Artur Dutkiewicz

Artur Dutkiewicz (2010)

Artur Dutkiewicz (born December 12, 1958 in Pińczów ) is a Polish jazz musician ( piano , composition).

Act

Dutkiewicz received his musical education at the Katowice Music Academy , which he graduated with honors. He played in Tomasz Szukalski's band in the 1980s and early 1990s and was involved in several of his albums, including Tina Blues (1986), for which he wrote all the pieces on the A side. He also recorded albums with Zbigniew Namysłowski and Deborah Brown and Grażyna Auguścik . He also gave solo concerts, around 1988 in Cannes on the occasion of the MIDEM . From the mid-1990s he worked with Tadeusz Nalepa . He has also performed with Urszula Dudziak , Lora Szafran , Jorgos Skolias, as well as with Michele Hendricks , Alaine Brunet, Pierre Michelot and Hiram Bullock . He was a guest at the North Sea Jazz Festival , Jazz East-West , the Düsseldorf Jazz Rally , the Glasgow Jazz Festival and the Jazz Jamboree and has given numerous concerts in most European countries as well as in North America, China and Australia.

Since 1996 he has released albums under his own name; in recent years he has mainly performed with his trio. With this he improvised on Niemen Improwizacje on songs by Czesław Niemen . With Hendrix Piano , he recorded the first jazz album in 2010, which brings the music of Jimi Hendrix to the ear with a piano trio. In 2012 he performed solo contemporary compositions based on Polish folk music and the classical mazurkas .

Discographic notes

• Błękitna Ścieżka (CD, Polonia Records, 1996)
• Artur Dutkiewicz Trio: Niemen Improwizacje (Pianoart, 2009)
• Artur Dutkiewicz Trio: Hendrix Piano (Pianoart, 2010)
• Mazurki (Pianoart, 2012)
• Artur Dutkiewicz Trio: Prana (Pianoart, 2014)

Web links

• Web presence
• portrait
• Artur Dutkiewicz at Discogs (English)