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GREG ZLAP

The answer is blowin' in the wind

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NEXT SHOW NOT TO MISS
GREGTIME ! Tribute to...
... ROBERT JOHNSON, BB KING, WILLIE DIXON, HOWLIN' WOLF, BOB DYLAN, RAY CHARLES, ROLLING STONES, JJ CALE, TAJ MAHAL, ELVIS, SONNY TERRY, SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON II, PAUL BUTTERFIELD, LITTLE WALTER, JUNIOR WELLS...
For over 10 years GREGTIME has been the venue not to miss down at UTOPIA, the Parisian temple of blues. Every first Monday of the month Greg Zlap invites friend musicians to join in for an improvised tribute to a blues related artist. There is no rehaersal, no soundcheck, the band gets together for one single show! Pure spontaneity and creative spirit make it a unique musical experience each and every time !


UTOPIA79 rue de l'ouest 75014 Paris | Tel +33 143 227 966 | Show at 10pm
GREGTIME! They came & played :
JEAN-YVES dANGELO , THIERRY ANQUETIL , FRANK ASH , OLIVIER BALDISSERA , CYRIL BARBESSOL , SLIM BATTEUX , AXEL BAUER , DENIS BENARROSH , MARINE BERCOT , LUC BERTIN , VINCENT BIDAL , GILLES BIOTEAU, BENOIT BLUE BOY , FRANCOIS BODIN , SOPHIE BOURDON, SIMON BOYER, JULIEN BRUNETAUD , VINCENT BUCHER , THIBAULT CHOPIN , PAT BOUDOT LAMOT , JACKY BOULADOUX , HERVE BRAULT , MATHIEU CANALI, SEBASTIEN CHARLIER , SEBASTIEN CHOUARD , LAURENT COKELAERE , BERTRAND COMMERE , THOMAS COEURIOT , LARRY CROCKETT , JOHAN DALGAARD , CHRISTOPHE DESCHAMPS , GUY DELACROIX, BILL DERAIME , DIMITRI DOMAGALA , JIMI DROUILLARD , MANU DUCLOUX , ARNAUD DUNOYER DE SEGONZAC, CHRISTOPHE DUPEU , FRED DUPONT , PIERRE DURAND, JEAN-MARIE ECAY , LAURENT FAUCHEUX , FRANCOIS FAURE , KIM FIELD, MANU GALVIN, MARTIN GAMET, CHRISTOPHE GARREAU , LOÏC GAYOT , DAVE GOODMAN, MARC GRELIER , JEROME GUEGUEN, FABIEN HAIMOVICI, MARC JACQUEMIN , JUAN SEBASTIEN JIMENEZ , OLIVIER KER OURIO , MICHEL-YVES KOCHMANN , FRED KOLINSKI, ERIC LAFONT , URBAIN LAMBERT, CHRIS LANCRY, CLAUDE LANGLOIS , BRUNO LASNIER , RENE LEBHAR, BART LECZYCKI , BASILE LEROUX, PHILIPE LEROUX, JL MAHJUN , JB MANIS , FRANCO MANNARA , MATHIS AND THE MATHEMATIKS , CHARLY MERCIER , JACQUES MERCIER , GILLES MICHEL, PASCAL MIKAELIAN , FAB MILERIOUX, MANU MILLOT , JJ MILTEAU , TOMA MILTEAU , NICO MIRANDE , PETER NATHANSON , JULIEN OME, CHARLES PASI , RENAUD PATIGNY, ROMAIN PETITE , FRANCOIS PETIT, VINCENT PERROT , CLAUDIA PHILLIPS, LOIC PONTIEUX , JEAN PHILIPPE ROUX, JEAN-DO SALLABERRY , ERIC SAUVIAT, MAURO SERRI , ERIC SEVA, IAN SIEGAL , YANNICK SOCCAL , ERIC STARCZAN , LIONEL SUAREZ , PILI TEMPO , ERIC THIEVON , MAR TODANI , NINA VAN HORN , MANU VERGEADE, LAURENT VERNEREY , PATRICK VERBEKE , MARTY VICKERS, DANY VRIET, JIM ZELLER . . .

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/16/2006
Band Website: gregzlap.com
Band Members: GREG'S NEWS : :

Influences: DISCOGRAPHY : :

Greg Zlap - Road Movie(s):

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Greg Zlap - Devils & Vodka:
2 CD Set Box [Remastered]

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Greg Zlap - Harmonica Madness:
2 CD Set Box [Remastered]

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GREG AS SIDEMAN...



