Bronislaw Suchanek

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Bronisław Suchanek (* the 30th August 1948 in Bielsko-Biała ) is a Polish jazz - bassist .

Live and act

Bronisław Suchanek studied double bass at the Musikhochschule from 1967 and played in the Silesian Jazz Quartet during this time . In 1971 he began working with the pianist Mieczysław Kosz . He became known beyond Poland through his play in the band of Tomasz Stańko , with whom he recorded albums such as Music for K (1970), toured in Central Europe and in 1973 appeared at the Jazz Jamboree . Suchanek was also a member of the Jazz Studio Orchestra of the Polish Radio under the direction of Jan Wróblewski . In the late 1970s he worked in Scandinavia; So in 1977 he recorded George Russell's Vertical Form VI on Soul Note with the Swedish Radio Jazz Orchestra . Since 1976 he has been part of the Sound of Flowers formation with Fredrik Norén , Rune Carlsson , Bobo Stenson , Bjarne Roupé and Roland Keijser .

In the early 1980s Suchanek played in various projects in Germany and Austria, such as in Joe Nays Formation Message , in the GAP Band (1983) and in the formation Oriental Wind from Okay Temiz . In the mid-1980s he went on tour with the Polski Jazz Ensemble around Leszek Zadlo . In the early 1990s he taught at the Maine School of Music. In 2009 he recorded the duo album Sketch in Blue with the pianist Dominik Wania . In the same year he performed at the Cracow Jazz All Souls' Day Festival a . a. with Joachim Kühn at the Polish premiere of Zbigniew Seifert's jazz concert for violin, symphony orchestra and rhythm section.

Suchanek lives in Milton near Boston , USA.

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Individual evidence

  1. a b Eugene Chadbourne : Bronisław Suchanek at Allmusic (English)
  2. Bielefeld Catalog 1988.
  3. Roupe.dk
  4. Martin Kunzler : Jazz Lexicon. Vol. 2 . 2nd edition Rowohlt, Reinbek 2002, ISBN 3-499-16317-9 , p. 848.
  5. Information at carcow.travel ( Memento of the original from January 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cracow.travel
  6. ^ Leszek Możdżer / Bronisław Suchanek. on: rozrywka.trojmiasto.pl