Results for "Rafal Sarnecki"

That's a Computer

By Lucas Pino

Label: Outside in Music
Released: 2018
Track listing: Antiquity; Horse of a Different Color; Film at 11; Look into My Eyes; Frustrations; Sueno de Gatos; Baseball Simulator 1000.

Climbing Trees

By Rafal Sarnecki

Label: Outside in Music
Released: 2018
Track listing: Solar Eclipse; Dadaism; Little Dolphin - Part 1; Little Dolphin - Part 2; Little Dolphin - Part 3; Zhongguo; Write a Letter to Yourself; Disappointing Fresh Peach; Hydrodynamics; Homo Sapiens.

Annie Chen Octet: Secret Treetop

by Jack Bowers
December 30, 2018

Over the years, jazz has widened its horizons to encompass a broad range of music that many of those who practiced and/or appreciated the more traditional forms might not recognize, let alone endorse. Among the more recent genres is “world music," which embodies various rhythmic and harmonic elements of jazz without assimilating its core values. On ...

Rafal Sarnecki: Climbing Trees

by Jerome Wilson
October 12, 2018

Guitarist Rafal Sarnecki has put together a CD with an interesting combination of influences here. His music mixes together elements of classical chamber music and progressive jazz-rock which is played by a group with a front line of guitar, tenor sax and voice. The presence of a high, wordless female voice sometimes gives this the feel ...

Solar Eclipse

August 22, 2018

Album: Climbing Trees
By Rafal Sarnecki
Label: Outside in Music
Released: 2018
Duration: 8:35

Vivi Hu Becomes New Creation On New EP

May 2, 2018

Don’t tell singer, songwriter, and bandleader Vivi Hu that fairy tales never come true. Once upon a time, a young girl was born in Xiamen, China, where she grew up studying traditional Chinese music, along with vocals and flute. After her first exposure to jazz at a festival in Shanghai, she ambitiously determined to infuse jazz ...

From a Familiar Place

Label: WM Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: From a Familiar Place; Mercy, Mercy, Mercy; Blind Warriors; On Sunday, After Church; Take Five; Das Bounce; Grass Hoppers; Praeludium; Looking Ahead.

Penang Island Jazz Festival 2016

by Ian Patterson
December 23, 2016

12 + 1 Penang Island Jazz Festival Bayview Beach Resort/Various Venues jny: Penang, Malaysia December 1-4, 2016 A tongue-in-cheek marketing ploy, or fear of inviting disaster? The Malaysians are doubtless no more or no less suspicious than folk in most places, but the organizers of the 12th + 1 Penang Island ...

Jan Kus Quartet: Faith

by Chris M. Slawecki
May 9, 2016

As a young Slovenian saxophone student, Jan Kus proved so promising that he earned a scholarship from the Slovenian Ministry of Culture to study at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, studies which included tours of Belgium, Cyprus, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Slovenia, Slovakia, and The Netherlands, with other young European jazz players. In 2012, Kus crossed ...

India to Italy, Brazil to Slovenia–Where WON'T Jazz Go?

by Chris M. Slawecki
May 3, 2016

Avataar Petal Self-Produced 2016 While growing up in the Northern Ontario mining town of Sunbury, he was known as “Sam." But in his early twenties, Sundar Viswanathan reconnected with his Indian name and heritage, and, through several conservatory courses spanning North Indian classical to Turkish maquam music, dove ...