Jazz Bez 2017_ 2 December

Adam Jarzmik Quintet (POL)
Paweł Palcowski – trumpet
Kuba Łępa – tenor sax
Adam Jarzmik – piano
Maciej Kitajewski – contrabass
Piotr Budniak – percussion

 Adam Jarzmik Quintet – winners of this year’s cult Polish festival “Jazz nad Odrą”. The project was launched in 2015 in Katowice. The band presents author music, created by composer Adam Jazmyk. Among the giants of jazz, whose creativity is inspired by band music, the guys point to Brad Mehldau, Aaron Parks and Aaron Goldberg. Apart from his own works, Adam Jarzmik Quintet plays immortal jazz standards, missed due to their feelings and presented in new musical forms. This spring, the band released its debut album “Euphoria”. Each of the participants in the project is a promising musician who is actively performing in Poland and abroad. Among the awards that managed to win the quintet: 2nd place on “Jazz Nad Odrą” in 2016, 1st place “Pro Jazz Festiwal in Kołobrzego”, 1st place at the “Blue Note Competition w Poznaniu”, 1 st place in “Bielskiej Zadymce Jazzowej” and Grand Prix in “Jazz Nad Odrą” 2017
 www.adamjarzmik.com

Mark Tokar Group (UKR-POL-USA)
Mark Tokar – vocal, contrabass, bass guitar
Misha Balog – solo saxophone, tenor saxophone, bansuri, percussion
Alexej Artemov – drums
Tomek Gadecki – tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone

Mark Tokar is a world-class contrabassist, one of the brightest representatives of the Ukrainian
jazz scene. He was a member of the international project of Ken Vandermark "Resonance". He has
played in Undivided, Five Spot, Four, Varpaj, Yatoku. He is also a leader in international projects of Leo’m’art, Mark Tokar’s Quintet та Avtokar. Mark Tokar has a wealth of collaborative projects with such world-renowned jazz musicians as Ken
Vandermark, Bobby Few, Perry Robinson, Steve Swell, Michael Zerang, Tim Daisy, Dave Rempis,
Roberta Piket, Fred Frith (USA), Klaus Kugel, Arkadiy Shylkloper  (Germany), Petras Vishniauskas
(Lithuania), Mirchea Tiberian (Romania), Mikolaj Trzaska, Waclaw Zimpel, Piotr Baron (Poland),
Magnus Broo, Per-Ake Holmlander (Sweden), Mark Sanders (Great Britain). “Mark Tokar is a key figure in the Ukrainian jazz scene” – allaboutjazz.com (USA) “Tokar’s tons of more than lifetime and flawless intonation are avant-garde” – John Vincent Barron, Jazzreview.com (USA)
 www.marktokar.info
Michael Balog – Ukrainian jazz saxophonist, improviser and author of experimental and meditative
music.  A participant of the famous ethno-jazz group ShockolaD, co-author of the project
“ΕΣΧΑΤΟΦΟΝIΑ” and many international collectives.  The author of Radio SKOVORODA.  Teacher
of the School of Modern Music Vedel School. He played in projects Tequila, Afterlight Project, Uzhgorod Big Band, Triangular Matrix, Michael
Balog Project, New Brain Trio.
 www.facebook.com/balogmichael
 Alexey Artemov is a drummer, percussionist, composer.  He has been working in New York for the
last two years as part of the BARK duet, and has produced various theatrical and musical projects.
She collaborates with bands of diverse musical directions: from jazz, avant-garde to rock music
and ambient (“The Brow of Papa”, “RMA Trio”). Tomek Gadeki is a Polish saxophonist.  Enjoys improvisation when the composition is identical to
the performance and is unique.  Founder of the famous improvisation project Olbrzym i Kurdupel.
He plays with such performers as: MikołajTrzaską, Paulina Owczarek, Rafał Mazur, Contemporary
Noise Sextet, Trio TRC, Lonker See. He writes music to films, collaborates with theaters.
www.tomaszgadecki.pl