eric Barret and Lionel Belmondo. After his return to Poland, studied music on his own and with an amazing polish trumpet player, composer and jazz educator Piotr Wojtasik. Since 2002 a member of bands led by the legendary polish drummer - Kazimierz Jonkisz. Shared the stage, toured and recorded with: Billy Harper (DVD, “Billy Harper - Live in Poland, 2007”), Kazimierz Jonkisz, Monty Waters Quintet (2002-2008), Ronnie Cuber, Kevin Mahogany, Stephen McCraven Quartet, Rasul Siddik, John Scofield and John Medeski (with Konglomerat Big Band), Zbigniew Namysłowski (Jazz Jamboree Festival 2021), Janusz Muniak, Piotr Wojtasik , Janusz Skowron, Sławomir Kulpowicz...

Janczarski & Siddik 4tet - Contemplation

Label: For Tune
Released: 2021
Track listing: 1.Contemplation (McCoy Tyner) 2.Sweet Love Of Mine (W.Shaw) 3.Self-Portrait in Three Colors (Ch.Mingus) 4.Witchi Tai To (J.Peppper) 5.Complete Communion (D.Cherry) 6.Dedication (R.Siddik) 7.Caribbean Fire Dance (J.Henderson) https://store.for-tune.pl/magenta/0147-janczarski-siddik-4tet-contemplation

Live In Trójka

By HoTS

Label: For Tune
Released: 2019
Track listing: #30; Panda; #28; #29; #25; #26.

HoTS: Live In Trójka

by Mark Sullivan
April 28, 2019

Poland's HoTS (the name is an initialism of Harmony of The Spheres) returns with a live album. As on previous release Numbers (Multikulti Project, 2017), guitarist Mikołaj Poncyljusz is still giving his compositions mostly numerical titles, but the usual quintet is augmented by guest pianist Aga Derlak. “#30" opens the set with the quintet in bebop ...

Tomasz Dabrowski: Ninjazz

by Don Phipps
February 24, 2019

Dark and foreboding, with a slight touch of heat, Polish trumpeter Tomasz Dąbrowski's album Ninjazz offers up a selection of work that reminds one of his mentor, the late great Tomasz Stanko, with a bit of Enrico Rava, Kenny Wheeler, and Mark Isham thrown in for good measure. Dabrowski is joined on this effort ...

Sigmar Matthíasson: Arora

by Mike Jurkovic
February 6, 2019

Now working and studying in New York, Icelandic bassist/composer Sigmar Matthiasson crossed the cold Atlantic with the groundbreaking sounds of Jaco Pastorius, Led Zeppelin, Reggie Workman, Ron Carter, and Scott LaFaro in his head and dreams. It's no wonder that Matthíasson's lyrical and eminently likable debut recording exhibits such a classic American feel. From ...

Tomasz Dabrowski: Ninjazz

by Mike Jurkovic
February 1, 2019

Ninjazz, just one of Polish trumpeter Tomasz Dabrowski's several recorded efforts of 2018, finds him leading his quartet Ad Hoc through a serious investigation of ten cerebral, tonal abstractions. Uninhibited by language, and sound explorers all, Dabrowski's all-Japanese cohorts, pianist Hiroshi Minami, double bassist and electronics Hiroki Chiba and time-defying drummer Hiroshi Tsuboi viscerally ...

Tomasz Dabrowski Ad Hoc: Ninjazz

by Troy Dostert
January 28, 2019

Although he has built an impressive resume working with well-known avant-gardists like Evan Parker, Tyshawn Sorey, Kris Davis and Andrew Drury (with the latter two appearing on his 2014 release, Vermillion Tree ), Polish trumpeter Tomasz Dabrowski went in a different direction for his current project, Ninjazz. With the title a portmanteau of “Ninja" and “jazz," ...

Joachim Mencel Quintet - Artisena

By Joachim Mencel

Label: For Tune
Released: 2018

Janczarski & McCraven Quintet - Liberator

By Borys Janczarski

Label: For Tune
Released: 2018
Track listing: 01. THE TORN VEIL (Joanna Gajda) 02. THE SPARK (FOR JASIA) (Borys Janczarski) 03. SWEET LOVE OF MINE (Woody Shaw) 04. DADDY'S BOUNCE (Joanna Gajda) 05. HAMBONE*/INTERTWINING SPIRITS (Stephen McCraven) 06. I WANT TO TALK ABOUT YOU (Billy Eckstine) 07. LOVE IS (Joanna Gajda)