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Tomasz Dąbrowski is an award-winning Polish trumpeter and composer. With eight albums released under his own name and dozens of CDs as a co-leader and sideman, he is considered one of the most gifted trumpeters and composers in Europe. Tomasz has mostly been known for his work with his groups FREE4ARTS, AD HOC, string of concerts S-O-L-O: 30th Birthday / 30 Concerts / 30 Cities and projects with Tomasz Stańko, Tyshawn Sorey, Riccardo Del Fra and Kris Davis. Tomasz is a member of a Danish musician-run collective and record label Barefoot Records.

In 2017 AllAboutJazz magazine, named Tomasz as one of the 15 most significant European jazz musicians today.

TomDabrowski.com music

Tomasz Dąbrowski FREE4ARTS — Six Months and Ten Drops features seven original compositions, rich in strong ideas and unconventional musical solutions. The music is melodic and multidimensional, inspired by Tibetan chants, slavic heritage and European third stream jazz and avant-garde scene. It has a personal touch and a Scandinavian sense of space. Compositions were written for this specific lineup with one idea: to highlight the musicians’ unique voices and create a band, where the sound of one individual loses its meaning without a context.
Tomasz Dąbrowski - trumpet // Sven Dam Meinild - baritone sax // Jacob Anderskov - piano // Kasper Tom - drums

FREE4ARTS - Six Months [full track]

Full track from IMAGINE SOUND IMAGINSE SILENCE album, Barefoot records 2015. 
Tomasz Dąbrowski - trumpet // Sven Dam Meinild - alto sax // Richard Andersson - double bass // Tyshawn Sorey - drums

OCEAN FANFARE -  4 Is 2 Tight [full track]

track 7 from the Radical Moves album
Tomasz Dąbrowski - trumpet // Nils Bo Davidsen - double bass // Anders Mogensen - drums

TOM TRIO - For The Little One [full track]

S-O-L-O: “30th Birthday/30 Concerts/30 Cities” is Tomasz Dąbrowski’s seventh album as a leader and his first solo recording. This album is the culmination of a series of solo concerts celebrating his 30th birthday performed in 30 cities in 12 different countries over almost seven months, plus three formal recording sessions held in various locations around Copenhagen. The album is made up of 10 songs intended to represent 10 chapters of one story.

A documentary film S-O-L-O: 30th Birthday/30 Concerts/30 Cities, directed by Kristoffer Juel Poulsen, that includes interviews and footage from the recording session, is available on-line along with the album.

S-O-L-O: "30th Birthday/30 Cities/30 Concerts" - Part II

Full track from the album "Ninjazz" by Tomasz Dąbrowski AD HOC. Album released on LP/DL June 15th 2018.

THE JAZZ NINJA
Yet Another (following Steps, Vermilion Tree and Radical Moves) Tomasz Dąbrowski project published by our label, this time it’s a vinyl recorded with a great team, including the following Japanese musicians: the legendary pianist Hiroshi Minami, double-bass player Hiroko Chiba and the drummer Hiroshi Tsuboi. This is the second joint project of the Ad Hoc Quartet, which was formed in 2014, when Tomasz Dąbrowski first visited Japan. Their first album was titled Strings, it was released in 2015. The music from said album was performed during two concert tours in Japan.

A Ninja symbolises the highest level of craftsmanship and refinement in martial arts. A Ninja is a warrior enveloped in a mysterious nimbus – a master of intuition, elusiveness, as well as the unexpected, he is the unseen... consistently and with unerring precision hitting his mark.

How can this album be described? What is this unique Polish-Japanese interaction of thought and sound? "I never dreamed that I’ll have a Japanese band, just like I never expected it to be so easy to create without using verbal communication. Ad Hoc is a band of no words, while its music pours like a wide stream with little use of formal composition, when compared with my previous albums. The Ninjazz album is an important point in my artistic development, it is a full-blown and thought-out album, which very aptly portrays the position of Ad Hoc at this moment, as well as the direction of my artistic exploration. [...] The pieces are so constructed and have such flow as to effectively introduce Slavic melancholy to Japanese audiences, which the Japanese people really appreciate in music, all of this is combined with guided improvisation. Japanese people are typically very reserved, they don’t usually express emotions... that means that those emotions, which every person possesses have to find an outlet somehow. And this is what happens when we play. I have an overwhelming feeling that this Japanese restraint works very well within the context of this band..." - that's what Tomasz Dąbrowski had to say about the project. (FOR TUNE®)

Line-up:
Tomasz Dąbrowski - trumpet // Hiroshi Minami - piano // Hiroki Chiba - double bass & electronics // Tsuboi Hiroshi - drums

LP 
http://store.for-tune.pl/0135-tomasz-dabrowski-ad-hoc-ninjazz
DL
http://soundline.biz/TomaszDabrowskiAdHocNinjazz/
https://bandcamp.for-tune.pl/album/ninjazz

