Miłość (English: "Love") was a Polish
Yass music band. The band was founded in 1988 by Ryszard Tymon Tymański,
double bassist and guitarist, former leader of
new wave group
Sni Sredstvom Za Uklanianie. Miłość played
free jazz with avantgarde influences and gave birth to, among others, the
Tricity and
Bydgoszcz
Bydgoszcz ( , , ; german: Bromberg) is a city in northern Poland, straddling the meeting of the River Vistula with its left-bank tributary, the Brda. With a city population of 339,053 as of December 2021 and an urban agglomeration with more ...
jazz bands, and to a style called
yass
Yass may refer to:
People
* Catherine Yass (born 1963), painter
* Yazz, a British pop singer from the 1980s and 1990s
* Jeff Yass (born 1956), options trader, managing director and one of the five founders of the Philadelphia-based Susquehanna I ...
. Miłość recorded two albums with the legendary jazzman
Lester Bowie: "Not Two" (1995) and "Talkin' About Life and Death" (1999).
Yass – The Jazz, the Filth and the Fury
Culture.pl. April 2014; retrieved 29 April 2014. The band split up after Olter's death in 2002.
Members
* Ryszard "Tymon" Tymański – double bass, voice
* Jerzy "Mazzoll" Mazolewski – clarinet
The clarinet is a musical instrument in the woodwind family. The instrument has a nearly cylindrical bore and a flared bell, and uses a single reed to produce sound.
Clarinets comprise a family of instruments of differing sizes and pitches ...
(until 1991)
* Mikołaj Trzaska
Mikołaj is the Polish cognate of given name Nicholas, used both as a given name and a surname. It may refer to people:
In Polish (or Polish-Lithuanian) nobility:
* Mikołaj Firlej (died 1526), Polish nobleman, Hetman, diplomat, and expert of sout ...
– saxophones
* Leszek Możdżer – piano (since 1991)
* Jacek Olter
Jacek is a Polish given name of Greek origin related Hyacinth, through the archaic form of ''Jacenty''. Its closely related equivalents are: Jacinto ( Spanish and Portuguese), Giacinto ( Italian), Jácint ( Hungarian) and Jacint (Catalan, shorte ...
– drums
* Maciej Sikała Maciej (Polish pronunciation: ) is a Polish given name, the etymological equivalent of Matthias. Its diminutive forms are Maciek, Maciuś.
Namedays according to Polish calendar: 30 January, 24 February, 14 May
Maciej may refer to:
Arts and ente ...
– saxophones
Discography
* ''Miłość'' (1992)
* ''Taniec smoka'' (1994)
* ''Not Two'' (with Lester Bowie, 1995)
* '' Asthmatic'' (1996)
* ''Muzyka do filmu Sztos'' (with Tymon i Trupy, 1997)
* '' Talkin' About Life And Death'' (with Lester Bowie, 1999)
*'' 1983–1986 (2008)
* ''Nobody's White'' (planned)
References
Polish musical groups
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