Artur Majewski

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Artur Majewski (* 1978 in Wrocław ) is a Polish jazz musician ( trumpet , electronics).

Live and act

Majewski first received classical piano lessons; at the age of 10 he switched to the trumpet. In 2002 he graduated from the Katowice Music Academy, where he studied with Piotr Wojtasik .

Majewski played in the Robotobibok jazz ensemble from 2000 with Marcin Ożóg , Maciej Bączyk and Adam Pindur . With the drummer Kuba Suchar he forms the duo Mikrokolektyw . Together they played with Chicago musicians such as Fred Anderson , Nicole Mitchell and Rob Mazurek ; In 2007 they performed with the Exploding Star Orchestra in Warsaw. The duo recorded the album Revisit for Delmark Records in 2010 , the first release by a European band on the Chicago label. Raymond Salvatore Harmon produced the film Dew Point in 2010 through Mikrokolektyw at the Wytwórnia Filmów Fabularnych studios in Wroclaw . In 2014 the duo recorded an album with Noël Akchoté . In 2010 Majewski formed the improvisation ensemble Foton Quartet with Gerard Lebik , with which the album Zomo Hall was recorded. In 2016 Majewski's first solo album, Unimaginable Game, was released . He can also be heard on an album by Lotte Anker .

Discographic notes

  • 2000 - Robotobibok: Jogging
  • 2002 - Robotobibok: Instytut Las
  • 2004 - Robotobibok: Nawyki Przyrody
  • 2010 - Mikrokolektyw: Revisit ( Delmark )
  • 2010 - Mikrokolektyw: Dew Point (DVD, Delmark)
  • 2013 - Mikrokolektyw: Absent Minded (Delmark)
  • 2013 - Anna Kaluza, Artur Majewski, Rafał Mazur, Cuba Suchar: Tone Hunting ( Clean Feed )
  • 2014 - Noël Akchoté & Mikrokolektyw: Noël Akchoté & Mikrokolektyw (in-house production)
  • 2016 - Unimaginable Game (in-house production)
  • 2017 - Agustí Fernández / Artur Majewski / Rafał Mazur Spontaneous Soundscapes ( Not Two Records )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mikrokolektyw at All About Jazz
  2. ↑ Exploratory Music From Poland, part 2 ( Memento from April 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Delmark Records New Jazz and Blues Releases for the Fall !! ( Memento from July 22, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  4. ↑ Information from NotTwo Records ( Memento from December 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Majewski, Artur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw