Results for "Poznan"

Ethno Port 2022

by Martin Longley
July 17, 2022

Ethno Port Centrum Kultury Zamek Poznań, Poland June 11-12 2022 The three-day Ethno Port festival moved back to its natural month of June in 2022, following a September edition in '21. Your scribe only managed to arrive for the second and third days, but still caught a wide ...

Live From The Blue Note Jazz Club: Jan ‘Ptaszyn’ Wróblewski, Michel Korb, Felix Robin, Dawid Tokłowicz, Nata & Evgeny

by Martin Longley
December 25, 2021

Jan 'Ptaszyn' Wróblewski Blue Note Jazz Club Poznań, Poland August 31, 2021 Although not acknowledged on the main Blue Note website, along with the clubs in New York City, Tokyo, Hawaii, Milan and Rio De Janeiro, there has been a low-key acknowledgement of this Polish outpost's ...

Ethno Port 2021

by Martin Longley
December 23, 2021

Ethno Port Zamek Culture Centre Poznań, Poland September 3-5, 2021 The 2021 Ethno Port was much closer to the festival's accustomed scale, although still with a limited audience size. There were also no freebie outdoor performances in front of the Zamek castle-palace, although this was due to the ...

The Beat Freaks

Active since: July 3

The Beat Freaks - a jazz quartet founded in Szczecin by guitarist Michał Starkiewicz in 2014. The musicians have many individual awards and achievements to their credit; they have collaborated and continue to collaborate with the cream of jazz musicians and beyond.

They have two studio albums to their name, "Leon" (2016) (Top Ten 2016 according to PolishJazzBlogspot journalists) and "Stay Calm" (2019). They also recorded music for the film "Zamoyski - Sculptor with a Camera," which was released digitally.

In 2018, the band made it to the top ten of "Electric Jazz Bands" as well as in the category of "New Jazz Band Hope" according to JazzForum readers. The musicians have performed on the most important jazz stages in Poland and abroad.

"The Mechanics of Nature" is the third studio album by The Beat Freaks, on which the musicians invited a special guest - American trumpeter Ralph Alessi.
 

Piotr Scholz

Born: February 19, 1991

Piotr Scholz Ph.D. (born 1991) is a guitarist, composer and conductor. He is also a winner of many prominent awards, such as Grand Prix of Jazz and Odrą Festival, Grand Prix of Lotos Jazz Festival, 17th Bielska Zadymka Jazzowa, Grand Prix of Jazz Fruit on Mladi Ladi Jazz Festival in Prague, Grand Prix on 18th National Contest of Jazz and Blues Bands, Grand Prix on Blue Note Competition, 1st and 3rd place on International Jazz Composition Contest during Silesian Jazz Festival as well as Grand Prize and Special Prize (Special Mentioned) on 2nd ISAC International Popular Music Composition Competition. Has been honoured with many prestigious awards, such as The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage Award, The Ministry of Science and Higher Education Grant Programme, Artistic Grant Programme from City of Poznań and Young Poland Grant Programme. Piotr is an adjunct profesor at the Academy of Music in Łódź.

Szymon Wójcinski

Born: December 16, 1979

Szymon Wójciński Pianist, improviser, composer, arranger, moving in the extensive stylistic spectrum, incessantly exploring music from classical music, through the jazz to a contemporary improvised music. He attended music schools, also improved his skills on numerous musical workshops (among others in Chodzież, International Jazz of Platforms in Łódź). Participant in numerous musical events in Poland and Europe (among others along with the Emergency group at the Nordischerklang festival, concerts with Sylwia Białas and H-P Salentin as European Jazz Ensemble). The initiator, the leader and the participant in many musical projects (among others Emergency)

Marek Jakubowicz

Born: November 7, 1974

Composer. Guitarist. Graduated advanced jazz improvisation at Berklee. Member of Gypsy Jazz Academy. Studied also classical music at Curtis Institute of Music oraz w National University of Singapore. Compose modern music, jazz. Location: Poland, Poznań I was born 7 november 1974 in Poland in family with long classical musical roots. I played blues for many years but in 1998 I met person who changed my music. It was pianist Reggie Thomas. I learned from him a lot and started discover jazz music. This was time when I composed first tune for the “Feelings”: “Bossanova for my wife”. About 10 year later I continued music study and graduated Advanced Jazz Guitar Improvisation at Berklee College of Music and joined Gypsy Jazz Academy

Maciej Flaczyński - Dj Konik Morski

Born: October 23, 1980

Dj Konik Morski - truely called Maciej Flaczynski - jazz guitarist and composer from Poznan in Poland. He plays and compose for:
- jazz band called Zezz Kwartet (own compositions, modern jazz, swing, charlie mingus tunes)
- Fancy Group (r''n''b-soul-jazz-groove music).
- Reed Vibration - blues-jazz band with harmonica as a lider instrument
- Gentle Jazz Trio - soul-jazz trio with singer Ewa Nawrot (soul,r'n'b, jazz standards) As Dj Konik Morski made some sampled, electronic music combine with jazz and soul harmonies and instrumentations. All about Dj Konik Morski music at: www.myspace.com/djkonikmorski Maciej founded in 2006 Jazz Event Music Agency - www.jazzevent.pl which provides Jazz and Classic Music Bands from Wielkopolska area for business and private clients. Zezz Kwartet - polish jazz band created in 2006 in Poznan in Poland

Maciej Fortuna / Krzysztof Dys: Tropy

by Eyal Hareuveni
December 26, 2013

Polish, Poznań-based trumpeter Maciej Fortuna is a musician with many tastes. He himself divided the music that he composes, produces and releases on his own label to ethno-jazz, electric jazz, acoustic jazz, live electronics and improvised music. His new duo project with pianist Krzysztof Dys, member of reed player Wacław Zimpel's quartet is supposed to fall ...