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3rd Zbigniew Seifert International Jazz Violin Competition
by Ian Patterson
3rd Zbigniew Seifert International Jazz Violin Competition Krzysztof Penderecki European Centre for Music Luslawice/Kraków Poland July 25-28, 2018 An international jazz violin competition? Really?" That is usually came as a surprise to the applicants, and eventual participants themselves, that an international jazz violin competition should exist says a lot about the rarity of such an event. Yet as the bi-annual Zbigniew Seifert International Jazz Violin Competition has demonstrated, there is certainly no shortage of truly ...
read moreZbigniew Seifert: Solo Violin
by Ian Patterson
In April 1974, a year after the break-up of Tomasz Stanko's first great quintet, Zbigniew Seifert gave his first solo violin concert. Another solo gig, two years later, produced the LP Solo Violin (EMI, 1978), which, thanks to the tireless efforts of the Zbigniew Seifert Foundation to promote Seifert's legacy, once more finds its way onto CD after years out of print. Following the simultaneous release of Variospheres (Zbigniew Seifert Foundation, 2017)--an exhilarating live recording of Seifert's short-lived, one-tour quartet--the ...
read moreVariospheres: Live in Solothurn
by Ian Patterson
When Tomasz Stańko's first classic quintet came to the natural end of its road in 1973, with all its members looking for new directions in music, violinist Zbigniew Seifert embarked on a solo career that saw him record a number of albums with very different line-ups. In fact, bar a brief period at the end of the 1960s, Seifert never led a steady group for any length of time. This lack of a strong and consistent vehicle may explain why ...
read moreMan Of The Light: The Life And Work Of Zbigniew Seifert
by Ian Patterson
Man Of The Light: The Life And Work Of Zbigniew Seifert Aneta Norek-Skrycka 172 Pages ISBN: 978-83-938054-2-6 The Zbigniew Seifert Foundation 2016 A number of European jazz musicians stand out for having shaped the sound of the music in the past fifty years, for their virtuosity and for having influenced subsequent generations. A partial list would include Django Reinhardt, Joe Zawinul, Jan Garbarek, Jan Johansson, Norma Winstone, Henri Texier, Enrico Rava and Tomasz ...
read moreZbigniew Seifert International Jazz Violin Competition
by Ian Patterson
1st Zbigniew Seifert International Jazz Violin Competition Krzysztof Penderecki European Centre for Music Luslawice/Krakow Poland July 16-19, 2014 He was one of the great jazz virtuosos, right up there some would say with Django Reinhardt, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker. Most frequently, however, he was compared to John Coltrane. The cruelly premature death of Polish jazz violinist Zbigniew Seifert at the age of 32 undoubtedly robbed jazz of one of its most ...
read moreZbigniew Seifert Quartet: Nora
by John Kelman
With a trajectory only starting to expand beyond his native Poland, before succumbing to complications from cancer in 1979 at age 32, it's little surprise that Zbigniew Seifert has flown largely beneath the radar of even the most knowledgeable jazzer. Still, it appears as though overdue attention is finally returning to this remarkable violinist, whose Man of the Light (Promising Music, 1977) remains an overlooked gem of incendiary post-Coltrane modality, and impressionistic, European classicism. A documentary film is underway, and ...
read moreZbigniew Seifert: Man of the Light
by John Kelman
If ever a title was in need of the wider exposure it eluded when first released, it's Polish violinist Zbigniew Seifert's unparalleled Man of the Light--finally seeing the light of day thanks to Promising Music's ongoing series of remastered re-releases from the German MPS label of the 1960s and '70s. Seifert's death from complications from cancer in 1979, at the age of 32, cut tragically short a career that had only begun its upward trajectory in North America with his ...
read more1st International Zbigniew Seifert Jazz Violin Competition Won By Bartosz Dworak
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All About Jazz
The 1st Zbigniew Seifert International Jazz Violin Competition was won by twenty six year old Polish violinist Bartosz Dworak. The competition was conceived of and organized by the Zbigniew Seifert Foundation in order to honor the memory and promote the musical legacy of the great Polish jazz violinist Zbigniew Seifert, who died in 1979 from cancer at the age of 32. More famous abroad than in his native Poland, Seifert’s unique, John Coltrane-esque jazz violin style continues to inspire jazz ...
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Zbigniew Seifert Jazz Violin Competition Draws World's Greatest Upcoming Violinists To Kracow
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All About Jazz
The first edition of the International Zbigniew Seifert Jazz Violin Competition will be held from July 16-19, as part of the 19th Summer Jazz Festival in Piwnica pod Baranam in jny:Kracow, Poland. In addition to commemorating the great Seifert, the organizers of the competition, which is open to entrants from all over the world, hope that it will unearth new violin talent, possibly even another Zbigniew Seifert. Seifert is widely considered as one of Poland’s most important jazz musicians and ...
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Zbigniew Seifert in Memoriam in Berlin - the Polish Presidency 26th November 2011 at 8 pm.
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Norek
A concert dedicated to the great Polish violinist, saxophonist and composer will be held on 26th November 2011 at 8 pm Venue: the French Institute, Kurfürstendamm 211, Berlin Performers: Mateusz Smoczyński Ack van Rooyen Richie Beirach Glen Moore Janusz Stefański ATOM STRING QUARTET Dawid Lubowicz Mateusz Smoczyński Michał Zaborski Krzysztof Lenczowski Artists about Zbigniew Seifert Prof. Richie Beirach: Zbiggy was an angel ...
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Nora: Zbigniew Seifert's First-Ever Recordings Now on CD
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Michael Ricci
We are making up for the mistakes committed by the Polish music industry decades ago. The hitherto unpublished recordings of Zbigniew Seifert Quartet (1969-70) are finally released on CD! The ensemble debuted in 1965 and disbanded in 1970, shortly after their appearance at the Jazz Jamboree festival. No album by the band was ever released. It is only now, forty years after the Quartet's break-up, that their recordings become available to the general public. The CD Nora" is due for ...
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Zbigniew Seifert in Memoriam
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All About Jazz
Cracow Souls Day there will be series of concerts and meetings remembering genius of jazz violinist Zbigniew Seifert (1946 - 1979) called ZBIGNIEW SEIFERT IN MEMORIAM.
Nevertheless his strong and undisputed artistic place in jazz music history, he is still less known for a broad public. Zbigniew Seifert created original violin style which is unique in jazz.
During the festival for the first time a piece composed by Zbigniew Seifert will be perfomed in Poland: Jazz Concerto for violin, symphonic ...
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