Michal Urbaniak Group - Sound Pieces / 3CD set

Two original albums from Michal Urbaniak’s early days and a unique live recording from Radio Bremen, where he presented the tracks from the two albums “Paratyphus B” and “Inactin” before they were released on vinyl a couple of months later. • Michal Urbaniak is one of the biggest jazz stars, violinist, saxophonist, arranger and promoter of young talents of our time. Multi-instrumentalist Michal Urbaniak (violin, saxophone, lyricon). was born in Warsaw in1943 but grew up in Lodz, of which he is an ambassador and honorary citizen.

In 1962 he traveled to the United States for the first time, performing at various jazz festivals with Andrzej Trzaskowski's quintet The Wreckers in Washington DC, Newport, New Orleans and New York. He received rave reviews, including in the New York Times.

From 1969, he led the Michal Urbaniak Group, which consisted primarily of Polish jazz artists, namely Adam Makovicz (electric piano), Paweł Jarcębski (bass), Czesław Bartkowski (drums) and his wife Urszula Dudziak (vocals). The present Radio Bremen concert was recorded with this line-up as well.