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WACLAW ZIMPELs UNDIVIDED
Waclaw Zimpel - clarinet, bass clarinet, taragota (Poland)
Mark Tokar - double bass (Ukraine)
Bobby Few - piano (USA)
Klaus Kugel - drums (Germany)
UNDIVIDED: music about different levels of human being's consciousness. The way of organizing sounds and time in Zimpel's composition, deals with free jazz tradition, folk music of different cultures and classical music heritage.
The ensemble is also available as a quintet with guests Perry Robinson (cl), André (voice) or Louie Belogenis (ts, ss).
WACLAW ZIMPEL
Waclav Zimpel is a young, highly talented clarinet player from Warszaw who has become part of the international jazz scene. His new project evolves into the Polish folklore and jazz tradition as well as into modern music.
With a changing atonal-free and tonal upto a sentimental-folkloristic concept the four musicians create an abundance of interaction patterns, textures and moods far beyond folklore and jazz.
Born in 1983. He studied classical clarinet with Prof. Zdzislaw Nowak at I.J. Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznan (diploma with distinction in 2008). He studied also with Prof. Johannes Peitz at Hochschule für Music und Theather in Hannover.
On polish music scene Vaslav Zimpel debuted with jazz quintet Emergency, searching his own ways of musical expression, based on jazz tradition and contemporary classical music. His very personal musical language is mainly influenced by works of such artists as Eric Dolphy, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Anton Webern, Igor Stravinsky, Peter Brötzmann, Witold Lutoslawski. Zimpel uses very unique ways of building harmonic and melodic structures combined with strong emotional expression. He cooperated with main avant jazz musicians from different countries such as Ken Vandermark, Mikolaj Trzaska, Theo Jörgensmann, Tim Daisy, Dave Rempis, Mark Tokar, Johannes Bauer.
He has recorded his firs album "The Light" with Wojtek Traczyk on double bass and Robert Rasz on drums for the polish label MultiKulti. He won the Grand Prix on III Zachodniopomorski Festiwal Klarnetowy - national polish clarinet competition.
Waclav Zimpel is a young, highly talented clarinet player from Warszaw who has become part of the international jazz scene. His new project evolves into the Polish folklore and jazz tradition as well as into modern music. With a changing atonal-free and tonal upto a sentimental-folkloristic concept the four musicians create an abundance of interaction patterns, textures and moods far beyond folklore and jazz.
BOBBY FEW
Bobby Few was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in a family of musicians: his father always listened to jazz, his mother played violin and his uncle the trumpet.
He came from a very religious family (his grand father was a Baptist minister) which, without a shadow of a doubt, nourished his musicspiritually.
Bobby Few was only 7 when he studied piano and later musical theory and composition at the Cleveland Institute of Music. He had two private teachers of splendid reputation.
At 16, he started playing in jazz clubs in Cleveland, his hometown. One evening, he met Ella Fitzgerald who was so touched by his tender age that she encouraged him to pursue his path. Soon after, Bobby Few created his own trio and played throughout the USA.
In the early 60's, urged by Albert Ayler, Bobby Few went to New York. There, he made a first record with Booker Ervin "The In Between" (BLUE NOTE) then a second one with Albert Ayler intitled "Music Is The Healing Force of the Universe" (IMPULSE), both recently reedited. He also played with Brook Benton, a rhythm and blues singer, with whom he toured the world. Later, Bobby Few became Benton¹s musical director. Moreover, he played in the 60¹s at the Playboy club where they had a marvellous experience. Then, concert after concert, Bobby Few worked with many prestigious artists such as Archie Shepp, Kenny Clarke, Frank Wright, Joe Henderson, Woody Shaw, Sunny Murray, Roland Kirk, Nat Adderley, Frank Foster, David Murray, Bill Dixon, Albert Ayler or Steve Lacy with whom he toured the world from 1980 until 1992.
During his rich and fruitful career, Bobby Few also took part in morethan 70 recordings: the latest untitled "Kindred Spirits", produced by Box Holder Records (New York), will be released in April 2005.
Bobby Few has lived in Paris since 1969, a town where he found his artistic and intellectual equilibrium. Since 1993, he has directed his own trio and quintet. His musical influences are deeply rooted in jazz with musicians such as Erroll Garner, Thelonious Monk, McCoy Tyner or Cecil TaylorS However classical music has also played an influential role. Few says: "Classical music is one of the avenues leading to jazz because it gives a direction in the harmonic progressions of jazz."
Thus, Bobby Few's music is therefore the fruit of his numerous musical experiences. He is motivated by eclecticism, new sounds and new musical colours. He has succeeded in making us understand that music is universal.
Thanks to his music, he sends us a message of peace, altruism and spirituality: he unites all peoples, whatever their colour, culture or origin.
MARK TOKAR
Mark Tokar graduated from the Lviv Polytechnic University. Upon graduation he attended classical guitar classes at S.Lyudkevych Music College. At the same time he started to play double bass. During 2002-2004 he repeatedly participated in Krakow in the jazzworkshops directed by M. Parkinson (USA).
In 2006 he received the "Gaude Polonia" scholarship program and studied at the K. Szymanowski Jazz Academy under direction of Professor Jacek Niedzela. The program was granted by the Minister of Culture in Poland. During 2005-2006 Mark Tokar was artistic director of the Ukrainian-Polish festival "Jazz Bezz" and of the concert series "Metro Jazz Philharmonic" in Lviv.
He performed and recorded with Ken Vandermark, Steve Swell, Roberta Piket (USA), Klaus Kugel, Arkadij Shilkloper (Germany), Petras Visniauskas (Lithuania), Mircea Tiberian (Romania), Mazzol, Mikolaj Tszaska, Pszemyslaw Borowiecki (Poland), Yuriy Yaremchuk (Ukraine), Magnus Broo (Sweden), Fred Frith (USA) a.o. at numerous festivals all over Europe, Ukraine and Russia.
He recently released two CDs, with Ken Vandermark's project "Resonance" and with Petras Vysniauskas "Five Spot".
KLAUS KUGEL
Klaus Kugel is one of the most inventive and adventurous German drummers. Since 1989 he has been playing intensively with the outstanding lithuanian soprano-saxophonist Petras Vysniauskas and attracted attention worldwide through projects with Karl Berger, Tomasz Stanko, Charlie Mariano, Kent Carter, Michel Pilz, Theo Jörgensmann, Kenny Wheeler, Vyacheslav Ganelin, Bobo Stenson, Glen Moore, Steve Swell, Sabir Mateen, Robert Dick, Peter Evans, Perry Robinson, Perry Robinson, Arkady Shilkloper, Sirone, Eric Vloeimans, Burton Greene, Hilliard Greene, Vijay Iyer, Charles Gayle, John Lindberg, Herb Robertson, Louie Belogenis, Bobby Few, a.o.
Over the past 20 years, he gave numerous concerts and appeared at festivals throughout Europe, the Baltic States, Canada, USA, Syria, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Ukraine and China.
"Most ensembles can only wish for a percussionist with such high skill and perceptive musicianship as Klaus Kugel" - Frankfurter Rundschau, Germany
"... Percussionist Klaus Kugel is a commanding force behind the drum set. He creates layers of tension drawn out from intuitive listening. There is a constant emotional swelling underlying every fill and cymbal crash..."
John Barron, April 2007, JAZZREVIEW.COM, USA
"... These three discs ... show Kugel as a drummer whose nearly boundless energy and imagination cannot be confined by neat categories..."
Ed Hazel, SIGNAL TO NOISE, USA, 2006
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