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Artist
Marcin Masecki
12+ albums
Classicaljazzpianopolandpolonaise
about
From Marcin's website: www.marcinmasecki.com I was born in Warsaw in 1982. When I was six months old I moved with my parents to Popayan, Colombia. My father, a clarinetist, started teaching me simple harmony, rhythm and singing when I was three. At the age of seven I moved with my mother to San Fransisco where I began taking piano lessons. A year later I moved back to Poland and continued studies with my grandmother - one of the best piano teachers I know. Since I was seen improvising little melodies here and there I was also sent to my first jazz piano teacher, Jurek Kossacz. By the time I was 12 I was a regular at the weekly jam sessions in Akwarium Jazz Club in Warsaw. At 14 I entered the F. Chopin secondary music school. Around this time I started playing in my first band, a trio with Wojtek Pulcyn and Grzegorz Grzyb. We toured the various jazz competitions in Poland and won a few awards (listed below). At the "Jazz nad Odra" competition in 1998 I became friends with members of another band - "Acoustic Jazz Sextet". A week later I joined the group and we decided to go under the name "Alchemik". Between 1998 and 2004 we recorded three albums and played a bunch of concerts in Poland, France, Belgium, Holland, Bulgaria and Spain. We also won the main prize at the Jazz Hoeilaart '98 competition. We had a blast. During those years I also played in a band called Oxen. There we played an electric, more agressive jazz. We recorded one album "Nexo", played some of the wildest c
