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Immortal Onion

The Trio was founded in the spring of 2016. Artists such as Esbjörn Svensson, Hiromi Uehara and Tigran Hamasyan are where the band gets its inspiration from. The classification of Immortal Onion's music is rather challenging, as the musicians are not afraid to refer to many music genres. Their songs are influenced, among others by jazz, film music, minimalism, fusion, electronic music, and even progressive metal. In spite of this divergence in the styles they rotate in, they have succeeded in creating their own recognizable language. Their distinctive sound is down to them skillfully combining energetic and rhythmically complex fragments with minimalist, trickier themes and lyrical themes. The technical and musical proficiency of Immortal Onion's members would not be so surprising if not the fact that the oldest member, Ziemowit Klimek is currently in a 1st year student of composition and entertainment arrangement at the Academy of Music in Gdańsk in the class of Prof

Piotr Rucinski

PIOTR RUCIŃSKI – the guitarist, composer and arranger, presents on his album Let’s Play a Blues a number of compositions from different periods of his musical activity. "Hotel Grand" and "Wielkie koło" were composed at the beginning of 1980s and first recorded together with Elżbieta Mielczarek, Jan Skrzek and Piotr A. Majewski in legendary Aquarium jazz club in Warsaw. "Pięć czwartych" and "Ostatnia knajpa zamknięta" are two examples of several pieces written together with Waldemar Baryło between 2002 and 2008 as part of the Kadabra band. "One note blues" and "Solo na dnie" are the latest compositions of Piotr Ruciński

Szymon Bialorucki

Born: March 5, 1990

Szymon Białorucki — studied jazz trombone with Grzegorz Nagorski, at the Academy of Music in Katowice. In the year 2013/14 he studied with Nils Wogram, at the Hochschule Luzern, Musik, in Switzerland. Szymon leads a quartet The Forest Tuner, where he presents his personal vision of music. The band released its debut album entitled "Tunes" in 2016. He plays in the Konglomerat Big Band – Poland’s first professional, non-commercial Big Band profiled for contemporary improvised music. He participated in various workshops with such musicians as: Peter Bernstein, Mark Soskin, Ed Partyka, Uwe Dierksen, Andy Middleton, Greg Osby, Dariusz Terefenko, Gerry Hemingway, John Voirol, Piotr Wojtasik, Maciej Obara, Dominik Wania, Tom Arthurs, Ole Morten Vaagan, Gard Nilssen

Mateusz Chorazewicz

Born: December 18, 1990

Mateusz Chorazewicz is Polish jazz saxophonist of the young generation. He graduated from the Stanislaw Moniuszko Academy of Music in Gdansk. He was developing his musical skills under the guidance of the most distinguished Polish jazzmen – Maciej Sikala, Adam Wendt, Maciej Obara, Jerzy Malek and many others. He also participated in numerous workshops led by such personalities of jazz as Ed Partyka, Piotr Wojtasik, Jim Black, Ole Morten Vaagan, Jon Falt, Tom Arthurs, Dominik Wania, Zohar Fresco, Peter Hertmans, Andy Middleton and Wayne Horvitz. He is passionate about juicy, hardbop sound of Benny Golson's saxophone, but also does not avoid experimental sounds of Yusef Lateef, Dewey Redman and Pharoah Sanders

Luis

Born: May 28, 1974

Luis graduated as an instrumentalist and saxophone teacher from the National Conservatory of Music in Havana, Amadeo Roldan. He studied under the class of Carlos Averhoff. After completing his studies, Luis Nubiola was invited to go on stage by several distinguished Cuban jazz musicians including Jose Luis Cotes (El Tosco), José Miguel Credo (El Greco) and Díakara. He joined the Cuban music group PG, under the direction of the renowned conductor and flutist José Luis Cortes (El Tosco), founder of the famous NG La Banda group and Top Secret. In Cuba Luis Nubiola has also participated in several musical workshops and performed with Danilo Peres, Gonzalo Rubalcava, George Benson, Steve Coleman, Ralf Irizarry, and others. In 2001, Luis Nubiola moved to Costa Rica where he became one of the finest and most famous musicians, working with such artists as Walter Flores (Grammy winner), Robert Aguilar and “Chocolate Band”

Aga Derlak

Born: 1992

Studied Jazz i muzyka estradowa at Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music. Past: Policealne Studium Jazzu and PSM im F. Chopina w Warszawie. Frontman of Aga Derlak Trio, was initiated by Aga in Dec 2012, double bass: Tymon Trąbczyński percussion: Bartosz Szablowski. Trio is playing there own compositions. It is crazy & courageous music also full of lyricism. They are important voice of young generation in jazz music. They already took the most important jazz awards for juniors in Poland and Czech:Jazz Juniors (2013), Czech Contest 2015.

Jazzpospolita

JAZZPOSPOLITA The new album from Jazzpospolita titled ‘Jazzpo!’ has been released on October 20th 2014. As usually, Jazzpospolita started a long promotional tour that has a beginning but so far, has no end… Five years into their career, Jazzpospolita has become one of the most interesting phenomena in alternative music. So far, they have released four albums and played about 150 gigs all around Europe. With the band’s line-up unchanged from the beginning – guitar, bass, keys, drums – they have established their own and distinguishable sound. The strength of Jazzpo, as called by fans, lies in the unique compositions that place the band on the edge of jazz, post-rock, and electronic music

Tokaj Michal

Born: February 24, 1949

Michał Tokaj jest absolwentem słynnej już Akademii Muzycznej w Katowicach na Wydziale Jazzu i Muzyki Rozrywkowej. Zadebiutował w 1993 roku grając w kwartecie Kazimierza Jonkisza. Wraz z zespołem Joint Venture został laureatem 1-go miejsca na festiwalu Jazz Juniors ’95 w Krakowie, Festiwalu Standardów Jazzowych Siedlce ’96 oraz nagrody dla najbardziej obiecującej młodej grupy na konkursie Europ’ Jazz Contest w Hoelaart w Belgii w roku 1996. Z kwartetem Marcina Żupańskiego zdobył pierwszą nagrodę na Jazz Juniors ’97. W 1999 r. Michał Tokaj zwyciężył w Międzynarodowym Konkursie Improwizacji Jazzowej w Katowicach. Pianista koncertował w USA, Izraelu, Egipcie, Jordanii, oraz w większości krajów europejskich

Artur Dutkiewicz

Artur Dutkiewicz Polish jazz pianist and composer. Born in Pinczów, Poland in 1958. He graduated from The Academy of Music in Katowice, Poland and received diploma with distinction. Dutkiewicz was a finalist of the Thelonious Monk Competition in Washington, USA. He was the first Polish musician who played a solo recital at MIDEM in Cannes. He is one of the most concerting abroad Polish jazz musicians. During his career he performed in more than 60 countries around the world from the United States via Europe, Africa, China to Australia and New Zealand. He is a leader of the ARTUR DUTKIEWICZ TRIO playing modern jazz

Michał Przerwa-Tetmajer

Born: February 17, 1985