Ninjazz

AD HOC - Lines for Bogdan

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About:
Over the past two years Mike Prigodich’s jazz-fusion compositions have begun attracting attention from many well-known national artists. For him, becoming a cancer patient in 2008 was the big wake-up call that got him to start writing new music, construct a band, start booking gigs, and pursue his dream of becoming a professional jazz musician. According to Prigodich, fellow cancer survivor Lance Armstrong inspired all this. Mike went on to raise over $10,000 on kickstarter.com in 2010 to fund this project which features Damian Erskine, Reinhardt Melz, John Nastos, Brandon Woody, Rafael Trujillo, Patrick Lamb, Tim Jensen, and Paul Mazzio. Emmy award-winning David Mathew also was on board to produce the project. “A Stitch in Time" is a breakout album for Prigodich, who says; “This album is a literally a dream come true and something I've wanted to do since childhood, but it took the life-changing event of a cancer diagnosis to give me the motivation I needed to make it happen. Like Lance Armstrong winning his first Tour de France, this project became my way to LIVESTRONG. It was a great honor and pleasure to work with these incredible musicians and hear my compositions come to life. I look forward to creating more great music in the years to come." Prigodich currently resides in Portland, Oregon and enjoys playing with some of the finest musicians in town who are up to the task of performing his extremely challenging, but accessible compositions. Check out “A Stitch in Time” from Mike Prigodich. A lesson in compositional brilliance coupled with top musicianship alongside one very inspirational story. ENJOY!

All compositions written by Mike Prigodich (Mexican Mocha Music / BMI)
Arranged by Mike Prigodich and Reinhardt Melz

Recorded by Dean Baskerville at Crossroads Productions, Vancouver, WA. Assisted by Benjamin Wood
Additional recording by: David Mathew at ITB, Portland, OR; Mark Griffith at East West Studios, Milwaukie, OR
Mixed by David Mathew at ITB, Portland, OR; Mastered by Steve Hall at Future Disc, McMinnville, OR
Crossroads Productions Studio Manager: Benjamin Wood; Piano Technician: Linda Scott, RPT; Design: Tom Mills; 
Photography: Cortney Erskine, David Mathew, Mike Dehen; Legal: Ted Graffam

℗ and © 2011 Mexican Mocha Music. All rights reserved. 
Unauthorized duplication is a violation of applicable laws. Made in the USA. MPCD-01

See http://www.mikeprigodich.com for more information. 

Mike Prigodich performed on a Steinway D 9-foot concert grand piano, a Korg M50 synthesizer workstation, and a Yamaha Motif-Rack XS sound module.
Damian Erskine uses a Skjold 6-string “Erskine Model” signature bass, Aguilar amplification, D’Addario strings, Planet Waves cables and tuners, iGIG gig bags and cases, Gruv Gear carts.
John Nastos performs on a Patrick Springer tenor saxophone mouthpiece.
Patrick Lamb uses Cannonball saxophones and JodyJazz mouthpieces.

Funded in part via Kickstarter.com. Thanks to all donors for making this recording possible. 

Gold Donors:
Rob Lucke

Bronze Donors:
Justin Brown
Rick Cooper
Robert Hollinger
Craig Thomas
Neil Steiner

Chaos Theory - Mike Prigodich: piano, keyboards * Damian Erskine: bass * Reinhardt Melz: drums * John Nastos: sax * Brandon Woody: guitar * Rafael Trujillo: percussion

Spanish Swordfight (for Adric) - Mike Prigodich: piano * Damian Erskine: bass * Reinhardt Melz: drums * John Nastos: sax * Brandon Woody: guitar * Rafael Trujillo: percussion * Toshi Onizuka: palmas

A Measure Of Luck - Mike Prigodich: piano * Damian Erskine: bass * Reinhardt Melz: drums * John Nastos: sax * Brandon Woody: guitar * Rafael Trujillo: percussion * Paul Mazzio: flugelhorn

At Sixes And Sevens - Mike Prigodich: piano, keyboards * Damian Erskine: bass * Reinhardt Melz: drums * John Nastos: sax * Brandon Woody: guitar * Rafael Trujillo: percussion

Anneka's Dance (Fantasy And Allusion) - Mike Prigodich: piano * Damian Erskine: bass * Reinhardt Melz: drums * Tim Jensen: flute

The Wizard Of Odd (for Reinhardt Wolfgang Melz) - Mike Prigodich: piano, keyboards * Damian Erskine: bass * Reinhardt Melz: drums * John Nastos: sax * Brandon Woody: guitar * Rafael Trujillo: percussion * Paul Mazzio: trumpet

A Stitch In Time - Mike Prigodich: piano * Damian Erskine: bass * Reinhardt Melz: drums * John Nastos: sax * Brandon Woody: guitar

Coreatown - Mike Prigodich: piano * Damian Erskine: bass * Reinhardt Melz: drums * John Nastos: sax * Brandon Woody: guitar * Rafael Trujillo: percussion

Wishful Thinking - Mike Prigodich: piano * Damian Erskine: bass * Reinhardt Melz: drums * John Nastos: sax

Nigel's Theme (This One Goes To Eleven) - Mike Prigodich: piano, keyboards * Damian Erskine: bass * Reinhardt Melz: drums * John Nastos: sax * Brandon Woody: guitar * Rafael Trujillo: percussion

Stevieland - Mike Prigodich: piano * Damian Erskine: bass * Reinhardt Melz: drums * Patrick Lamb: sax * Paul Mazzio: trumpet * Brandon Woody: guitar * Rafael Trujillo: percussion

Digital booklet available here: http://www.mikeprigodich.com/store/StitchInTimeBooklet.pdf