Artists Unite Issue

77 years ago, the vinyl LP was introduced in New York City.
WFUV in New York is paying a tribute of sorts this morning.

Many jazz players follow a tradition of jazz standard: improvising over chord changes where if you know the tune, you can try to keep up. Others go for free jazz: flowing spontaneously with the gods of musical invention. Last night I got to enjoy an extraordinary young musician who dances a middle ground. Mateusz Kolalowski performed at the Jazz Standard with veteran reed man Dave Liebman. Kolakowski works with the standard repertoire, but takes off in a delightful variety of rhythmic and harmonic directions that leave you just enough connection to the tune to help with that joy of familiarity we all have, while showing the richness of his inner compositional musings.

Here’s the intro from the Polish Cultural Institute:

Mateusz Kolakowski, whom the Polish Cultural Institute presented at age 15 playing at the Knitting Factory with U.S. clarinetist Brad Terry, comes back at 21, with three albums to his credit and many musical awards, including the prize for “most promising pianist” at the Martial Solal competition, Paris, 2002, and an honorable mention in the Jazz Piano Competition at the 2002 Montreux Jazz Festival. In 2003, his solo recital in Prague was recorded by Czech Radio during the “8th International Festival of Jazz Piano.” A CD of the performance “14th Spring” was released in Poland by Jazz Forum. In his solo piano improvisations, Ko?akowski creates a unique marriage of jazz and elements of classical music. He continues to receive wide acclaim from leading jazz critics.

Here are some tastes:

http://cdbaby.com/cd/mateusz
http://www.audiolunchbox.com/album?a=169521
or on itunes

top photo via Polish Cultural Institute © Carolina Los

From:       zjoajr@tom.com
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To:       editor@artistsunite-ny.org

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A news blast about our committed board member Rosa Naparstek:

Rosa Naparstek is in Paris at a UN conference in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights. As cofounder and a director of Artists unite, Rosa is representing the Greater New York Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Non-Violence. Their initiative “International Artists for Peace and World Harmony” is the subject of roundtable discussion.

The conference activities also include an exhibition, “Sketching Human Rights,” shown here.

image: Human Rights, by Jerry Robinson, USA, curator of “Sketching Human Rights.”