Zbigniew Seifert (1946-1979), who died tragically young, is known as a virtuoso jazz violinist, yet his music was at least as significant because of his characteristic "Seifertiian" style.
The EABS plays music in a similarly innovative spirit as anno Krzysztof Komeda, to whom a full album was dedicated in 2017 entitled Repetitions (Letters to Krzysztof Komeda), rethinking his hardly-known compositions. The band is one of the Polish representatives of the worldwide jazz renaissance of the last decade, insofar as they, like some popular American and London bands, drew a whole new audience into the jazz genre by drawing inspirations from the underground scene.
The twenty years old RGG trio is one of the most important representatives of Polish acoustic jazz. His contemplative music made them to one of the most acclaimed and sophisticated formations of the Polish jazz scene. This time, the material of the Seifert Project addressed to Zbigniew Seifert will be presented to the Hungarian public.
The Atom String Quartet combines the potential of the string quartet with improvisation in a very open conception. In addition to jazz, they draw on Polish folk music as well as traditional melodies from many regions of the world, and even contemporary and classical music. They arrive at the Opus Jazz Club with material from their fourth album, Seifert, which pays homage to the jazz composer Zbigniew Seifert, in which they place the original compositions in a whole new context.
Featuring:
EABS
Marek Pędziwiatr - piano, synths, vocal
Paweł Stachowiak - bass
Jakub Kurek - trumpet
Olaf Węgier - tenor sax
Marcin Rak - drums
RGG:
Maciej Garbowski - double bass
Łukasz Ojdana - piano
Krzysztof Gradziuk - drums
ATOM STRING QUARTET:
Dawid Lubowicz - violin
Mateusz Smoczyński - violin
Michał Zaborski - viola
Krzysztof Lenczowski - cello