Graduated from the Academy of Music in Katowice in the department of jazz and pop music. He is a professional piano, keyboard player and music arranger. He has been acting since 1983 in many music groups and formations as the instrumentalist and arranger. He takes part in many studio productions as a sideman. Jakubek is the most recognizable with the Polish formation “Walk Awayâ€, in which he had been playing for 12 years. From the very beginning of his carrier he was pianist of many big bands: “Alex Bandâ€, “Kukla Band†etc. and cooperated with the Warsaw Chamber Orchestra among others. Concerning the Polish scene, there are many famous musicians who used to work with him, such as: Scieranski, Raduli, Napiorkowski, Konrad, Dabrowka, Lewandowski, Pilichowski, Grabowy, Maseli, Dudziak, Urbaniak etc. Zbigniew Jakubek also cooperated with many foreign musicians like Eric Marienthal, Frank Gambale, Didier Lockwood, Cindy Blackman, Carmine Appice, Mino Cinelu, Nippy Noya, Dave Fiuczynski, David Friesen, Susan and Martin Weinerts. He worked with jazz, soul and rock singers and jazz, blues, rock formations. Currently, he is a founder and member of quartet consisted of such instrumentalists as Scieranski, Napiorkowski, Dabrowka and Jakubek as well. He has also been working with the Polish pop star Ryszard Rynkowski and many others polish pop artist. He is also a member of international “Visegrad Blues Bandâ€. The carrier of Zbigniew Jakubek is enriched with vast choice of compositions, arrangements and several dozen records. Since 2004 he is owner of Quartet, most important music project for him. This band is on base friends, very good musicians: Marek Raduli – guitar, Tomasz Grabowy – bass, Artur Lipinski – drums. In the meantime he works as a lecturer of music improvisation at the Music Institute of Rzeszow University in Poland.
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Jarosław Grabarek www.grabarek.icx.pl