Results for "Warsaw"

Maciej Trifonidis

Born: February 24, 1974

Maciej Trifonidis ( born february 24. 1974 in Warsaw). Composer, musician, publisher, producer and sound engineer. Through his music he travels across a world of sounds all the time retaining his own unique style and musical language. He writes for big orchestral ensembles, jazz combos, trios, duets and more. The music he creates is always energetic, full of formal experimentation and exciting compositional elements. Apart from the sophisticated jazz themes we can experience courageous sonic experiments, wild free improvisations and symphonic moods reminiscent of movie soundtracks with elements of jazz, contemporary composition, ethno and world music

Radek Nowicki Quartet

Born: April 30, 1976

Radek Nowicki is tenor and soprano saxophonists. He graduated with honours from the Fryderyk Chopin State School of Music in Warsaw and the Jazz Institute of the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice. He is a member of Zbigniew Namyslowski’s Big Band. He received First Prize at the Jazz Standards Festival in Siedlce in 2000 with the Szymon Makohin Quintet. In 2004 he won Third Prize in the Jazz Struggle International Competition in Szczecin from jury leaded by Billy Harper, where he also received an honorary mention for most interesting debut. With the trio Kaczmarczyk/Dobrowolski/Traczyk he was awarded First Prize in the Kultursalon Horbigger in Vienna

Babooshki

Born: April 19, 1984

Babooshki formed as a band organically in 2009. The thing that brought these young and talented musicians together is a passion to find common ground between the neighbouring countries of Poland and the Ukraine on a cultural as well as musical level. Their common history and traditions are stored in original, and full of charm, melodies. These melodies include Christmas carols and pastorals, some of them almost completely forgotten, living only in the memories of the inhabitants of small villages in the Eastern Borderlands (Kresy). The band have endeavoured to introduce the music derived from their common Slavic roots

Tomasz Stańko

Born: July 11, 1942

Tomasz Stanko was 20 and a graduate of the Cracow Music Academy when he formed his first band, the Jazz Darings, with pianist Adam Makowicz in 1962. Inspired by early Ornette Coleman and the innovations of Coltrane, Miles Davis and George Russell, the group is often cited by music historians as the first European group to play free jazz, but for the trumpeter its importance was eclipsed by the invitation to join Krzystof Komeda's quintet the following year. Stanko has acknowledged that much of his subsequent musical direction and his own compositional style was influenced by Komeda. The lyricism, the feeling of playing only the essential, the approach to structure, to asymmetry, many harmonic details. Stanko toured for five years with Komeda, appeared on 11 albums with him, and also made contributions to all of the films scores that Komeda realized in Poland.

Jerzy Boklazec

Mikołaj Poncyljusz

Guitarist, composer and producer – the leader of the Warsaw based „HoTS” band. A graduate of the State Music School of the second degree of F. Chopin in Warsaw at the Faculty of Jazz and a graduate of the Academy of Music Karol Szymanowski in Katowice in the department of jazz and stage music. Currently associated with the HoTS, Light Star Guiding, Warsaw Improvisators Orchestra and Opera Na Zamku in Szczecin.

Marcin Wasilewski

Born: 1975

The trio is one of the brightest stars of the Polish jazz scene, recognised for their unique talent in blending tradition with contemporary sound. Marcin Wasilewski Trio is: Marcin Wasilewski, piano, (born 1975), Sławomir Kurkiewicz, double- bass, (born 1975) and Michał Miśkiewicz (born 1977) playing drums. The band combines the grand tradition of the challenging piano trio tenet and creates their own distinct sound in doing so. It is also one of the most consistently developing bands of the Polish music scene, and one that is very open to inspiration from the surrounding environment. The Marcin Wasilewski Trio is considered one of the most acclaimed and unique jazz formations of its generation, and it has garnered recognition in its native Poland as well as abroad. In 2019, the band will celebrates 25 years of playing in an unwavering squad

Jazz Jantar 2017

by Martin Longley
December 21, 2017

Jazz Jantar Klub Zak Gdańsk, Poland November 9-12, 2017 Jazz Jantar is one of the less well-known Polish festivals (outside of Poland), but it has been running in the northern port of Gdańsk for two decades, and is housed by Klub Zak, an arts centre that has roots ...

High Definition Quartet: Bukoliki

by Glenn Astarita
February 16, 2016

Surprises abound on Poland's For-Tune Records label, reminding us of this country's well-known and important legacy within modern jazz circles. On the heels of their widely acclaimed debut Hopasa (Emarcy, 2013), the High Definition Quartet strikes again with this superfine effort that substantiates its moniker with the crystal clear audio characteristics and the musicians' strict attention ...

Irek Wojtczak & The Fonda-Stevens Group: Folk Five

by Angelo Leonardi
November 16, 2015

Il connubio con la tradizione folklorica è stata una delle costanti del jazz in Polonia. Dal loro enorme patrimonio di canti e danze popolari hanno tratto ispirazione -direttamente o indirettamente-importanti jazzmen di quel Paese: si va dall'opera pionieristica di Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski e di Zygmunt Wichary a quella di Zbigniew Namyslowski, Michal Urbaniak, Andrzej Trzaskowski e ...