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Michal Urbaniak is one of the biggest jazz stars. Violinist, saxophonist, composer, arranger, developer of young talents. Since 1973 has lived in New York. Michal Urbaniak became a world famous jazz star after he recorded the “TUTU” album with the biggest – Miles Davis.
During the Montreux 1971 festival, Urbaniak was awarded "Grand Prix" for the best soloist and received a scholarship to the Berklee College of Music in Boston. [1] After many triumphant concerts in Europe and the United States, in May 1973 he played for the last time before a Polish audience and emigrated with Urszula Dudziak on September 11 ...
Oct 14, 2005 · During the late 1960s, many avant-garde musicians in Poland were discovering the free jazz concepts of John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman. Interestingly, due to the isolation of the country, the Polish style developed independently.
Urbaniak: It will be out by the end of April with guest guitar players-Larry Coryell and John Abercrombie. I've been trying to use a guitarist for four years but it never worked fully. In a few months we might add one.
Denys Shpigov talks to Polish jazz legend Michał Urbaniak about his life, his music and the importance of being yourself.
Today we’re meeting Michał Urbaniak, a jazz violinist and saxophone player who became one of the creators of jazz fusion in New York in the 1970s.
Urbaniak won the Grand Prix for Best Soloist at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1971, among other honors. He plays a customized five-string violin, violin synthesizer and violectra (an electronic bowed string instrument an octave lower than a violin), and most famously the lyricon, an electronic saxophone-like instrument which is linked to a ...
