Leszek Zadlo

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Leszek Zadlo, 2009 in the Krakow Tower in Nuremberg

Leszek Zadlo (born April 4, 1945 in Krakow , Poland, Polish spelling Leszek Żądło ) is a Polish jazz musician ( soprano and tenor saxophone , flute , composition ) and university teacher.

Live and act

Zadlo studied music in Krakow, Vienna and Graz. Having already worked as a jazz musician in Kraków, he founded his International Quartet in Vienna in the mid-1960s after moving to Austria . He was also part of the improvisation group of the Swedish trombonist Eje Thelin, who teaches at the Graz University of Music, until the end of the 1960s . From the beginning to the middle of the 1970s he was a member of the ORF Big Band and the Erich Kleinschuster Sextet; he also worked on productions by Dexter Gordon , Friedrich Gulda , Dusko Goykovich and Michał Urbaniak . In his Leszek Zadlo Ensemble he then played from Munich a. a. with the trumpeter Johannes Faber and the pianist Bob Degen ; He is currently working in this ensemble with Bill Elgart and Paulo Cardoso . He also worked in Ali Haurand's European Jazz Quintet with his saxophone colleagues Alan Skidmore and Gerd Dudek . In 1983 he founded the Polski Jazz Ensemble with Vladyslav Sendecki , Bronisław Suchanek and Janusz Stefański , which was also involved in jazz and poetry productions ( The Waltz from the End of the World , 1985). Together with the organist Claus Bantzer he played in churches and was repeatedly brought in by Joachim Ernst Berendt to productions of the Südwestfunk . He has also recorded with Klaus Weiss , Volker Kriegel , Bobby Stern , Rimona Francis , Günter Lenz , Michael Naura , Werner Pirchner , Chris Beier , Rainer Glas and Biréli Lagrène . As a guest soloist, he has participated in numerous big band productions, such as Thad Jones , Slide Hampton , Martin Schrack , Experimenti Berlin and the formations of NDR , WDR and RIAS .

Zadlo has been a professor at the University of Music Würzburg since 1986 and was appointed professor in 2003. He has also worked on film music , for example for the film Men by Doris Dörrie . Despite the harmonic and linear freedom of a post- Coltrane saxophonist, his playing is characterized by seemingly melancholy lyricisms.

Discographic notes

Konstantin Kostov , Agnieszka Hekiert and Leszek Zadlo
  • Rainer Glas Universal Ensemble : The Rainbow Suite (2010) with Johannes Faber, Jörg Widmoser , Peter O'Mara , Jan Miserre, Carola Gray , Biboul Darouiche , Peter Knoll
  • Rainer Glas Universal Ensemble : (2007) with Andrey Lobanov, Torsten Goods, Jan Miserre, Carola Gray , Peter Knoll, Talabani Dilshad
  • The Jazz Age Ensemble (2006) with Rainer Glas, Bernhard Pichl , Harald Rüschenbaum , Torsten Goods , Andrej Lobanov
  • Leszek Zadlo / Claus Bantzer Illumination: Improvisations for Saxophone and Organ (1995)
  • Rainer Glas Chris Beier Leszek Zadlo Space (1994)
  • Leszek Zadlo / Harold Rubin / Parpar Springtime in Winter (1990)
  • Leszek Zadlo Ensemble: Breath (1989) with Chris Beier, Rainer Glas and Bill Elgart
  • Leszek Zadlo Ensemble: Tour de France (1987) with Chris Beier, Rainer Glas and Jurek Bezucha
  • Overtone Orchestra (1985) Rags & Sagas with Tony Lakatos, Marty Cook, Chris Beier, Rainer Glas,
  • Rudolf Roth
  • Overtone feat. Leszek Zadlo As Time Went by (1984) with Chris Beier, Rainer Glas and Rudolf Roth
  • Leszek Zadlo: Sting (1980, with Bob Degen, Günter Lenz, Joe Nay )
  • Leszek Zadlo: Time Emit (1977, with Johannes Faber, Bob Degen, Gary Todd , Joe Nay)
  • Leszek Zadlo: Thoughts (1976, with Joe Haider , Isla Eckinger , Joe Nay)
  • Leszek Zadlo Ensemble Inner Silence (1973, with Butch Kellem , Dick Sells, Gerhard Herrmann, Peter Ponger )

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed November 28, 2013)
personal data
SURNAME Zadlo, Leszek
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Żądło, Leszek
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Krakow