Results for "Tomasz Dabrowski"

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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 ...

Article: Album Review

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 ...

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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," ...

Album

Ninjazz

By Tomasz Dabrowski

Label: For Tune
Released: 2018
Track listing: Another, More Desirable Reality; Penalty Fare; Concerns; Oddly Abstract Nature; Perfectly Average; Lines for Bogdan; Helga; Corrosive Power; The North.

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Tomasz Dabrowski Ad Hoc: Ninjazz

by Glenn Astarita
December 5, 2018

Award-winning Polish trumpeter/educator Tomasz Dąbrowski (Gilad Hekselman, Kurt Rosenwinkel, TOM TRIO) and current resident of Copenhagen, has an impressive résumé amid a penchant for exploring dissimilar jazz-based methods. Here, the artist and his Japanese cohorts build an opaque conduit between modern jazz and experimental tendencies via a democratic engagement, where each musician's voice is heard.

Video

Penalty Fare

Featuring the music of Tomasz Dabrowski
Duration: 3:07
September 25, 2018

Tomasz Dąbrowski is considered to be one of the most important European trumpeters and composers today. Together with the legendary pianist and writer Hiroshi Minami and two young lions of the Tokyo jazz scene - Hiroki Chiba and Tsuboi Hiroshi, they form the group Ad Hoc. Band of no words which recently released their second studio album - "Ninjazz".

Song of the Day

Lines for Bogdan

September 15, 2018

Album: Ninjazz
By Tomasz Dabrowski
Label: For Tune
Released: 2018
Duration: 6:59

Musician

Tomasz Dabrowski

Born: March 31, 1984

Tomasz Dąbrowski is an award-winning Polish trumpeter and composer settled in Copenhagen, Denmark. With eight albums released under his own name and dozens of CDs as a co-leader and sideman, he is considered one of the most gifted trumpeters and composers in Europe. Tomasz has mostly been known for his work with groups TOM TRIO [ nominated to the FRYDERYK AWARD - Polish Music Industry Award], FREE4ARTS, his Japanese quartet AD HOC, string of concerts S-O-L-O: 30th Birthday / 30 Concerts / 30 Cities and projects with Tomasz Stańko, Tyshawn Sorey and Kris Davis, which received raving reviews internationally and created opportunities to tour all over Europe, North America and Asia. Tomasz is a member of a Danish musician-run collective and record label Barefoot Records.

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Tomasz Dabrowski, Thumbscrew and other new releases

by Maurice Hogue
September 7, 2018

Back in January 2018, for all intents and purposes, Cuneiform Records shut down most of their operation. A total reassessment of their position in the industry and the state of the industry itself were scheduled. Would they be back or not? Lo and behold, some months later they returned and we have to thank Mary Halvorson, ...

Article: Building a Jazz Library

Forget Old Europe: 15 European Jazz Musicians You Need To Know About

by Enrico Bettinello
August 16, 2017

Since the first half of the 20th century, the Old Continent has played a pivotal role both in welcoming and supporting jazz artists from the United States. Over the following decades it has expressed generations of passionate musicians with increasingly original languages and ever greater improvisatory skills. In the 21st century there are countless ...