• Mikołaj Sarad -  alto & soprano saxophones, piano
  
• Krzysztof "Freeze" Ostrowski - live electronics
  
• Rafał Gorzycki –drums, piano, harmonica
  

The ensemble was founded on the initiative of composer and percussionist Rafał Gorzycki.  It is more than a  composing platform, creating comfortable conditions for the creative process in the demanding and difficult field of contemporary and improvised music.  The ensemble features graduates of the Feliks Nowowiejski Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz — composers, instrumentalists, sound designers, and music producers all rolled into one collective. The artists who create the group specialize in classical, electronic, jazz, and contemporary music. The band works on musical material which, in the form of graphic scores, musical notation, and aleatoric instructions, is regularly recorded during recording sessions and released on CD albums.  The first album called “Jazz for Mr. Ives, Jazz for Mr. Serocki” (label - Opus Series by REQUIEM REC.) recorded with Bartłomiej Chmara. The second album, “Ricercar for Miles, Ricercar for Elvin,” will premiere in the winter of 2025/6.

"Trying for years to answer the question - is jazz dead, I have repeatedly recognised this and turned away from it. Among other things, that's why I took up composition. I found it a much richer and more attractive space for me. Every so often, however, I would come across music that made me feel that I was wrong. Willy-nilly, I isolated myself from jazz until it came to a moment when I was ready to weave it into my new language and say jazz is alive. I was reminded of Herbie Hancock's words about how jazz will be a living music as long as, and as long as, there are artists in the world who try to do different, new and sometimes strange things with it.

Jazz for Mr Ives, Jazz for Mr Serocki" is such a project, which aspires to be avant-garde by proposing, no longer new, but still on the sidelines, a transgressive path. We put into your hands a vision of our jazz, the jazz of the next decades of the 21st century inspired by the jazz-loving, greatest innovators and revolutionaries of the 20th century - Charles Ives and Kazimierz Serocki."

Rafał Gorzycki

listen or download  album  "Jazz ... " for free  from  BandCamp

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