Sławek Jaskułke (born 2 January 1979) is a Polish

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and

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. He is also an

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record producer A record producer is a recording project's creative and technical leader, commanding studio time and coaching artists, and in popular genres typically creates the song's very sound and structure.Virgil Moorefield"Introduction" ''The Producer as ...

, and a member of

Zbigniew Namysłowski Zbigniew Jacek Namysłowski (9 September 1939 – 7 February 2022) was a Polish jazz alto saxophonist, flautist, cellist, trombonist, pianist and composer. Life and career Namysłowski was born in Warsaw, Poland, on 9 September 1939. He perform ...

Quintet. He has composed piano, orchestra, theatre, and film music.

Career

Jaskułke has performed at

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in New York City, Symphony Hall in Chicago,

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, and the Moscow International Performing Arts Center, the

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, Berlin Jazz Fest,

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, Padova Jazz Festival, Garana International Jazz Festival, and the Jazz Jamboree. He has performed in dozens of countries around the world and on almost all continents. In 2006 he represented Poland at the Music Beyond Borders Festival in Hong Kong, which resulted with recording an album ''Jaskułke – Hong Kong''. In September 2010 he appeared at the World Expo in Shanghai, presenting a premiere of ''Jaskułke – Chopin for Five Pianos''. He has worked with Petr Cancura, Furio di Castri,

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, David Murray,

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, Tymon Tymanski,

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, and

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. Among his most important awards are: Pegaz – Polish TV award for musical achievements, Jazz Oscar of Music Lovers Association in

Łódź Łódź, also rendered in English as Lodz, is a city in central Poland and a former industrial centre. It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is located approximately south-west of Warsaw. The city's coat of arms is an example of canti ...

, he was a nominee for Fryderyk – Polish Phonographic Industry Award for Jazz Musician of the Year and Jazz Album of the Year for ''Jaskułke - Fill the Harmony Philharmonics'' with Cameral Orchestra Hanseatica.

Discography

* Sławek Jaskułke, ''Moments'' * Jaskułke & Wyleżoł, ''DuoDram'' * Sławek Jaskułke, ''Hong Kong'' * Jaskułke & Hanseatica Chamber Orchestra, ''Fill The Harmony Philharmonics'' * Sławek Jaskułke, 3yo, ''Sugarfree'' * Sławek Jaskułke, ''Live from Gdynia Summer Jazz Days 2001'' * Zbigniew Namysłowski, ''Nice & Easy'' * Zbigniew Namysłowski, ''Assymetry'' * Zbigniew Namysłowski, ''Standards'' * Przemek Dyakowski, ''Melisa'' * Wojtek Staroniewicz, ''Alternations'' * Jacek Kochan, ''Yearning'' * Jacek Kochan, ''Double life of a chair'' * Jerzy Małek, ''Bop beat'' * Pink Freud, ''Sorry Music Polska'' * Pink Freud, ''Jazz fajny jest (remix & live)'' * Sowiński & The Collective, ''llustrations'' * Emil Kowalski ''Plaing Benny Goodman'' * Piotr Zastróżny ''Album. Live in studio'' * Cezary Paciorek, ''Shalom * Novika, ''Tricks of life'' * Waldek Chyliński, ''Słowa'' * Bassisters Orchestra, ''2002'' * Psalmy - Artyści polscy Janowi Pawłowi II w hołdzie''

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jaskulke, Slawek Free improvisation pianists 1979 births Living people Polish jazz pianists 21st-century pianists