Results for "Urszula Dudziak"

Urszula Dudziak

Born: October 22, 1943

Urszula Dudziak is a world-renowned Polish jazz vocalist with an extraordinary freedom and perfection of intonation coupled with original technique. In childhood she learned to play piano, began singing in high school, influenced by the voice of Ella Fitzgerald. She began her career in the '60s with the team of Krzysztof Komeda, also sang and recorded with the orchestra of Edward Czerny. Originally performed mainly jazz standards, but then teamed up with future husband Michal Urbaniak and changed the nature of Polish jazz. In 1973, together with Michal Urbaniak she went to New York and did extensive recording

Polish Jazz Festival returns to London

September 14, 2026

September 2026 marks the second Polish Jazz Festival to take place in London-curated, as it was in 2025, by businessman and music fanatic Łukasz Droździel. Three significant women singers form the backbone of the festival: Anna Maria Jopek (also a pianist), pop/jazz/world music star Kayah, and jazz vocal legend Urszula Dudziak. The latter celebrates her 83rd ...

New York Voices at Ladies' Jazz Festival 2026

by Marek J. Śmietański
August 9, 2026

Voo Voo Runs the Voodoo Down

by Maciej Stasiowski
August 1, 2026

Voo Voo is the faux-phonetic transcription of how Wojciech Waglewski's initials should be pronounced in English--instead of the default “double U" times two. By no mere coincidence, it is also the name of a group he has been running since 1985. Having secured his band this way for sailing on international waters already at the outset, ...

John Lamkin: Hot

by Tony Poole
March 8, 2025

Best known as a dedicated music educator, Dr. John Lamkin II has spent decades shaping the next generation of musicians as Director of Bands at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. But in 1984, he stepped into the spotlight with Hot, a dynamic blend of fusion, R&B, and straight-ahead jazz-funk that showcased his prowess as a ...

Komeda: A Private Life In Jazz

by Ian Patterson
October 29, 2020

Komeda: A Private Life In Jazz Magdalena Grzebałkowska 456 Pages ISBN: 978 1 78179 945 1 Equinox Publishing2020 That it has taken over fifty years for the first English-language biography of Krzysztof Komeda to appear reflects the pianist/composer's underground status outside his native Poland. Yet no history of European ...

Jazzahead! 2018

by Henning Bolte
May 3, 2018

Bremen Trade Fair Hall Jazzahead! Bremen, Germany April 21-23, 2018 Jazzahead!, the three-day annual jazz marketplace of/for jazz in the Hanseatic city of Bremen in North-Western Germany with 3,283 participants from 61 countries stood strong and steady again this year. A total of 40 showcases over three days, ...

The Sirkis/Bialas International Quartet: Come to Me

by Angelo Leonardi
August 12, 2015

È una musica avvincente e ricercata quella che si ascolta in Come to Me: atmosfere intime e raccolte che si confrontano con sequenze incisive, sia vocali che strumentali. Protagonista è un quartetto al suo debutto, guidato dalla cantante polacca Sylwia Bialas e dal batterista israeliano Asaf Sirkis. La prima risiede in Germania mentre Sirkis vive in ...

Julia Karosi: Hidden Roots

by Angelo Leonardi
July 7, 2015

Le radici nascoste a cui fa riferimento il titolo si riferiscono al folklore musicale magiaro di cui questo disco è intriso. Julia Karosi è una delle migliori cantanti di jazz ungheresi e in questo terzo disco da leader interpreta un repertorio con sue composizioni e canti tradizionali ungheresi. Diplomata alla Franz Liszt ...

Wszystko Gra

By Urszula Dudziak

Label: Keytone
Released: 2013