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About Me

KARIMSKI (Karim Martusewicz) - Bass Player, Composer, Arranger, Song Writer & Producer.The creator and founder of Karimski Club ( www.myspace.com/karimskiclub )...... Born in Tripoli (Libia), Karim grew up in Warsaw.At the age of sixteen he began playing bass guitar. Two years later he started studying classical and jazz upright bass in High School of Music. In that period, he founded the well known Polish fusion band Woobie Doobie and worked as a bass player in the musical “Metro” in Warsaw. In 1994 he was accepted to study at the renowned University of Music – Jazz Department, in Graz, Austria. There he studied under the great jazz musician Prof. Wayne Darling. Still a student, he started playing with various artists all over Europe, for example with Delmar’s Brown World Pop experience at the Montreux Jazz Festival’97. After graduating from the jazz academy in Graz he moved back to Poland and became known as a member of the legendary group Voo Voo. Although he is focused on his own project “Karimski Club” and playing bass for Voo Voo, he also works as a session musician, composer and arranger collaborating with artists such as Fisz, Zakopower, Justyna Steczkowska, Maria Peszek. For the last several years he has taught at the Cracow School of Jazz and Popular Music and he also collaborates with Webster University in St. Louis.

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Music:

Member Since: 3/1/2007
Band Members:
Influences: Miles Davis, VooVoo, Frederic Chopin, Sergei Rachmaninov, Marcus Miller, Richard Bona, Doug Wimbish, Charlie Haden, Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen, Wayne Darling, Mariusz Bogdanowicz, AleXdrum, Gil Evans, Bob Marley, Bootsy Collins, James Brown, Meshell Ndégocello, Paul Simon and his Graceland, Jazzanova
Sounds Like: DISCOGRAPHY: with KARIMSKI CLUB: "karimski club" 2007with VOO VOO: "Trebunie-Tutki i VooVoo-Nootki" Gazeta Wyborcza 2007 ; "21" (with Tomasz Stanko,Malgorzata Walewska ) EMI Music PL 2006 ; "XX" Sony/BMG PL 2005 ; "Trój?zwieki" Sony Music PL 2004 ; " VooVoo z Kobietami" (with Urszula Dudziak,Anna Maria Jopek) Sony Music PL 2003 ; "Muzyka ze slowami" with Maria Peszek,Jan Peszek) Sony Music PL 2002 ; "Plyta" Sony Music PL 2002 ; soundtrack from "Tytus,Romek i Atomek wsród zlodziei marzen" Sony Music PL 2002 ; "Plyta z muzyka" Sony Music PL 2001 ; "Koncert w Trójce" Music Corner 1999 with OTHERS: Maria Peszek " Miasto Mania" Kayax 2005 ; Zakopower "Musichal" Kayax 2005 ; Anna Chowaniec-Rybka "Gwiazdkowo Opowiostka" ACR 2005 ; Martyna Jakubowicz "Tylko Dylan" Sony/BMG 2005 ; Justyna Steczkowska "Femme Fatale" Pomaton EMI 2004 ; Pan Yapa i Magiczna Zaloga Sony Music PL 2002 ; Zbigniew Wodecki "Obok siebie" Sony Music PL 2002 ; Tworzywo Sztuczne "F3" Asfalt Records 2002 ; Superherorockstar "The Very Best Of Greatest Hits" Intonation 2001 ; Fisz 'Tajemnica" Asfalt Records 2000 ; Suita Europejska Germinations 1998 ; Ars Harmoniae "Se encuentra Tango y Jazz" Smix Records 1997 ; Polizei Musik Graz "Music 2000" Koch International 1995 ; Robert Janowski "Mury Jerycha" 1993
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None