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Jozef Skrzek & Tomasz Szukalski

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The right spelling is Józef Skrzek & Tomasz Szukalski.

Józef Skrzek (born July 1948 in Siemianowice, Poland) absolved a classical piano education and has a rock background - he is the founder of the polish cult rockband SBB but also plays fusion and illustrative music. Tomasz Szukalski (born December 1947 in Warsaw, Poland) is a famous jazz musician. He was playing with Arild Andersen, Albert Mangelsdorff, Palle Danielsson, Rashied Ali, Terje Rypdal, Palle Mikkelborg, Tomasz Stańko, Edward Vesala, Dave Holland, Michał Urbaniak, John Surman, to name just a few, and was recording for the famous ECM label. In the 70's he founded together with Sławomir Kulpowicz, Janusz Stefański and Paweł Jarzębski the famous The Quartet - one of the best european jazz bands and a stricte jazzy pendant to Józef's total music - fusion oriented rockband SBB.

Józef (keyboards) & Tomasz (reeds) perform together in a way similar to Joe Zawinul & Wayne Shorter, but with a lot of slavic melancholy and polish ethnic elements.

Their duo album is called "Ambitus Extended" and was recorded 1978 in Poland.

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