Urszula Dudziak & Grzech Piotrowski "Just Duo"
Urszula Dudziak & Grzech Piotrowski "Just Duo"
“Just Duo” is a meeting of two powerful musical personalities. Urszula Dudziak — an extraordinary jazz artist, a pioneer of vocal looping and solo performances, and an international ambassador of Polish music — joins forces with Grzech Piotrowski, whose saxophone playing explores the full range of the instrument’s expressive potential. His distinctive sound has become his artistic signature. Through live looping, he creates vivid musical landscapes that ignite the imagination. Their musical dialogue promises an evening filled with optimism, clever humor, and captivating stories told through both music and words.
Urszula Dudziak is the absolute legend of polish jazz scene – an amazing vocalist, gifted with a four-and-a-half octave voice, she was dubbed „jazz singer of the year” by the Los Angeles Times in 1979. From 1973 to 2003, she lived in New York, where she recorded dozens of albums with Michal Urbaniak for such prestigious record companies as Columbia records, Atlantic records, Arista records. She has performed or recorded albums with such artists as Nina Simone, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Bobby McFerrin, Sting, Gil Evans, Michael Brecker, Herbie Hancock or Archie Shepp, among many others. She performed for two seasons in the Christmas musical “Bending Towards the Light’ in New York alongside Lionel Hampton, Clark Terry, Dave Brubeck, among others. The project premiered at Lincoln Center’s famed concert hall: the Avery Fisher Hall. The album, recorded as a duet with Adam Makowicz and released by Columbia Records, was top rated by the prestigious Down Beat magazine, receiving 5 stars. She is the co-composer of the worldwide hit musical: Papaya. Urszula received an award from the prestigious American arts institution National Endowment of Arts. She performed at the prestigious festival dedicated to Thelonious Monk at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., which was recorded and shown more than once on American television on the HBO channel. A very active and creative artist. She is the author of two books, “I’ll Sing Everything to You” and “I’ll Sing More to You“.
Grzech Piotrowski – is an artist who masterfully balances on the edge of film music, classical, jazz, ethnic traditions, roots, and open improvisation. A graduate of the prestigious Jazz and Popular Music Department at the Academy of Music in Katowice, he studied saxophone and has since carved out a unique space in the contemporary music world. He is known for creating projects filled with space, emotion, and magic — where the harmonious collaboration of exceptional musical personalities and temperaments truly shines. Grzech Piotrowski has been nominated three times for the prestigious Fryderyk Awards (2012, 2013) and received the Mateusz Award from Polish Radio (2012). He won the Grand Prix at the Hoeilaart Jazz Festival in Belgium (1998), the Grand Prix at the Dwa Teatry Festival in Sopot for his score to the play Saksofon Basowy by Josef Škvorecký, and first prizes at Jazz Nad Odrą, Pomorska Jesień Jazzowa, and Jazz Juniors festivals. Throughout his career, he has founded and led numer
