Zbigniew Seifert

Polish jazz violinist

Zbigniew Seifert
Born	(1946-06-07)7 June 1946
Origin	Kraków, Poland
Died	15 February 1979(1979-02-15) (aged 32)
Genres	Jazz
Years active	1970–1979
Labels	MPS, EMI, Capitol, Mood

Musical artist

Zbigniew Seifert (7^[1] June 1946 – 15 February 1979)^[2] was a Polish jazz violinist.

Seifert was born in Kraków, Poland.^[2] He played alto saxophone early in his career and was influenced by John Coltrane.^[2] He devoted himself to jazz violin when he began performing with the Tomasz Stańko Quintet in 1970,^[2] and became one of the leading modern jazz violinists. Seifert relocated to Germany in 1973, and worked with Hans Koller's Free Sound between 1974 and 1975.^[2] The following year, he performed alongside John Lewis at the Montreux Jazz Festival.^[2] Seifert later recorded with Oregon.^[2]

He died of cancer at the age of 32,^[2] and is buried at Rakowicki Cemetery in Krakow.

Discography

As leader

Zbigniew Seifert (Capitol, 1977)
Man of the Light (MPS, 1977)
Solo Violin (EMI Electrola, 1978)
Passion (Capitol, 1979)
Kilimanjaro (PolJazz, 1979)
We'll Remember Zbiggy (Mood, 1979)
We'll Remember Komeda (Polonia, 1998)
Live in Hamburg 1978 (Milo, 2006)
Nora (GAD, 2010)
Live in Solothurn (2017)

As sideman

With Tomasz Stanko

Music for K (Polskie Nagrania, 1970)
Jazzmessage from Poland (B.Free, 1972)
Purple Sun (Calig, 1973)
W Pałacu Prymasowskim (PolJazz, 1983)

With others

Boogie Pimps, The Music in Me (Superstar, 2005)
Hans Koller, Kunstkopfindianer (MPS/BASF, 1974)
Hans Koller, Nome (B.Free, 2017)
Volker Kriegel, Lift! (MPS/BASF, 1973)
Joachim Kühn, Cinemascope (MPS/BASF, 1974)
Joachim Kühn, Springfever (Atlantic, 1976)
Charlie Mariano, Helen 12 Trees (MPS/BASF, 1976)
Glen Moore, Introducing (Elektra, 1979)
Oregon, Violin (Vanguard, 1978)
Jiří Stivín, 5 Ran Do Cepice (Supraphon, 1972)
Jasper van 't Hof, Eye Ball (Keytone, 1974)
Jan "Ptaszyn" Wróblewski, Sprzedawcy Glonow (Polskie Nagrania, 1973)

References

^ "40 lat temu zmarł Zbigniew Seifert". dzieje.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 3 April 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Colin Larkin, ed. (1992). The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music (First ed.). Guinness Publishing. pp. 2222/3. ISBN 0-85112-939-0.