In august after the short tour with Michał Wierba – p. Francesco Angiuli – db and Flavio Li Vigni – dr. Przemysław Strączek will record his next author album called The white grain of coffee. The album will appear in 2013. Besides main staff in album will take part special guests. In september Przemysław Strączek will take part in recording session in debiut CD of singer Karolina Śleziak for who he made arrangments and composed music. Premiere of this CD will be in the begining of 2013.
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On 20 th of february at 21:00 Przemek Straczek will be a guest of jazz broadcast run in Radio Jazz by Kacper Pałczyński & Roch Siciński. The broadcast is connected with new album called “Evans” .
New album of Przemek Straczek is going be on february 2012. This album was recorded in duo with excelent guitarist Teriver Cheung from New York during common summer tour . In this CD called “Evans” there are mostly compositions of Bill Evans. Besides his music there will be Mazurkas F dur of F. Chopin in oryginal version and Jim Hall’s Waltz New.
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CD is under of auspicies of: Jazz Forum, Top Guitar, Radio Jazz, Radio Kielce, Jazzarium, Jazz Press, Polish Jazz Net, Śląski Jazz Club.
From 26 th october to 5 th november Przemyslaw Straczek International Group will perform with fantastic polish and italian musician during his tour in Poland. Piotr Schmidt – tp, Francesco Angiuli db and Flavio Li Vigni – dr. They will give concert in concert halls and main polish jazz clubs. This band had great tour in UK in march 2011. This tour is under of auspicies of European Jazz Magazine – Jazz Forum, Jazz Radio, Top Guitar, TV Katowice, Radio Katowice, Silesia Jazz Club.
On 27 th of may Przemyslaw Straczek received a honourable badge “Merited for Polish Culture” awarded by Culture Minister of Polish Government Bogdan Zdrojewski.
Przemyslaw Straczek International Group performed in U.K. from 25th to 27th of march giving three concerts: 25/03/11 Charlie Wright’s International, 26/03/11 Jazz Posk Cafe, 27/03/11 Coventry Culture Hall Adsum. First time the group appeared in international staff : Piotr Schmidt – tp.(PL), Przemyslaw Straczek – g.(PL), Francesco Angiuli – db. (ITALY) Flavio Li Vigni – dr. (ITALY). The program of concerts regarding the last album of P. Straczek Light & Shadow.
Przemyslaw Straczek took part as a one of seven finalists only from Europe on Thailand International Jazz Conference Solo Competition 2011. Grand Prix – only one prize was avarded got Panai Imjai from Thailand. Jury from New York: Danilo Perez, Ben Street, Adam Cruz emphasised nice technic, musicality and a lot of knowledge of playing of Przemek what was written on evaluated dokuments. Besides there was organized very interesting workshops run among other by Kurt Rosenwinkel, Danilo Perez, Andreas Oberg, Ben Street.