Randy Brecker feat Sarnecki, Lemańczyk, Golicki Trio

Five-time Grammy winner headlines Rzeszów Jazz Festival!

Randy Brecker as a special guest of the Piotr Lemańczyk / Rafał Sarnecki / Adam Golicki trio
Randy Brecker - trumpet
Piotr Lemańczyk - double bass, bass guitar
Rafał Sarnecki - guitar
Adam Golicki - drums

The latest project features outstanding Polish musicians who, together with Piotr Lemańczyk, co-created Mike Stern's band on tour. The special guest is the legendary American trumpeter Randy Brecker, who also enriched the band's music with his own compositions. Inspiring, personal songs with a huge spiritual and emotional charge, provide an opportunity for unrestrained artistic expression. It is also a synthesis of musical experiences, but also a striving for something unknown. Contemporary jazz, provided with a beautiful melody and an interesting harmonic structure that pays tribute to the greatest creators of improvised music and creates new solutions.
Randal "Randy" Edward Brecker
He is one of the greatest jazz trumpeters of our time. Five-time winner of the American recording industry Grammy Award.
1997 - Grammy - Best 1997 - Contemporary Jazz Performance, Instrumental - Also cont. Jazz Perf. Vocal or Instrumental - Into the Sun
2003 - Grammy - Best Contemporary Jazz Album - 34th N Lex
2006 - Grammy - Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album - Some Skunk Funk
2008 - Grammy - Best Contemporary Jazz Album - Randy in Brasil
2013 - Grammy - Best Large Jazz Ensemble - Night in Calisia

He has recorded with artists such as Billy Cobham, Bruce Springsteen, Charles Mingus, Blood, Sweat and Tears, Horace Silver, Frank Zappa, Chris Parker, Jaco Pastorius, Dire Straits and many others. He also played on the first Blood, Sweat & Tears album - Child Is Father to the Man, but left the group, along with founder Al Kooper and trumpeter Jerry Weiss. Randy Brecker is the older brother of jazz saxophonist Michael Brecker, with whom he played in the bands Dreams and Brecker Brothers.

Piotr Lemańczyk is considered one of the most outstanding European jazz bassists. He has performed and recorded with such world jazz names as: Mike Stern/USA/ Walter Smith III /USA/, Jerry Bergonzi /USA/, Seamus Blake /USA/, Dave Kikoski /USA/, Tim Hagans /USA/, Brian Melvin /USA/, Gary Novak /USA/, Avishai Cohen-tr /Israel/, Leni Stern?USA/, Soweto Kinch /GB/, Leszek Możdżer, Krzesimir Dębski, Zbigniew Namysłowski, Dominik Wania, MAP, Maciej Sikała and others. He has recorded eight original albums, which have received excellent reviews in such magazines as Down Beat, JazzTimes, Jazz Forum, Jazzpress, The Guardian. He is a laureate of jazz competitions: Jazz Juniors 95 ́ and 96 ́ in Krakow, where he was awarded for individuality, compositions and as the best instrumentalist. Jazz nad Odrą 96 ́ - award for compositions and Pomeranian Jazz Autumn 96 ́, where he received the "Golden Key to Career". He is a member of many leading Polish jazz bands and the only European of the American band BEATLEJAZZ. In addition, he took part in recording over sixty albums with top artists of the Polish jazz scene. In the Jazz Top 2020 Jazz Forum poll, he is ranked third in the "DOUBLE BASS" category and fourth as "MUSICIAN OF THE YEAR" by the Critics. As a leader, he performs in the following bands: PIOTR LEMAŃCZYK Electric Band, PIOTR LEMAŃCZYK Acoustic trio.

Rafał Sarnecki - jazz guitarist, composer, arranger. As a leader of his own musical projects, he has performed in many countries around the world, including China, South Korea, Malaysia, Chile, Israel, and the east and west coasts of the USA. He is one of the few Polish musicians who found his place in the United States, where he lived and created for over a decade. In the years 2009-2019, he was a member of the Lucas Pino No-Net Nonet group, recognized in the USA. He has recorded five original albums, the first of which, "Song From a New Place" (2008, ARMS) and the third, "Cat's Dream" (2014, Brooklyn Underground), were nominated for the Fryderyk Award. The second, "The Madman Rambles Again", was released by Fresh Sound New Talent and placed by the prestigious American editors of "All About Jazz" among the 12 most interesting albums of 2011.
Sarnecki graduated from music studies at the New School University in New York and the City University of New York. In 2015, he defended his doctoral thesis at the Karol Szymanowski University of Music. Fryderyk Chopin in Warsaw. In 2018, he began working at the Academy of Music in Łódź, where he lectures on jazz guitar, composition and arrangement. In 2021, he received a postdoctoral degree.

Adam Golicki - Graduate of Jazz and Stage Music at the University of Zielona Góra in the percussion class of Marcin Jahr and graduate of Jazz at the Instrumental Department of the Academy of Music in Wrocław in the class of Dr. Dariusz Kaliszuk. Currently, he works mainly as a session musician and collaborates with various music bands of different styles.
Winner of 1st place at the National Percussion Competition in Wrocław (2003); with the Paul Band, winner of 1st place and the award for best instrumentalist at the National Festival of Jazz and Blues Bands in Gdynia (2005). In April 2017, he had the opportunity to perform with the Indonesian pianist and his project Dwiki Dharmawan & His Polish Friends at one of the largest jazz festivals in the world, the Java Jazz Festival in Indonesia.
Adam Golicki has two original albums in his discography, which have received excellent reviews from critics. The third album is currently in the process of being released.
He collaborates with musicians such as: Maciej Sikała, Cezary Paciorek, Maciej Grzywacz, Piotr Lemańczyk, Przemek Dyakowski, Dominik Bukowski, Kuba Stankiewicz, Inga Lewandowska, Grzegorz Nagórski, Zdzisław Babiarski, Jan Konop Big Band, BIG Band of the University of Zielona Góra.

Tickets at the price of PLN 99 and PLN 130 presale, PLN 140 on the day of the concert are available at www.niezla-sztuka.pl