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artist : Grazyna Auguscik Feat. Jarek Bester
title : Pastforward
date : 2003
label : GMA Records
genre : Jazz
rls. date : March/2005
tracks : 07
bitrate : VBRkbps
size : 72,4 MB
Grazyna Auguscik [gra-je-na][aw-goose-chik]
Singer, composer and producer Grazyna Auguscik has won the
praise and admiration of music critics, jazz enthusiasts and
even non-jazz audiences with a singular voice that speaks a
universal language. Drawing on influences as diverse as Polish
folk music, Bud Powell, Keith Jarrett and Chopin, Grazyna's
elusive style challenges traditional definitions of a jazz
singer without pretense or sentimentality. Her unorthodox
approach to rewriting classic works is at once a tribute to its
authors as well as an adventure into uncharted territory.
Her professional music career She began in Europe, completed
her studies in 1992 at the prestigious Berklee College of Music
in Boston, and has since become a prolific collaborator with
such jazz notables as Michael and Randy Brecker, Bobby
Enriquez, John Medeski, Paul Wertico, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Robert
Irving III, Michal Urbaniak, Terry Callier, Patricia Barber,
Leni Stern, Eric Hochberg, John McLean, David Onderdonk, Ernie
Adams, Ron Perrillo, Jarek Bester and many others.
Amidst her active schedule of performances in the U.S., Europe
and Asia, Grazyna has managed to record, produce and distribute
seven albums, four under her own record label, GMA Records, and
appearing on as many projects as a guest.
Her album "Pastels" was one of the best in 1998, chosen by
National Public Radio listeners. New Millennium brings her
three new albums, and idea for the first World Music Festival
in Poland. "Fragile" in collaboration with one of the best
Brazilian singer and guitarist Paulinho Garcia was TOP 20 JAZZ
ALBUMS of the year 2000 on WBEZ CHICAGO 91.5 FM National Public
Radio.
Her latest "River" 2002 release placed her as one of the
hottest young jazz talents in the country.
In Year 2003 Grazyna is receiving 2002 Twirlie Nomination for
Top 15 FEMALE VOCALISTS and she is nominated by 22nd Annual
Chicago Music Awards for Best Female Vocalist of 2002. In month
of February 2003 She was awarded as Best Jazz Vocal of 2002 by
a prestigious European "Jazz Forum Magazine".
Also 2002 Fujitsu Concord Jazz Festiva awarded her as TOP
VOCAL, and her new album "Hamage" Three for Brazil recorded for
Pony Canyon Records in Japan is on TOP 20 JAZZ ALBUMS in Asia.
2003 freshly released "Past Forward" by Grazyna Auguscik though
it once again resists easy classification because of its
musical eclecticism, is jazz in all its contemporary potential,
pulsating, exhilarating, eastern musical origins leading to the
past, uncanny impression of wholeness, featuring remarkably
talented accordion player Jarek Bester, with her alto - warm
and hypnotic simply brilliant, it is another from "Graz"
must-hear experience.
01-mother (matulu) [09:13]
02-why me (czemu zes mnie) [06:04]
03-soul migration [07:55]
04-lullaby (usnijze mi) [07:28]
05-past forward [08:42]
06-krywan [05:16]
07-no return [05:23]
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