Kuba Płużek – First Album
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Kuba Płużek – piano, Dawid Fortuna – drums, Marek Pospieszalski – saxophone, Max Mucha – bass
V Records / Universal 5903111377021
In April, the “First Album” of phenomenal young jazz pianist Kuba Płużek was released. According to the V Records website:
V Records presents the debut album by young jazz pianist Kuba Płuzek, the great hope of Polish and european jazz. In a phenomenal way he merges an instrumental virtuosity with great knowledge of the history and present of improvised music, fearlessly crossing borders of genres (swing, modern and free jazz, pop, blues, even boogie-woogie). Soon, for sure, he will be one of the most sought-after musicians of his generation in Poland and not only.
Kuba Płużek (1988) was born and lives in Cracow, Poland. Despite his young age (and not having completed a formal musical education!) he has already collaborated with greatest of polish artists as Janusz Muniak, Zbigniew Namysłowski, Maciej Sikala, Stanislaw Soyka and Piotr Baron. He has performed at festivals in Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine, Bulgaria, France, Switzerland (Montreux Jazz Festival), Germany and Austria.
“First Album” was recorded in two instrumental configurations: the trio (with Max Mucha on bass and David Fortuna on drums ) and the quartet (with saxophonist Marek Pospieszalski). The band plays exclusively original compositions by Kuba in a style widely understood as the jazz mainstream.
Listen to some of the great music on this album at www.youtube.com.
[Sources: ruchmuzyczny.art.pl, v-records.pl]