Miść was a Polish

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...

 jazz

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...

 band. The band was founded in 1988 by Ryszard Tymon Tymański, double bass

Double bass

The double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, standup bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2...

ist and guitarist, former leader of new-wave group Sni Sredstvom Za Uklanianie. Miłość played free jazz

Free jazz

Free jazz is an approach to jazz music that was first developed in the 1950s and 1960s. Though the music produced by free jazz pioneers varied widely, the common feature was a dissatisfaction with the limitations of bebop, hard bop, and modal jazz, which had developed in the 1940s and 1950s...

 with avantgarde influences and gave birth to, among others, the Tricity and Bydgoszcz jazz bands, and to a style called yass

Yass (music)

Yass is often defined as a new music style, but it is rather a compilation of many styles, such as jazz, improvised music, techno, punk rock, and folk....

. The band split up after Olter's death in 2002.

Members

• Ryszard "Tymon" Tymański - double bass, voice
• Jerzy "Mazzoll" Mazolewski - clarinet
  Clarinet
  The clarinet is a musical instrument of woodwind type. The name derives from adding the suffix -et to the Italian word clarino , as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet. The instrument has an approximately cylindrical bore, and uses a single reed...
  
   (to 1991)
• Mikołaj Trzaska - saxophone
  Saxophone
  The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...
  
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• Leszek Możdżer
  Leszek Mozdzer
  Leszek Możdżer is a Polish jazz pianist. He is also a music producer and a film music composer.He has graduated from the Academy of Music in Gdansk, Poland...
  
   - piano (since 1991)
• Jacek Olter - drums
• Maciej Sikała - saxophones

Discography

• Miłość (1992)
• Taniec smoka (1994)
• Not Two (with Lester Bowie
  Lester Bowie
  Lester Bowie was an American jazz trumpet player and composer. He was a member of the AACM, and cofounded the Art Ensemble of Chicago.-Biography:...
  
  , 1995)
• Asthmatic (1996)
• Muzyka do filmu Sztos (with Tymon i Trupy, 1997)
• Talkin' About Life And Death
  Talkin' About Life and Death
  Talkin' About Life and Death is an album by Polish jazz band, Miłość, and American jazz musician, Lester Bowie. The songs were recorded in two days in July 1997 in Gdańsk.-Track listing:# "Venus in Furs" # "A Tribute To Drukpa Kunley"...
  
  (with Lester Bowie, 1999)
• Nobody's White (planned)