Bartlomiej Oles
Encyclopedia
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...
and free improvisation
Free improvisation
Free improvisation or free music is improvised music without any rules beyond the logic or inclination of the musician involved. The term can refer to both a technique and as a recognizable genre in its own right....
drummer, composer
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
and record producer
Record producer
A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
. He is the twin brother of Marcin Oles
Marcin Oles
Marcin Oles is a jazz and free improvisation bass player, composer and record producer. He is the twin brother of Bartlomiej Oles....
and Art-director of the Polish independent Jazz Label Fenommedia.
Bartlomiej Brat Oles studied classic percussion at Music High School Łódź. From 1988 he play on drum set. In his career he played with, Kenny Werner
Kenny Werner
Kenny Werner is an American jazz pianist.-Biography:Kenny Werner is a world-class pianist and composer. His prolific output of compositions, recordings and publications continue to impact audiences around the world....
, Theo Jorgensmann
Theo Jörgensmann
Theodor Franz Jörgensmann is a jazz and free-improvising Basset clarinet player and composer. He has been a professional musician since 1975.-Activities:...
, David Murray
David Murray (jazz musician)
David Murray is an American jazz musician. Murray plays mainly tenor saxophone and sometimes bass clarinet. He has recorded prolifically for many record labels since the mid-1970s.-Biography:...
, Erik Friedlander
Erik Friedlander
Erik Friedlander is an American cellist and composer based in New York City.A veteran of NYC's experimental downtown scene, Friedlander has worked in many contexts, but is perhaps best known for his frequent collaborations with saxophonist/composer John Zorn...
, Chris Speed
Chris Speed
Chris Speed is an American saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer.He studied classical piano from the age of five, and began clarinet at eleven. In high school he took up the tenor saxophone and began studying jazz...
, Christopher Dell
Christopher Dell
Christopher William Dell is a career United States Foreign Service officer who currently serves as the U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Kosovo, after having been posted to Angola and Zimbabwe.-Education:...
, Herb Robertson
Herb Robertson
Clarence “Herb” Robertson is a jazz trumpeter and flugelhornist. He was born in New Jersey and attended the Berklee School of Music...
, Ken Vandermark
Ken Vandermark
Ken Vandermark is an American jazz composer and saxophone and clarinet player.A fixture on the Chicago-area music scene since the 1990s, Vandermark has earned wide critical praise for his playing and his multilayered compositions, which typically balance intricate orchestration with passionate...
, Frank Gratkowski, Simon Nabatov
Simon Nabatov
Simon Nabatov is a jazz pianist.He began playing at three and his first composition was at six. He began his professional career in Rome in 1979 and later attended the Juilliard School. In 1984 Keyboard Magazine named him Best Pianist. In 1989 he left New York City, where he had settled, for Cologne...
, Jean-Luc Cappozzo, Emmanuelle Somer
Emmanuelle Somer
Emmanuelle Somer is a French and Dutch jazz oboist, multiinstrumentist and composer. She is one of the very few jazz musicians who expresses herself on the oboe. Brussels-born, Somer graduated from Brussels Koninklijk Conservatorium in 1993 before attending Berklee College of Music in Boston, USA,...
, Andrzej Przybielski
Andrzej Przybielski
Andrzej Grzegorz Przybielski in Bydgoszcz , was a Polish jazz trumpeter associated with the avant-garde jazz and free jazz scenes.- Career :...
, Mircea Tiberian
Mircea Tiberian
Mircea Tiberian is a jazz musician and professor of music at the National University of Music in Bucharest. He coordinates the Jazz Department, which he set up in 1991.-Musical career:...
, Rudi Mahall
Rudi Mahall
Rudi Mahall is a contemporary jazz bass clarinetist.While studying classical clarinet, Mahall shifted towards contemporary music, improvisation and jazz.He is, or was a member of following bands:...
, Marcin Oles
Marcin Oles
Marcin Oles is a jazz and free improvisation bass player, composer and record producer. He is the twin brother of Bartlomiej Oles....
, Mark Taylor, Anthony Coleman
Anthony Coleman
Anthony Coleman is an American musician. Coleman is a piano and keys player, trombonist and vocalist mainly working within the free improvised and avant-garde jazz scenes in downtown New York during the late 1970s through to the present day.His greatest impact was during the 80s and 90s when he...
, Adam Pieronczyk
Adam Pieronczyk
Adam Pierończyk is a Polish saxophonist, active in the jazz and band leader of the Adam Pierończyk Trio.He studied music at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen.- Discography :...
, Stanley Jordan
Stanley Jordan
Stanley Jordan is an American jazz/jazz fusion guitarist and pianist, best known for his development of the tapping technique for the guitar....
. Since 2003 he has been a member of the Trio Oles Jörgensmann Oles. The Trio recorded four albums Miniatures, Directions this album was voted by the Polish Internet jazz magazine Diapazon as the "Best Recording of the Year 2005", live in Poznan 2006 and Alchemia. His album recorded like leader with great American pianist Kenny Werner was voted as the "Best Recording of the Year 2006" by Polish Radio. In 2007 he start with brother unique project OlesDUO double bass & drums. He also compose music for theatre and movie.
Discography
- Oleś Brothers with Rob Brown Live at SJC (Fenommedia 2009)
- Marcin & Bartłomiej Brat Oleś DUO (Fenommedia 2008)
- Theo Jorgensmann & Oles Brothers Alchemia (HatHut 2008)
- Herb Robertson Trio + Marcin Oleś & Bartłomiej Brat Oleś Live at Alchemia (NotTwo, 2007)
- Marcin Oleś & Bartłomiej Brat Oleś + Theo Jörgensmann Live in Poznań 2006 (Fenommedia 2007)
- Bartłomiej Brat Oleś Shadows (Fenommedia, 2006)
- Marcin Oleś Walk Songs (Fenommedia, 2006)
- Marcin Oleś & Bartłomiej Brat Oleś Chamber Quintet with Friedlander, Rabinowitz, Somer (Fenommedia, 2005)
- Marcin Oleś & Bartłomiej Brat Oleś + Theo Jörgensmann – Directions (Fenommedia, 2005)
- Oleś / Trzaska / Oleś + Jean-Luc Cappozzo – Suite for trio+ (Fenommedia, 2005)
- Ken Vandermark feat Marcin Oleś & Bartłomiej Brat Oleś – Ideas (NotTwo, 2005)
- Andrzej Przybielski feat Marcin Oleś & Bartłomiej Brat Oleś – Abstract (NotTwo, 2005)
- Bartłomiej Brat Oleś – FreeDrum Suite [drums solo] (NotTwo, 2004)
- David Murray feat Marcin Oleś & Bartłomiej Brat Oleś – Circles – live in Cracow (NotTwo, 2003)
- Marcin Oleś & Bartłomiej Brat Oleś + Theo Jörgensmann – Miniatures (NotTwo, 2003)
- Oleś / Trzaska / Oleś – la SKETCH up (1kg, 2003)
- Oleś / Mahall / Tiberian / Oleś – Contemporary Quartet (NotTwo, 2002)
- Oleś / Trzaska / Oleś – Mikro Muzik (1kg, 2002)
- Custom Trio – Back Point (Not Two, 2002)
- Oleś / Pieronczyk / Oleś – Gray Days (NotTwo, 2001)
- Custom Trio & Andrzej Przybielski – Free Bop (Polonia, 2000)
- Custom Trio – Mr. Nobody (WM Accord, 1999)