Michał Urbaniak
Michał Urbaniak (* 22. January 1943 in Warsaw ) is a Polish- American jazz - multi-instrumentalist ( violin , saxophone , Lyricon ).
Life
Urbaniak studied violin in Warsaw and learned the saxophone as an autodidact . He played in the quintet of Krzysztof Komeda from 1962 to 1964 . After the band broke up, he went to Scandinavia until 1969 to found his own formation after his return to Poland. In the mid-1970s, he emigrated to the USA with his then wife, the jazz singer Urszula Dudziak , where they were able to establish themselves in the fusion scene . In 1986 he played the album Tutu by Miles Davis as a guest musician , which brought him international attention and finally brought him recognition as one of the most important violinists on the modern jazz scene. Urbaniak recorded other albums under his own name, which illustrate the full range of his repertoire (see discography). He also made a name for himself as a composer of film music.
In 2004 he recorded the highly acclaimed CD I Jazz Love You in New York, where he lived. On this CD Urbaniak experiments with a TalkBox. The result sounds as if he were "speaking through" his violin. Simple passages of text can thus be indicated to the listener. Some stars of the New York jazz scene took part in the recordings. a. Kenny Barron , Lenny White , Ron Carter , Roy Haynes .
He was also heard on albums with the exceptional Polish singer Czesław Niemen , for example on the psychedelic album Niemen Enigmatic (Muza 1969) and on the New York album Mourners Rhapsody (CBS 1974) with u. a. Niemen, Jan Hammer , Rick Laird and John Abercrombie . In the late eighties he produced another US single with Niemen and performed with him at jazz festivals in Poland. In 2005 Urbaniak took part as a star guest at a Polish benefit concert for a children's aid project. This concert took place in the Paulus Hall in Freiburg im Breisgau and was broadcast worldwide via the Internet.
Discography (selection)
- Michal Urbaniak's Group Live Recording (Michal Urbaniak, Adam Makowicz , Paweł Jarzębski , Czesław Bartkowski 1971, LP: Muza Polskie Nagrania SX0733; CD: Muza Polskie Nagrania PNCD 924)
- New Violin Summit (with Don Sugarcane Harris , Jean-Luc Ponty , Nipso Brantner , Terje Rypdal , Wolfgang Dauner , Neville Whitehead , Robert Wyatt ; MPS 1972)
- Fusion (with Urszula Dudziak, Wojciech Karolak , Adam Makowicz, Czesław Bartkowski; Columbia 1973)
- Body English (with Urszula Dudziak, Harold Ivory Williams , Joe Caro, Basil Fearrington, Steve Jordan, Bernard Kafka, Earl Crusher Bennetts. Arista Records 1976)
- Urbaniak (with Zbigniew Namyslowski, Urszula Dudziak, Kenny Kirkland , Tony Bunn, Lurenda Featherstone; 1977)
- Recital - Michal Urbaniak / Vladyslav Sendecki (Four Leaf Clover Records - FLC 5073, 1984)
- Urbaniax - Burning Circuits (Michał Urbaniak / Urszula Dudziak / Vladyslav Sendecki, Sonet - SNTF 917, 1984)
- Songs for Poland (Michal Urbaniak / Vladyslav Sendecki, UBX Productions Inc./Sonet - SNTF 1025, 1988)
- New York Five at the Village Vanguard (1989)
- I Jazz Love You (2004)
- Urbanator III (2005)
- Jazz Legends # 1 (2006)
-
Miles of Blue (2009, PL:
platinum)
literature
- Ian Carr , Digby Fairweather , Brian Priestley : Rough Guide Jazz. The ultimate guide to jazz. 1800 bands and artists from the beginning until today. 2nd, expanded and updated edition. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2004, ISBN 3-476-01892-X , p. 700.
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Web links
- Michał Urbaniak on Myspace
- Works by and about Michał Urbaniak in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Urbaniak, Michał |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Urbaniak, Michal; Urbaniak, Michael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 22, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Warsaw |