czwartek, 9 grudnia 2010

New Trio

It was amazing meeting, beautiful concert with really kind people. Tim Daisy and Mikola Trzaska. I played with Mikolaj few times before  but it was first time with Tim. Just want to say one thing: it is really easy play with good musicians - music is coming and You don't have to think about it. Amazing experience.  Tomorrow we'll play on jazz festival in Sanok. I hope we will continue in future.

niedziela, 21 listopada 2010

Mockunas/Strid/Mazur Trio

It is new band. Raymond Strid - amazing Swedish drummer, Liudas Mockunas - great sax player from Lithuania and me. We met week ago in Centre of Contemporary Art "Solvay" in Krakow, made recording and played concert. Now we have around 4 hours of music and think about CD.

Ad Libitum Festival

This year Ad Libitum was combine with SIC! festival of dance. I played with amazing musicians and dancers: Anna Zielińska, Benno Voorham, Andrew de Lotbiniere Harwood, Zdzisław Piernik, Daniel Lepkoff and Mikolaj Trzaska. It was great time. Thank You Ilona Trybula and Krzysztof Knittel.

Unison Lines

Finally CD is ready and You can buy it in Not Two e-shop. We met with Keir 11 years ago and still we play together. Thank You Keir, it is still amazing experience. Art work is made by Blacke, of course.

niedziela, 26 września 2010

środa, 22 września 2010

Howohucka Jesień Gitarowa

New project, new music! I played in trio with great Brazilian guitarist Alieksey Vianna and my friend Wiesław Jamioł. It was opening concert of Guitar Festival "Nowohucka Jesień Gitarowa" in my city - Nowa Huta. Amazing experience!! We played music of Ralph Towner, Egberto Gismonti and other brasilian stuff. Was really great!!Most of my past fascinations are came back :-)

wtorek, 31 sierpnia 2010

Improart

I started new project "Polish Improart"- presentation of polish art of improvisation abroad - . First event - concert of Trzaska/Mazur duo for beginning of artistic season in Beograd, Serbia. Organized by Centre Polonius Pegaz.

środa, 30 czerwca 2010

Mazur/Neuringer online album

"Improwizje" it is small album released by Insibordinations netlabel.
You can listen it HERE.

New band

In fact I just revitalized PROCESS, my old electro-acoustic band, with small but important changes. Now it is Rafal Mazur Electro-Acoustic Quartet (in future could be quintet, sextet etc.).

wtorek, 4 maja 2010

Theatre and Ensemble 56

Last week I spent  near Warszawa with Piotr Bikont's "The Badow Theatre Society" where I prepared music for spectacle "1410" based on original middleages chronicle of Jan Dlugosz.  The premiere will be at 24 of May in Warszawa.
Immediately after that I played  concert with Ensemble 56 at "PiecArt Acoustic Jazz Club" in Krakow. Really friendly place and concert was amazing!!

czwartek, 8 kwietnia 2010

Workshop of collective spontaneous improvisation

Lecture and workshop in Lublin. In workshop I will present  technics of preparation to collective activity, technics came from martial art which I treat as a one of paradigm of activity in group. And the technics of preparing for cooperation ("negative cooperation" in prakseology) in martial arts are most useful in my opinion (since 5 years I practise TaiJi Quan Chen). If You are interested in what we (as an artists-improvisers) can learn from masters of martial art, let You come to Lublin in Poland. Here You can read about it (only in polish): http://warsztatykultury.pl/?p=351

niedziela, 21 lutego 2010

Why Thomastik?

Lot of people asked me: why Thomastik-Infeld? There are not so popular strings for bass guitar. I can say only: there are the best strings for acoustic bass guitar which I've ever used. Clear?

56 again


Today me and Mietek Górka (drummer of Ensemble 56) had a meeting with Wawrzyniec, owner of label Multi Kulti Project. It seems that in October Ensemble 56 will have second CD, live recording with special guest - amazing polish sax player Piotr Baron. As usual music is recorded by Rafal Drewniany DTS Mobile Studio.

niedziela, 14 lutego 2010

środa, 3 lutego 2010

Today, video with part of my solo concert at Munster Guitar Festival is "Daily Video" on All About Jazz .
Here You can watch it. Enjoy!!