Results for "Poland"

Sylwester Ostrowski New Song "Chiefs Kingdom" Available Now

September 26, 2020

Sylwester Ostrowski, new single “Chiefs Kingdom" featuring Bobby Watson is available now. The music honors Kansas City, its Jazz legacy, and the 2020 Super Bowl Champions, the Chiefs. In this song, Ostrowski brings together two Kansas City legacies, Jazz and football. His team includes Jazz artists from three generations. He co-produced the music with Dominique Sanders ...

Confusion Project

Active since: 2013

Confusion Project is a jazz trio from Poland, established in 2013. According to critics, Confusion Project's music is considered to be a neoromantic approach to jazz fusion, with extensive compositions, strong melodies and complex rhythms.

Confusion Project has released 4 albums so far, the third being a concept album entitled "Primal". PRIMAL is a suite divided into parts describing the journey of a lonely man who finds his true nature and primality in his contact with nature.

Confusion Project has recorded its 4th album in October 2020. The album, entitled "LAST" has been released in October 2021

Tomasz Grzegorski Trio at Brudershaft, Gdansk

by Martin McFie
August 22, 2020

Tomasz Grzegorski Trio Brudershaft Gdansk, Poland August 19, 2020 Gdansk (once Danzig) has been affiliated with Germany and Russia but mostly with Poland through 1,000 years of history. Forty years ago, a young electrician in the Lenin Shipbuilding Yard in Gdansk started an independent union Solidarnosc--Solidarity, which eventually led to the ...

4th Zbigniew Seifert International Jazz Violin Competition

by Ian Patterson
July 19, 2020

4th Zbigniew Seifert International Jazz Violin Competition Cricoteka Museum, Kraków, Poland/Various international locations on-line July 8-10, 2020 When the fanfare and drum roll had died down the big moment arrived. After three days of on-line competition, the six finalists waited anxiously in front of their screens, in Israel, The USA, Austria, ...

Joachim Mencel

Born: September 15, 1966

Joachim Mencel – pianist, lyricist (hurdy-gurdy player), composer, music producer, PhD – assistant professor at the Academy of Music in Krakow, decorated with, among others Silver Cross of Merit and Bronze Medal for Merit to Culture Gloria Artis, called the “romantic of Polish jazz pianism” He graduated from the Jazz and Popular Music Department of the Music Academy in Katowice. He played, among others in the bands of Janusz Muniak (CD “Contemplation”), Andrzej Cudzich (CD “Simple Way”) and Nigel Kennedy. He regularly cooperates with the American clarinettist Brad Terrym (albums “All about spring”, “Colorado”, “Live in Fort Andross”)

JazzArt Festival Katowice 2020 - Entering the times of streaming events

by Henning Bolte
May 23, 2020

Joanna Duda Miasto Ogrodów JazzArt Festival 2020 Katowice April 30, 2020 JazzArt Festival in Katowice, Poland, made its contribution to the annual international Jazz Day on April 30 with a live streamed performance by multifarious keyboardist Joanna Duda. Performing from her home (at Gdynia at the Baltic Sea) she utilized ...

London Jazz Composers Orchestra 50 Year Anniversary

by John Sharpe
March 26, 2020

London Jazz Composers Orchestra Alchemia and Manggha Museum Krakow, Poland March 6-8, 2020 Intro Fifty years and counting. One of the most important larger bands in European jazz, The London Jazz Composers Orchestra celebrated its golden anniversary over three days in Krakow which culminated in a triumphant performance of “Harmos." ...

Jazztopad 2019

by Henning Bolte
February 15, 2020

Vincent Courtois Trio Witold Lutoslawski National Forum of Music, Mleczarnia Club Jazztopad Wroclaw November 21-24, 2019 On my arrival in Wroclaw, on the way to the reverend National Forum of Music (NFM), the first familiar face I met in the street was Mateusz Rybicki, a musician that has ...

Aleksandra Kutrzepa Quartet

Born: June 19, 1988

Aleksandra Kutrzepa Quartet was formed in December 2015. Members of the band are graduates the Karol Szymanowski Music Academy in Katowice and Institute Of Music of the Art Department in Lublin. The band's repertoire consists of original compositions combining elements of contemporary jazz and free jazz with illustrative music. For a long time the band worked on a common sound, which is a priority for each member, and is created by the unconventional use of electronics supporting the color of acoustic instruments. In May 2018, the band released their debut album "Impressions". Album "Impressions" hit in December 2018 on the list of the 5 best jazz debuts in Poland

Miłosz Skwirut

Born: May 12, 1988