Kinga Głyk
Kinga Głyk (born January 27, 1997 in Rydułtowy ) is a Polish jazz musician ( electric bass , composition ).
Live and act
Głyk is the daughter of vibraphonist Irek Głyk. From the age of twelve she performed with her father and brother (on drums) in the family band Głyk PIK Trio .
At the age of 18 she recorded her first album under her own name, Rejestracja . After appearances with their own trio at the Stuttgart Jazz Open Festival or the Festival da Jazz in St. Moritz, the second album, Happy Birthday , followed in 2016 , a live recording from the Teatr Ziemi in Rybnik . Since her videos, initially a solo version of Eric Clapton's " Tears in Heaven ", were clicked on by hundreds of thousands on YouTube , her popularity continued to grow. According to the heute journal , she was considered "the great hope of European jazz" and Głyk received a contract with a major label.
In 2017 her third album Dream was released (now on Warner ), which she recorded with an international quartet (including saxophonist Tim Garland , pianist Nitai Hershkovits and drummer Gregory Hutchinson ). On November 8, 2017, she performed at the Leverkusen Jazz Days .
On November 1, 2019, Głyk released her fourth album, Feelings, on Warner Music with a trio line-up (with Paweł Tomaszewski and Calvin Rodgers, partially expanded to include Pittsburgh keyboardist Brett Williams) .
Web links
- Web presence
- Portrait "Jazz in its most beautiful way" (ZDF heute journal, March 3, 2017)
- Portrait "The new miracle on the jazz bass" (Deutschlandfunk, October 23, 2017)
- Interview (Hans Kumpf, Jazzpages)
- Kinga Glyk: "My instrument is my voice" (Interview 2018). Augsburger Allgemeine , accessed on March 19, 2018 .
- Kinga Głyk at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ portrait (jazz-fun.de)
- ↑ Jazz musician Kinga Glyk: Bass, bass, we need bass! Der Spiegel October 20, 2017
- ↑ Leverkusener Jazztage (1/4): Kinga Glyk. Retrieved December 11, 2019 .
- ↑ meeting (jazz-fun)
- ↑ Feelings (discussion). In: Melodiva. December 30, 2019, accessed January 11, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Głyk, Kinga |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish jazz musician (electric bass, composition) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 27, 1997 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rydułtowy |