embassy events 2008 

Randy Brecker and Wlodek Pawlik Trio to Play in Bialystok and Tykocin Synagogue

24 June 2008 

Copyright: Jazz San Javier

American jazz trumpet star Randy Brecker will headline a jazz concert in Bialystok July 4 at 19:00, announced Cultural Attaché James Wolfe.  Brecker will perform with Poland’s Wlodek Pawlik Trio (Włodek Pawlik - piano, Paweł Pańta - bass, Cezary Konrad - percussion) and Bialystok’s Orkiestra Filharmonii Podlaskiej for Wlodek Pawlik’s jazz suite “Tykocin” (Marcin Nalecz will conduct). Brecker and the Wlodek Pawlik Trio will also perform July 6 at 19:00 in Tykocin in the old synagogue.  

Randy Brecker has been shaping the sound of Jazz, R&B and Rock for more than three decades. His trumpet and flugelhorn performances have graced hundreds of albums by a wide range of artists from James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen, Chaka Khan, George Benson and Parliament-Funkadelics to Frank Sinatra, Steely Dan, David Sanborn, Horace Silver, Jaco Pastorius and Frank Zappa. Born (1945) in Philadelphia to a piano-playing father, Randy spent summers in stage-band camps where he got his earliest experience in ensemble playing. Randy attended Indiana University where after winning the 1965 Notre Dame Jazz festival, the IU Jazz Band was awarded a 3 month State Dept. tour of the Middle East and Asia. Randy Brecker continues to influence and inspire young musicians, performing at Colleges and Universities the world over.