SBB (rock band)
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| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Blues rock |
| founding | 1971, 1991 |
| resolution | 1980 |
| Website | http://sbb-band.pl/ |
| Founding members | |
| Józef Skrzek Apostolis "Lakis" Anthimos |
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| former members | |
| Jerzy "Keta" Piotrowski Gabor Nemeth Mirosław Muzykant Paul Wertico Sławomir Piwowar Andrzej Rusek |
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SBB (originally an abbreviation of Silesian Blues Band , later Szukaj, Burz, Buduj ( Search, breaking, building or Search, Break & Build )) is a Polish rock and fusion band .
history
The band was founded in 1969 in Michałkowice . The initiator was keyboardist and bass guitarist Józef Skrzek , who also took over the vocals. He was joined by the guitarist Antymos Apostolis and the drummer Jerzy Piotrowski . At first they mainly played the blues . Between 1971 and 1973 the band worked with the then most innovative Polish rock musician, Czesław Niemen ; with him, Helmut Nadolski and z. T. also Andrzej Przybielski they played several albums under the band name Niemen . In 1974 they decided to record their own LP called SBB . It was created as a recording of two concerts in Warsaw and was characterized by the fact that genre boundaries played no role on it. The band performed at the National Festival of Polish Song in Opole in 1974 and at the Jazz Jamboree in 1974 and 1975 and was enthusiastically celebrated by the audience; perhaps also because they sounded so “western” like no other Polish group before. The first foreign appearances followed, including 1974 in Frankfurt am Main .
The next LPs were characterized by a few, but long pieces that were mostly sung in English. Extensive instrumental passages with extensive solos and elements of progressive rock shaped the music, individual pieces occasionally filled a whole LP page (as with the 1977 record) and were further developed in concert through free improvisation. The range of styles was supplemented on the AMIGA release from 1978 to include light-footed funk in a radio-compatible song format. The last record of the first SBB phase was created under the title Memento z banalnym tryptykiem in 1980, the provisional year of dissolution of SBB.
Later there were four attempts at revival, in 1991, 1993, 1998 and 2000. The sound of the old LPs has been reworked and expanded to include bonus tracks, and historical recordings are published from the archives (such as the concert in Karlstadt in 1975, in which the band spontaneously improvised for 44 minutes beyond all song structures).
Between 2000 and 2007, American drummer Paul Wertico from the Pat Metheny Group performed with Skrzek and Apostolis . SBB has been playing with the original line-up again since 2014. In 2015 SBB performed together with jazz violinist Michał Urbaniak . The group also releases new studio material.
Discography
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With Czesław Niemen
- 1972: Strange is the World
- 1973: Ode to Venus
- 1973: Niemen vol. 1
- 1973: Niemen vol. 2
Original SBB albums
- 1974: SBB (Polskie Nagrania Muza)
- 1975: Nowy Horyzont (Polskie Nagrania Muza)
- 1976: Pamięć (Polskie Nagrania Muza)
- 1977: Ze Słowem Biegnę do Ciebie (Polskie Nagrania Muza)
- 1978: SBB (Supraphon)
- 1977: Jerzyk (Wifon)
- 1978: Follow My Dream (Fried Egg Intercord)
- 1978: SBB (Amiga)
- 1979: Welcome (Wifon)
- 1979: Slovenian Girls (Omnibus BUS)
- 1980: Memento z Banalnym Tryptykiem (Polskie Nagrania Muza)
- 1999: SBB w filharmonii: act 1 i 2 (Yesterday)
- 2000: Good Bye! (Moskito Records)
- 2001: Nastroje (Jazz'N'Java)
- 2003: Wizje - Book + CD (CD Silesia)
- 2005: New Century (Metal Mind Productions)
- 2006: Sikorki (with Tomasz Stańko , Tomasz Szukalski , Andrzej Przybielski and Jan Błędowski )
- 2007: The Rock (Metal Mind Productions)
- 2009: Iron Curtain
- 2009: Behind The Iron Curtain
- 2010: Blue Trance
- 2012: SBB (Metal Mind Productions, with Józef Skrzek, Apostolis Anthimos)
- 2016: za linią horyzontu (Polskie Radio SA, with Józef Skrzek, Apostolis Anthimos, Jerzy Piotrowski)
SBB live albums
- 1994: Live 1993 (Stuff)
- 1994: Live In America '94 (Radio Katowice)
- 1999: Absolutely Live '98 (Yesterday)
- 2001: Karlstad - Live 1975 (Koch Poland)
- 2001: Budai Ifjusagi Park 1977 (Koch Poland)
- 2002: Trio - Live Tour 2001 (CD Silesia)
- 2002: Freedom - Live Sopot 1978 (CD Silesia)
- 2004: October 22nd, 1977 Göttingen, Alte Ziegelei (CD Silesia)
- 2005: Odlot - Live 2004 (CD Silesia)
- 2005: Live In Theater 2005 (CD + DVD)
- 2008: Live In Marburg 1980: The Final Concert
- 2008: Live In Neckargemünd 1978
- 2009: Live in Theater 2005
- 2009: Live in Cologne 1979
- 2009: Live in Opole 1974
- 2009: Live in Frankfurt 1977: Follow My Music
- 2009: Live In Czechoslovakia 1980: Three Quarters (only recording without Jozef Skrzek)
As an accompanying group of Halina Frąckowiak
- 1977: Geira (music: Jozef Skrzek; later republished in Lost Tapes, vol. 2 )
CD boxes
- 2004: Anthology 1974-2004 (22 CDs) ( Metal Mind Productions , PL:
platinum) - 2005: Lost Tapes, vol. 1 (9 CDs, Metal Mind Productions)
- 2006: Lost Tapes, vol. 2 (9 CDs, Metal Mind Productions)
- 2007: Complete Tapes 1974 (2 CDs)
- 2014: Koncerty 1978 1979 1994 (5 CDs, Universal Music Polska)
Video albums
- 2004: Follow My Dream
- 2005: Live In Theater 2005
- 2006: Live 1979
- 2007: Four Decades
- 2009: Behind The Iron Curtain
literature
- HP Hofmann: Beat Lexicon. Performers, authors, technical terms . VEB Lied der Zeit Musikverlag, Berlin (East) 1977.
Web links
- Official website of the band
- SBB on the baby blue pages
- SBB in the Archiwum Polskiego Rocka
- Portrait at ostbeat.de ( Memento from June 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ^ Biography - SBB - music from occupied Silesia . SBB.
- ↑ Chart statistics Poland
- ↑ Awards for music sales: PL