Michal Urbaniak: News

Warsaw, June 11.2007
To whom it may concern
The International Production Group UBX would like to invite you to participate in URBANATOR DAYS, which is an exciting undertaking addressed to musically talented youth, offering them a unique opportunity to debut their talent on stage with top professional jazz musicians. In Poland there are still far too few initiatives that support young talent. This project gives these talented youngsters a chance to work with real American and European musicians. URBANATOR DAYS attempts to build a bridge between these musicians, thereby presenting new skills and talents in an international forum.
URBANATOR DAYS consists of the following:
Day 1 (27.06.2007): an all-day music workshop lead by Michal Urbaniak and his six-man band from New York and London. During this workshop, the best young talent will be chosen to perform on stage with him and his band at the concert which will take place on the following day. The workshop will be held in the Wola School of Music in Warsaw. The professional artists will be giving lessons in violin, percussion, guitar, voice and keyboards. An internet site has been especially prepared to cover this event so that throughout the entire project the young musicians will be in contact with each other and will be able to learn through chat rooms and e-learning. Various materials will also be made available on this portal. A virtual record label will be formed to distribute CDs and mp3s. A booking agency and a platform for creating internet sites for these young musicians and bands will also be made available.
Day 2 (28.06.2007): at 18.00, there will be a concert in Park Sowińskiego (Elekcyjna 17 in the Wola District of Warsaw), which can comfortably seat 3000 guests. Michal Urbaniak’s URBANATOR band (with musicians from New York and London) will perform as well as other invited guests such as: Mika and November Project (a music group managed and promoted by the Awangarda Foundation. The concert will end with a jam session which will include the young musicians chosen at the workshops held the day before together with the URBANATOR band. The concert MC will be Michael Moritz.
Poland’s Minister of Culture Mr. K.M. Ujazdowski along with the Mayor of the Wola District of Warsaw shall be honorary patrons of this 2-day event.
Media Patrons: Radio PIN, onet.pl, Zycie Warszawy, TVP3 and Newsweek (to be conformed on Monda

Michal Urbaniak’s projekt URBANATOR consists of:


MICHAL CRAIG GORMAN - http://www.myspace.com/mmmikegorman

XANTONE BLACQ - http://www.myspace.com/xanblacq

DAVID ITAL - http://profile.myspace.com/daveital1

OTTO WILLIAMS - http://www.myspace.com/ottowilliams

TROY MILLER - http://www.myspace.com/troymillerdrummer

MICHAL URBANIAK - www.myspace/michalurbaniak

UbxNews
New York, 4/16/07

The New York record label, UBX Records is planning to release a two album series of Michal Urbaniak.
During his music career, Urbaniak has a played with the greatest jazz musicians. On his albums, you will find recordings with the participation of the most famous from the New York and world Jazz scene.
From the first series, „Jazz Legends“, belongs to the best of acoustic jazz.
Most of the recordings were recorded in various music studios and the famous Village Vanguard.
Shortly, the first album from the series „Jazz Legends“ will be released.
Besides Michal Urbaniak, playing on the violin, you will hear musicians such as:
Ted Dunbar –guitar, Kenny Barron – piano, Buster Williams and Roy Haynes – drums. On the following albums in the“Jazz Legends“ series, recordings of the following musicians will be presented alongside Michal Urbaniak.
On piano: Kenny Barron, Michael Gerber, Dave Kikowski , Jim Pryor
Bass players: Buster Williams, Ron Carter, Michael Moore
Drummers: Roy Haynes, Kenny Washington, Lenny White,
Guitarist: Ted Dunbar, Larry Coryell, Gene Bertoncini. On the second series „Fusion Legends“ you will hear such fantastic musicians as:
Marcus Miller, Lenny White, Omar Hakim, Victor Bailey, Steve Gadd, Steve Jordan, Basil Farrington, Larry Coryell, John Abercrombie, Herbie Hancock, Kenny Kirkland, Bernard, Wright, Don Blackman, Nicki Richards, Toots Thielmans, Tom Browne.




A few facts…
It’s important to remember, that in 1974, Michal Urbaniak’s band „Fusion“, played music rich in melody and irregular rhythm inspired by Urban Jazz & R&B music combined at times with his ethnic roots (polish folk music). Since those days, Michal plays on a five string violin especially made for him, on a synthesizer violin, saxophones and on a lyricon (an electric saxophone instrument). This original and creative,and very inovative music called Fusion was met with much enthusiasm in America and around the world. Michal Urbaniak , known as one of the pioneers of Fusion music became an extremely popular artist. This exceptionally well received album „Fusion“ for Columbia Records, made it possible for the artist/composer to continue recording albums in similar styles, such as; „Atma“ and „Fusion III“ which were the leading projects on Michal Urbaniak’s path of success both as Columbia recording artist and worldwide touring atraction. He easily promoted his new sound, the unusual combination of Polish folk with beloved black music and with electric rock sounds.. In 1975 – 1989, the group „Michal Urbaniak Fusion“ not only attracted manymusic lovers, fans, exceptional jazz musicians, but also created a community of young musicians that later played with artist’s such as Miles Davis, Whether Report, Santana and Sting. Michal, himself played of Miles Davis’s record „Tutu“ and preformed with him. These musicians among others will appear on the next series of records that will be released on Ubx, as „Fusion Legends“
It will be a series were one can find everything that shows how exceptional Michal Urbaniak ahd his friends are both in acoustic jazz and electric jazz fusion.
Coordinated with records releases, Ubx Booking is putting together preformances by the Michal Urbaniak band with his wonderful guests
By: Ubx Productions Inc. 145 West 58th St.#10B, New York, NY 10019, USA
Ph: +1646797300, Fx: +12122082422, Skype: urbguru or ubxteam
joe@ubx.net, info@ubx.net, www.urbaniak.com, www.urbanator.com

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