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
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 !
UTOPIA
79 rue de l'ouest 75014 Paris | Tel +33 143 227 966 | Show at 10pm
We offer our 7 Tracks Ep Demo Version, while waiting for our first single "CLOSER"to get mixed.This is what you voted when we asked you to, by the way thanks everybody, especially our worldwide fans !!
Hope you'll like it, don't hesitate to tell your friends about us, and let us a comment to say thanx, even if you like it or not...
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NO SPYWARE, NO VIRUSES, GO ON IT'S TOTALLY FREE !!!!
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Coucou! Alors pas trop fatigué? ^^ Hier j'ai ecouté le concert en direct à la radio et les présentateurs ils faisaient plein de compliments sur toi! On aurait dit qu'ils etaient hypnotisés lol Ils disaient que tu étais vraiment la révélation de cette tournée! Gros Bisouuus Marine
Hi GREG ZLAP! Thank you for adding Blackmail Bluesband to your friends. You have great tracks on your profile. Hope you will have a wonderful week. Greetings from Sweden. Blackmail Bluesband.
Also, we've just done a Hot "BLAME IT" Remix featuring GC ( 2 times GRAMMY NOMINATED, worked with SHAGGY, CHRIS BROWN, ELEPHANT MAN, WYCLEF JEAN, P DIDDY, more info on our page)
C'est un message un peu en retard certes Quand tu es passé au JT j'étais de nuit et je me suis levé et je t'ai vu Franchement ça fait plaisir comme réveil ça met de bonne humeur!!! Bon concert pour le 14 juillet Bisous
Hello Greg, bien content de t'avoir revu hier soir au Grési, certes un peu furtivement mais ça se comprends. Vous avez mis le feu avec Sebastien!! Bonnes routes @ toi et @ bientôt j'espère Take care Al'1
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