Marcin Jahr
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Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
drummer
Drummer
A drummer is a musician who is capable of playing drums, which includes but is not limited to a drum kit and accessory based hardware which includes an assortment of pedals and standing support mechanisms, marching percussion and/or any musical instrument that is struck within the context of a...
, studied drums at The Music Academy in Katowice
Katowice
Katowice is a city in Silesia in southern Poland, on the Kłodnica and Rawa rivers . Katowice is located in the Silesian Highlands, about north of the Silesian Beskids and about southeast of the Sudetes Mountains.It is the central district of the Upper Silesian Metropolis, with a population of 2...
, Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
. He finished his studies in 1992 earning a diploma of jazz music (Department of Jazz and Popular Music). Before that, he had taken part in jazz competitions during Jazz Juniors Festival in Cracow, winning prizes and distinguishing rewards. Since the beginning of his musical career (in 1985) he has taken part in festivals in Poland such as Jazz Jamboree
Jazz Jamboree
Jazz Jamboree Festival, one of the biggest and oldest jazz festivals in Europe, takes place in Warsaw. Organized by .-History:The first Jazz Jamboree was organised by Hot-Club Hybrydy. It was three days long and it was called "Jazz 58". The first three editions of the festival took place in the...
in Warsaw
Warsaw
Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...
, Jazz on the Odra in Wrocław, Poznań
Poznan
Poznań is a city on the Warta river in west-central Poland, with a population of 556,022 in June 2009. It is among the oldest cities in Poland, and was one of the most important centres in the early Polish state, whose first rulers were buried at Poznań's cathedral. It is sometimes claimed to be...
Jazz Fair. He also played on the festivals abroad - Pori Jazz Festival’ 88 with Wiesław Pieregorólka Big Band and Istanbul Festiwal’ 93 with Polish - Turkish Ensemble. Every year (since 1991) he teaches the drums at Jazz Workshop in Puławy in Poland, and also he taught at Jazz Workshop in Leichlingen, Germany (1992, 1994). Marcin Jahr played or cooperated with many Polish and foreign musicians like: trumpeters Tomasz Stańko
Tomasz Stanko
Tomasz Stańko is a Polish trumpeter, composer and improviser. Often recording for ECM, Stańko is strongly associated with free jazz and the avant-garde....
and Piotr Wojtasik, guitar player Garrison Fewell, saxophonists Jan "Ptaszyn" Wróblewski
Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski
Jan "Ptaszyn" Wróblewski is a Polish composer and tenor saxophonist most linked to jazz.He began his musical career in 1956 at Polish festivals. He went on to tour around the world and for a decade, starting in 1958, he directed the Polish Radio Jazz Studio...
, Janusz Muniak, Zbigniew Namysłowski, Adam Wendt, the band "New Presentation" with female vocalist Lora Szafran, vibraphonist Volker Greeve, bassist Ed Schuller
Ed Schuller
Edwin G. Schuller is an American jazz bassist and composer.Schuller was born in New York City; his father is Gunther Schuller and his younger brother is drummer George Schuller. Schuller learned clarinet and guitar as a child and switched to bass at age 15; that same year he had his first...
and many others.
Marcin Jahr is the member of the band "Funky Groove" (who’s CD "Go To Chechua Mountain" was the ‘2003 Best Electric Jazz Recording in "Gitara & Bas Magazine" Reader’s Poll. He also performs with various bands of Jacek and Wojciech Niedziela and other great musicians. He can be heard on following CD’s: "Wooden Soul" with bassist Jacek Niedziela, "Chopin" with pianist Krzysztof Herdzin and on later recordings (see: selected discography). The CD he recorded with Piotr Wojtasik titled "Lonely Town" and released by Power Bros. was chosen as the Record of the Year 1995 in "Jazz Forum Magazine" Readers Pool. In October 1997 he was a finalist of The First Competition for Jazz Drummers in Grodzisk Mazowiecki
Grodzisk Mazowiecki
Grodzisk Mazowiecki is a town in central Poland with 26,881 inhabitants in 2006. It is 30 km. southwest of Warsaw.Between 1975 and 1998 it was situated in the Warszawa Voivodeship but since 1999 it has been situated in the Masovian Voivodeship. It is the capital of Grodzisk Mazowiecki...
, Poland. At present time he cooperates with almost all Polish jazz musicians, first of all with well known saxophone player Jan "Ptaszyn" Wróblewski
Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski
Jan "Ptaszyn" Wróblewski is a Polish composer and tenor saxophonist most linked to jazz.He began his musical career in 1956 at Polish festivals. He went on to tour around the world and for a decade, starting in 1958, he directed the Polish Radio Jazz Studio...
. Between 2004 and 2008 he also taught drums at a jazz department on University of Zielona Góra
Zielona Góra
Zielona Góra is a city in Lubusz Voivodeship, in western Poland, with 117,557 inhabitants within the city limits and 294,000 inhabitants within the metropolitan area, including three neighbouring counties ....
, Poland and at many jazz clinics.
Selected discography
- Jacek Niedziela - "Wooden Soul" (Polonia Records CD 025)
- Piotr Wojtasik - "Lonely Town (Power Bros. PB 00137)
- Karol Szymanowski - "Sześćsił" (Polonia Records CD 060)
- Krzysztof Herdzin - "Chopin" (Polonia Records CD 056)
- Leszek Kułakowski - "Interwały" (Polonia Records CD 072)
- "The Other Side of Polonia Records" (Polonia Records CD 064)
- Jacek Niedziela/Wojciech Niedziela - "Jazzowe Poetycje" (KOCH Int. 33863-2)
- Funky Groove - "Funky Groove" (Polygram Polska - Mercury 536 043-2)
- Ewa Bem "Bright Ella’s Memorial" (KOCH International 33957-2)
- Jan "Ptaszyn" Wróblewski - "Henryk Wars Songs - Live in Tarnów" (CD Sound Int. CDSCD 103)
- Krzysztof Herdzin - "Being Confused" (CD Sound Int. CDSCD 106)
- Jacek Niedziela - "Sceny z Macondo" (CD Sound Int. CDSCD 108)
- Brandon Furman – "A Bard’s Tale" (Polonia Records CD 185)
- Leszek Kułakowski "Katharsis" (Not Two Records MW 708-2)
- Wojciech Niedziela - "To Kiss the Ivorys" (Polonia Records CD 229)
- Leszek Kułakowski - "Eurofonia" (Not Two Records MW 717-2)
- Wojciech Majewski "Grechuta" (Sony Jazz) (2001)
- Funky Groove "Go to Chechua Mountain" (GRAMI 2002)
- 0-58 - "Tryby" (0-58records 001)
- Jan "Ptaszyn" Wróblewski Quartet – "Real Jazz" (BCD CDN 10/PRK CD 0068)
- Bisquit - "Inny smak" (Kayax)
- Jan "Ptaszyn" Wróblewski Quartet – "Supercalifragilistic" (BCD CDN 14)
- Kasia Stankowska - "Passions" (OLPRESS 01)
- Adam Wendt Power Set (Adam Wendt/Boogie Production 5904003980961)