Sounds Like:

BIO : :
Born in 1971 in Warsaw, Poland, Greg Zlap (Greg Szlapczynski) moves to Paris in the late eighties bringing a small Blues Harp in his pocket. After Computer Science studies Greg switches to harmonicist's career. Constantly perfecting new techniques and innovating to highlight his art, he becomes a highly respected studio musician as well as composer and leader.
Greg Zlap records for or plays with the cream of french pop artists (CHARLES AZNAVOUR, JONNY HALLYDAY, FRANCIS CABREL) and film music writers (VLADIMIR COSMA). He colaborates with french blues and jazz artists (JJ MILTEAU, BILL DERAIME, JM ECAY) as well as with the underground Slam and Spoken Word movement (SPOKE ORCHESTRA, D' DE KABAL, EVA DT).
With his elegant and lyrical work on the diatonic, Greg Zlap proves that a new generation of harmonicists is on the rise! He runs projects on the borderline of blues and jazz, with acoustic or electro influenced sound. As a leader, he succesfully releases four albums.

PRESS : :
«Il aborde avec autant d'aise le jazz européen que le blues américain sans jamais oublier son âme slave» : LA PRESSE (Montréal)

«In the world of music, this harmonica player is a prodigy» : FRANCE SOIR

«Con su singular minimalismo expansivo, el intrepido Greg Zlap es el mas rugiente joven leon de la armonica en Francia» : LA VANGUARDIA

«To jeden z czolowych europejskich wirtuozow harmonijki» : GAZETA WYBORCZA

«One of the best current blues albums. In the vein of Truffaz or Saint-Germain, he charges his blues with electronic sounds and still manages to sound like John Mayall» : LE POINT

« ...hes a virtuoso of the instrument. He doubles as a strange, sensitive and inventive composer» : JAZZMAN

«Here is the whole history of music rewritten in the vital breath of the most day to day of instruments, that Greg Zlap handles as a perfectionist craftsman with incandescent expressivity.» : LE PARISIEN


Record Label: Souffle du Blues / IDOL / NOCTURNE
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

> The Blues Brothers !

EVERYBODY NEEDS SOMEBODY ! AND WE ALL NEED GREGTIME !!What a night! Another great Gregtime with a completely new Theme & Line Up... Tribute to The Blues Brothers! The rythm section was driven by Toma ...
Posted by GREG ZLAP on Tue, 13 May 2008 08:36:00 PST

> TAJ MAHAL

GREGTIME ! Tribute to Taj Mahal!Last monday was the first monday of april, so it was time for GREGTIME down at Utopia! I think it was one of the most exiting Gregtimes of the last 2 years! We discover...
Posted by GREG ZLAP on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 07:50:00 PST

> AMAZING BRODUR HARMONICAS

Hello to all harmonica lovers... What might at first look like an elegant box of chocolates is in fact a brand new set of harmonicas made by Raymond Brodur.Each Brodur harmonica is a state of art obje...
Posted by GREG ZLAP on Thu, 27 Mar 2008 06:31:00 PST

> J.J. CALE

Hello Everybody!If you missed the last JJ Cale tribute Gregtime down at Utopia, here’s a new video (thanks to Berndt for filming) from the concert. Enjoy! ...
Posted by GREG ZLAP on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:40:00 PST

> KNOCKIN ON DEVILS DOOR...

Nouvelles fraîches, très fraîches...Brrr! Voici le 2ème teaser du nouvel album de GREG ZLAP... avec IAN SIEGAL dans le rôle du diable : ...
Posted by GREG ZLAP on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:09:00 PST

> JOHNNY HALLYDAY & GREG ZLAP - STAR ACADEMY

Hello!Last friday I had a great pleasure to play the harmonica with our national hero rocker, JOHNNY HALLYDAY. It was the final of STAR ACADEMY contest, a very popular TV show, and Johnny was singing ...
Posted by GREG ZLAP on Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:45:00 PST

> GREG ZLAP - the road movie begins...

Voilà le premier teaser du nouvel album! C'est un extrait de l'enregistrement du premier titre de l'album, Wedding Theme (Opening), avec le guitariste SEB MARTEL au studio Mercredi 9 à Paris. A suivre...
Posted by GREG ZLAP on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 05:49:00 PST

> GREG ZLAP - NEW ALBUM

Hello les amis!La préparation du nouel album touche à sa fin, vous pouvez écouter un extrait en avant-première,le titre WEDDING THEME (OPENING)sur le MySpace dédié spécialement à ce projet: ECOUTEZ Aj...
Posted by GREG ZLAP on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 05:20:00 PST

> JOHNNY HALLYDAY

This is the new video clip of Johnny. The images come from recording sessions in Los Angeless, a concert at Olympia (Paris), and a Warner Music Show from december 2007. You can see James Harman on the...
Posted by GREG ZLAP on Mon, 21 Jan 2008 06:38:00 PST

> JOHNNY HALLYDAY - Disques dOr

Another TV show with Johnny Hallyday... Single "Chavirer les foules"! Johnny Hallyday - Chavirer Les Foulesenvoyé par wonderful-life1989...
Posted by GREG ZLAP on Sun, 06 Jan 2008 03:17:00 PST