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P.G.R. - about the project

P.G.R. – Projekt Grzegorza Rogali, is a jazz project expressing the idea of combining cultures and musical genres. The concept includes a dialogue between Polish, Jewish and classical music. We can find out about it by listening to 4 CDs. The first of them, released in 2011 „Enthuzjazzm”, is an exotic mix of klezmer and jazz music. The next album „Poezjazz”, released in 2014, is primarily a more personal dimension, but also poetic lyrics: the biblical „Song of Songs” and fragments of „The Hourglass Sanatorium” by Bruno Szulc. Both albums were recorded with Israeli saxophonist Sagit Zilberman. It was P.G.R. & Zilberman that inaugurated the formation.
Grzegorz Rogala also created P.G.R. Latin Fire – a musical bridge connecting lively Polish melodies with Afro-Cuban music full of fire and clave, giving concerts with such musicians as the „diamond” of the Cuban saxophone – Regis Molina Reynaldo.

Polish Psalter” take us back to the times of the Renaissance. Show „Melodies for the Polish Psalter” by Jan Kochanowski to the music of Mikołaj Gomółki in a completely new version. The Renaissance four-voices became a canvas for classical-jazz „journeys”, in which music from more than four centuries sounds surprisingly contemporary.The next part is the jazz-mainstream P.G.R. quartet, saturated with the leader’s personal references.

P.G.R. received a scholarship from the Berklee College of Music twice, his music has been hosted on the UK Jazz Radio and on many music stages in the USA, Poland, Ukraine, Germany, Sweden, France, m.in.: Jazz in the Ruins, Głogów International Jazz Meetings. The White Stork Synagogue, the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Flugery Lvova, the Stockholm Jazz Festival.

P.G.R.- o projekcie

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