Jazzpospolita
| Jazzpospolita | |
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.jpg) Michał Przerwa-Tetmajer at a group concert in 2011 |
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| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Jazz , post-rock |
| founding | 2008 |
| Website | www.jazzpospolita.com |
| Current occupation | |
bass |
Stefan Nowakowski |
Drums |
Wojtek Oleksiak |
guitar |
Michał Przerwa-Tetmajer |
Piano, keyboard, organ |
Michał Załęski |
| former members | |
guitar |
Bartek Borowiec |
saxophone |
Daniel Grzeszykowski |
Jazzpospolita is a Polish jazz band .
history
The name Jazzpospolita is an allusion to the old Polish word rzeczpospolita , republic / res publica . The band was founded in 2008 by Stefan Nowakowski and Wojtek Oleksiak in Warsaw . Bartek Borowiec (guitar) and Daniel Grzeszykowski (saxophone) were replaced by Michał Przerwa-Tetmajer and Michał Załęski before the debut EP was recorded.
The music of Jazzpospolita oscillates between jazz, rock and electronics ; it has been compared to bands like Jaga Jazzist or Tortoise . Sometimes her songs are closer to post-rock than jazz.
The band tours extensively in Europe and performs regularly at jazz festivals. 2015 they toured together with Pink Freud by China .
In 2014 Michał Przerwa-Tetmajer's debut album Doktor filozofii was released .
Discography
- Polished Jazz (EP; Ampersand, 2009)
- Almost Splendid (Ampersand, 2010)
- Impulse (Ampersand, 2012)
- RePolished Jazz (Audiocave, 2013)
- Jazzpo! (Postpost, 2014)
- Jazzpo! Live Made in China (Postpost, 2016)
- Humanizm (Postpost, 2017)
- Przypływ (Audiocave, 2020)
Web links
- Internet presence
- Jazzpospolita at Discogs (English)
- Jazzpospolita at Culture.pl (eng.)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bartek Chaciński: recenzja płyty: Jazzpospolita, "Impulse". Polityka , March 9, 2012, accessed September 4, 2016 (Polish).
- ↑ Jacek Świąder: Jazzpospolita. Culture.pl, accessed on September 4, 2016 (English).