PIOTR BARON
Genres: Hard Bop, Post Bop, Third Stream, Classic Fusion, Avant-Garde Jazz • Poland

Piotr Baron, born in Wroclaw, Poland in 1961 made his professional jazz debut as a teenager in 1977. In 1978 he was acknowledged as a soloist at the Jazz nad Odra festival in his home town and received a second prize at that festival in 1980. Four years later in 1984 Piotr won a Grand Prix as a soloist at the San Sebastian festival "Jazz Aldia" in Spain. Mr. Baron has earned a Master of Fine Arts degree at the Karol Lipinski Academy of Music in Wroclaw. Throughout his successful career Piotr Baron has collaborated with all accomplished jazz musicians from Poland and most of the European countries. Some of the names include Zbigniew Namyslowski, Tomasz Stanko, Henryk Majewski, Henryk Miskiewicz, Jaroslaw Smietana, Wojciech Karolak, Zbigniew Lewandowski, Krzesimir Debski, Janusz Muniak, Tomasz Szukalski, Darek "Oles" Oleszkiewicz, Piotr Wojtasik, Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski, Bo Stief, Jasper Van't Hof. In 1998 Piotr was read more...