Music

Filip Żółtowski Quartet

Filip Żółtowski Quartet combines the traditions of jazz Improvisation with modern sounds and Melodic themes, also drawing on Polish folklore. It is a fusion of jazz music, often highly improvised, with electronic sounds, inspired by producers known more from the pop or EDM music scene (e.g. Flume, Medasin), as well as hip-hop beats in the style of James Yancey (J. Dill). If we were to define the main connecting point of this fusion of genres, it would be jazz, inspired by  Steve Coleman and Five Elements, Theo Crocker and Brad Mehldau.

The band already released two albums - "Humanity"(2021) which was well received both in Poland and abroad(120 K views of the album on YouTube) and "BiBi"(2024) with Polish music company Alpaka Records. The quartet played at many festivals including: Jazz Jantar (Gdańsk), Lublin Jazz Festival, Cesky Rozhlas Jazz Fest (Prague) and Batch Festival (Brno). Another great distinction was the performance in the exclusive series of JAZZ.PL concerts on the 2nd Program of Polish Radio, as well as taking third place at the Blue Note Competition in Poznań and being recognized by the JazzPoPolsku foundations at the Jazz Juniors competition in Krakow.

Members

Filip Żółtowski

Trumpet, Moog

Szymon Zawodny - Saxophone

Member of The Whoop Group saxophone quartet and saxophone educator at the Academy of Music in Gdańsk . A versatile musician specialized in classical and contemporary music, but performing also jazz andentertaining genres. In 2018 he was nominated for the prestigious polish award Koryfeusz Muzyki Polskiej, as a member of The Whoop Group for its debut album “Crimes”. In 2023 he received a Fryderyk 2023 award for the album „Warsaw Saxophone Orchestra feat. The Whoop Group”.  He also got Fryderyk 2024 award in Jazz Debut of the year, for his album "Zero Waste" with Szymon Zawodny Quintet.

Mikołaj Stańko - Drums

Mikołaj Stańko comes from a musical family his mother is famous jazz polish vocalist. He got jazz drums master degree at  Stanisław Moniuszko Academy of Music in Gdańsk. He took part in many music festivals and clubs including: Budapest Opus Jazz Club, Buxtehude Kulture Centrum, Mahnmal St. Nicolai Hamburg,  Jazz Jantar, Jazz in the Forest, and many others. He has collaborated with bands such as: Krystyna Stańko Quintet, Daria Zawiałow, DowntownBrass,  Kinga and Karolina Pruś, Łukasz Reks, Piotr Lemańczyk Electric Band, He perfected his skills at courses and workshops under great musicians of world class, such as: Gregory Hutchinson, Robert Luty,  Cezary Konrad, Tyler Hornby, Greg Osby, Mark Soskin, Matt Penman, Rory Stuart, Corey Fonville and many others. He is a winner of the following awards: "Individuality" Award - Blue Note Jazz Competition, 2021 "Instrumentalist" Award at the Soundela 2023 Festival

Wojciech Wojda - Synthesizers, Rhodes 

Wojciech Wojda is synthesizers player who got his master degree in Jazz Piano at Academy of Music in Gdańsk Co-founder, member and vocalist of the band babyhats, with whom he has traveled all over Europe more than once. Composer and producer who composed music for a film, as well as for his own band debut album, which you may hear about in the near future.

Żółtowski Sekstet

Szymon Kowalik(Saxophone), Dominik Łukaszczyk(Trombone), Jan Jarecki(Piano), Maciej Sadowski(Double bass), Mikołaj Stańko(Drums) and Filip Żółtowski(Trumpet).

Project is an attempt to break down barriers in thinking about acoustic jazz music. The material is a search for new sounds and solutions oscillating around modern jazz, groove and sonorism. Sound, emotions and energy are three words that perfectly describe this material. The band plans to record an album in 2025 and release it in 2026. At the moment you can listen to the song "Vice" recorded in 2023.

Music

 production 

Ola Chaładaj - Ciao

Natalia Muianga - Głodne Plotki

Movie Composition 

+48 505 995 468

filipzoltoquartet@gmail.com

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