Michał Urbaniak

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Michal Urbaniak
Michal Urbaniak in 2019
Michal Urbaniak in 2019
Background information
Born (1943-01-22) 22 January 1943 (age 81)
Warsaw, Poland
GenresJazz, jazz fusion, funk, hip hop
Occupation(s)Musician
Instrument(s)Violin, lyricon, saxophone
LabelsUbx
Websitewww.urbaniak.com
Michał Urbaniak, concert on 2019 at the Guido Mine, Zabrze as part of the LOTOS Jazz Festival at 21. Bielska Zadymka Jazzowa

Michał Urbaniak (born January 22, 1943)

symphonic music
.

History

He was born in

Dixieland band, and later with Zbigniew Namysłowski[1] and the Jazz Rockers, with whom he performed during the Jazz Jamboree festival in 1961. After this, he was invited to play with Andrzej Trzaskowski, and toured the United States in 1962 with the Andrzej Trzaskowski band, the Wreckers, playing at festivals and clubs in Newport, San Francisco, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and New York City
.

After returning to Poland, he worked with Krzysztof Komeda's quintet (1962–1964). Together, they left for Scandinavia, where, after finishing a couple of contracts, Urbaniak remained until 1969. There he created a band with Urszula Dudziak[1] and Wojciech Karolak, which gained considerable success and was later to be the starting point for the Michał Urbaniak Fusion.

After Urbaniak returned to Poland and the violin (which he abandoned for the saxophone during the time in Scandinavia), he created the Michał Urbaniak Group, to which he invited, among others, Urszula Dudziak (vocals),

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, 1973, to the United States, where he now lives as a U.S. citizen.

Despite getting an award from Berklee, he did not study there. Recommended by

John H. Hammond, Urbaniak signed a contract with Columbia Records, who published the West German album Super Constellation under the name Fusion.[1] For the tour, he invited Polish musicians, including Czesław Bartkowski, Paweł Jarzębski and Wojciech Karolak. In 1974, Urbaniak formed the band Fusion and introduced melodic and rhythmic elements of Polish folk music into his funky New York-based music.[1]
With this band Urbaniak recorded another album for Columbia in New York: Atma.

Urbaniak followed his musical journey with innovative projects such as Urbanator (the first band to fuse rap & hip-hop in jazz), [citation needed], Urbanizer (a project with his band and four-piece R&B vocal group, 1978) and UrbSymphony. On January 27, 1995, UrbSymphony performed and recorded a concert with a rapper and a 60-piece symphony orchestra.

Since 1970 Urbaniak has been playing his custom-made, five-string violin furnished especially for him, a violin

Avery Fisher Hall
.

Urbaniak has played with Billy Cobham, Buster Williams, Chick Corea, Elvin Jones, Freddie Hubbard, George Benson, Herbie Hancock, Joe Henderson, Joe Zawinul, Kenny Barron, Larry Coryell, Lenny White, Marcus Miller, Quincy Jones, Ron Carter, Roy Haynes, Vladyslav Sendecki, Wayne Shorter, and Weather Report. In 1985, he was invited to play during the recording of Tutu with Miles Davis.

In 2012, he acted in the Polish film My Father's Bike.[2]

Discography

As leader

As sideman

With Urszula Dudziak

  • 1976 Urszula
  • 1977 Midnight Rain
  • 1979 Future Talk
  • 1983 Sorrow Is Not Forever...But Love Is

With others

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 0-85112-580-8
    .
  2. ^ "FNE at T-Mobile New Horizons Polish Days: My Father's Bike". Archived from the original on 2013-06-16.
  3. AllMusic
  4. ^ "Michal Urbaniak | Album Discography | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 22 October 2017.
  5. ^ "Michal Urbaniak | Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 22 October 2017.

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