Jerry Goodman (Chicago, Illinois, March 16, 1949) is an American violinist best known for playing electric violin in the bands The Flock and the jazz fusion Mahavishnu Orchestra. Goodman actually began his musical career as The Flock’s roadie before joining the band on violin. Trained in the conservatory, both of his parents were in the […]
MICHAL WIERBA (bio – click here) This year , he will play in a trio composed of Szymon Piotrowski – drums, and Marlene Rosenberg – bass SZYMON PIOTROWSKI Szymon Aleksander Piotrowski graduated from AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków (Poland), where he also started PhD studies and leaded author classes in music production. He […]
All Souls Jazz & Chopin Theatre will celebrate the life and music of extraordinary jazz musician Michal Urbaniak. The evening will begin with a 7pm reception followed by 8pm biographical film about his life, “New Yorker by Choice” – dir. Wieslaw Dabrowski. After the screening (approx 9pm), Michal Urbaniak will talk about the special moments […]
November 14, 2007 It’s loud and raucous, soft and introspective, freely experimental and openly nostalgic. Polish jazz in the 21st Century, in other words, is no more easily categorized than its American counterpart. That much, at least, was apparent throughout Monday night’s exuberantly freewheeling All Souls’ Polish Jazz Festival, which attracted a standing-room-only audience to […]
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/ct-live-1110-polish-jazz-20101109,0,4129912.column November 09, 2010 | By Howard Reich | Arts critic Poland has embraced jazz for more than half a century, the music coursing through cities such as Krakow, Warsaw, Poznan and more. So it should come as no surprise that Chicago, with its enormous Polish population, would pick up the country’s jazz pulse […]
ALL SOULS DAY-CHICAGO 2010 Dwunasta już edycja Krakowskich Zaduszek Jazzowych w Chicago miała miejsce 8 listopada br. Koncerty odbywały się równocześnie na dwóch różnych scenach, od 19:00 do wczesnego rana! W Chopin Theatre wystąpiło w sumie ok. 50 muzyków, m.in. Paweł Kaczmarczyk & Audiofeeling Band, Rafał Sarnecki Quar¬tet (NYC), Krzysztof Pabian Jazz Quartet, Marcin Januszkiewicz […]
“New Yorker by Choice” in Chicago Life and music of Michal Urbaniak live at Chopin Theatre On Monday, February 2nd, 2015 – All Souls Jazz & Chopin Theatre will celebrate the life and music of extraordinary jazz musician Michal Urbaniak. The evening will begin with a 7pm reception followed by 8pm biographical film about […]
Na rok 2014 przypada czterdziesta szósta rocznica powstania kultowej grupy Breakout. Jest to niepowtarzalna okazja do przypomnienia twórczości zespołu : piosenek, których słuchaliśmy „kiedy byliśmy małymi chłopcami” Piotr Nalepa (mały chłopiec z okladki płyty Breakout Blues)– gitarzysta i kompozytor, syn Tadeusza Nalepy i Miry Kubasińskiej, karierę rozpoczynał u boku ojca, w którego zespole występował […]