Mikołaj Trzaska
Mikołaj Trzaska (born April 7, 1966 in Gdańsk ) is a Polish jazz musician ( alto saxophone , bass clarinet , keyboards ) and composer .
Live and act
From 1989 to 2001 he studied at the Art Academy in Gdańsk under Włodzimierz Łajming ; at the same time he began to study the music of John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman and took lessons in saxophone. Since 1986 he has been part of the band of bassist Tymon Tymański ( Sni Sredstwom Za Uklanianie ), from which the Yass formation Miłość (with Tymański, Leszek Możdżer , Maciej Sikała , Jerzy Mazzoll and Jacek Olter ) emerged at the beginning of the 1990s recorded, two of them with Lester Bowie .
In 1993 he made his debut with his own formation Łoskot at the first Gdynia Summer Jazz Days Festival. With Tymański he formed the duo Masło in 1994 , which played humorous versions of rock and jazz standards . In 1995 he made his debut album Cześć, Cześć, Cześć on Gowi Records. At the end of the 1990s he cooperated with the Krakow band Świetliki ( Cacy, cacy Fleischmaschine ), with Marcin Świetlicki in a jazz poetry project ( Cierpienie i Wypoczynek ) and the NRD quartet with his old colleagues Mazzol, Tymański and Olter ( Sport i Religia ).
In 2000 he founded the Kilogram Records label with his wife Ola Trzaska . Since the end of Miłość he worked a. a. with Marcin and Bartłomiej Oleś ( Mikro Muzik , La Sketch Up and Danziger Strassenmusik ), Noël Akchoté , Paul Wirkus , Johannes Frisch (including Kammerflimmer Kollektief ), Peter Brötzmann ( Malamuth , Goosetalks ), Joe McPhee and Jay Rosen ( Intimate Conversations ; McPhee invited he also invited to his clarinet quartet Ircha to record the album Lark Uprising ), Ken Vandermark ( Resonanse ), Noah Rosen , Hannes Bauer , Michael Zerang , Clementine Gasser , Bernhard Loibner , Joachim Roedelius and the Vienna Improvise Orchestra . On the occasion of Günter Grass ' 80th birthday in 2007 he was part of an orchestra made up of German and Polish musicians. He is friends with the writer Andrzej Stasiuk , with whom he recorded the album Kantry (2006). In collaboration with Jurij Andruchowytsch , Andruchoid (2005) was created, on which Andruchowytsch reads out his own poems, accompanied by Trzaska, Macio Moretti and Wojtek Mazolewski . Since 2011 Trzaska has been working with Remont Pomp , a band of mentally handicapped people who use everyday objects as percussion instruments. Together they recorded two albums, Złota platyna (2012) and Pomp Power (2016).
After 2005 he devoted himself increasingly to Jewish music, a. a. in the projects Shofar (with Raphael Rogiński ) and Ircha (a clarinet quartet with Wacław Zimpel ). He also works closely with the Polish director Wojciech Smarzowski and has composed and recorded the soundtracks for his films Dom zły (released on CD as Dark House ), Róża ( Mikołaj Trzaska gra Różę ), Drogówka , Pod Mocnym Aniołem and Wołyń . In 2017 he was awarded the Polish Orzeł Film Prize for the music for Wołyń .
On the occasion of Trzaska's 50th birthday, a number of concerts of his projects were held as part of the Jazz Jantar festival in Gdansk.
Trzaska's first solo album, Delta Tree , was released in 2016, and it was received very positively.
Play style
Trzaska plays a number of woodwinds . His main instruments are alto saxophone and bass clarinet , but he also occasionally plays baritone saxophone , metal clarinet and zurna . He is known for his "wild" style of play and for the fact that he sometimes deliberately plays "wrong". He himself emphasizes that, especially at the beginning of his career, he used expressiveness to cover up technical defects. According to his own statement, he was only convinced by his friend Raphael Rogiński to play melodies.
Discographic notes
- Not Two ( Miłość with Lester Bowie , 1994)
- Talkin 'about Life and Death (Miłość with Lester Bowie, 1997)
- Amariuch (Łoskot, 1998)
- Unforgiven North (2004) with Peter Friis Nielsen , Peeter Uuskyla
- Orangeada (2006)
- Intimate Conversation (2008) with Joe McPhee , Dominik Duval, Jay Rosen
- Resonance (2010) with Ken Vandermark
- Goosetalks (2010) with Peter Brötzmann and Johannes Bauer
- Lark Uprising (Ircha Clarinet Quartet with Joe McPhee, 2010)
- Dark House (2010)
- Ha-huncvot (Shofar, 2013)
- Inem Gortn (Riverloam Trio, 2014) with Olie Brice , Mark Sanders
- Delta Tree (solo, 2016)
- 9/12/16 (Otoroku, 2018) with Seymour Wright
Film music (selection)
- 2009: Dom zły
- 2011: Róża
- 2012: Drogówka
- 2013: Pod Mocnym Aniołem
- 2016: Summer 1943 - The End of Innocence (Wołyń)
- 2018: Clergy
Web links
- Trzaska's website
- Portrait with extensive discography (until 2006)
- Mikolaj Trzaska at Allmusic (English)
- Mikołaj Trzaska at Discogs (English)
- Mikołaj Trzaska in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Kilogram Records
- ↑ Lark Uprising . Review of Lyn Horton in JazzTimes
- ↑ Pomp Power - Remont Pomp. Culture.pl, January 19, 2017, accessed on September 19, 2017 .
- ^ Trzaska 50 , accessed March 23, 2016.
- ↑ 50. urodziny Mikołaja Trzaski. Zobacz wideo! Polskie Radio Dwójka, May 17, 2016, accessed May 18, 2016 (Polish).
- ↑ Solowe płyty. Wielka improwizacja Mikołaja Trzaski. (No longer available online.) Newsweek Polska, April 20, 2016, archived from the original on April 23, 2016 ; Retrieved April 23, 2016 (Polish). 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.
- ↑ Mikołaj Trzaska: niepokój czasu pogardy. (No longer available online.) Onet.pl, October 20, 2016, archived from the original on November 6, 2016 ; Retrieved November 6, 2016 (Polish). 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.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Trzaska, Mikołaj |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 7, 1966 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gdańsk |