Current Projects:
Oles Duo
Oles|Jorgensmann|Oles
Theo Jorgensmann Second
Played with:
Bartlomiej Brat Oles, David Murray, Theo Jorgensmann, Ken Vandermark, Erik Friedlander, Simon Nabatov, Chris Speed, Kenny Werner, Herb Robertson, Frank Gratkowski, Jean-Luc Cappozzo, Christopher Dell, Anthony Coleman, Rudi Mahall, Albrecht Maurer, William Parker, Hamid Drake, Rob Brown, Michael Rabinowitz, Emmanuelle Somer, David Rempis, Tim Daisy, Kent Kessler, Mark Taylor, Mircea Tiberian, Jeb Bishop, Andrzej Przybielski, Mikolaj Trzaska, Adam Pieronczyk, Mark O'Leary, Michael Mussilami, Thomas Kaufmann, Stanley Jordan, Grencsó István ...
Influences
Johann Sebastian Bach, Vincent Van Gogh, Ornette Coleman, Glenn Gould, Spirit of Eden Talk Talk, Morton Feldman, John Coltrane, Bohumil Hrabal, Woody Allen, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Pablo Picasso, Tous les matins du monde, Witold Lutoslawski, Musashi Miyamoto, Krzystof Penderecki, Jean Auray, Scott La Faro, Eddie Gomez, Miroslav Vitous, Branford Marsalis, Robert Hurst, Louis Sclavis, Bruno Chevillon, Joe Dassin, Tadeusz Kantor, William Shakespeare, John Cage, Emil Cioran, Wayne Shorter, Cinema Paradiso, Garry Karr, Columbo, Jimmy Giuffre Trio, Rembrandt, Albert Einstein, Akira Kurosawa ...
'..believe me, this guy is among the best you can hear on the instrument these days, both pizzi and arco.
His touch is both elegant and powerful, his improvisations melodic and creative..'
FreeJazz Blog
'Marcin Oles plays with a captivating sense of confidence and vigor, never bottling up the improvisers nor backing every statement with stated or implied time.'
All About Jazz
'Oles makes powerful statements in either the arco or pizzicato mode. His vigorous execution on the title tune dominates the soundscape'
Cadence Magazine
'..the best what happen in polish jazz'
Audio-Video, Poland
Marcin Oles is a double bass player with his own voice, phrasing and melodic patterns whose work blurs genre borders.. He develops an virtuoso technique
as pizzicato and arco thumb position as well.. He is a composer and an improviser, a jazz musician and contemporary/new music player and a music producer.. He writes music for movies and plays as well and he compose for his projects..
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