KUBA CICHOCKI
Genres: Avant-Garde Jazz, Classic Fusion, 21st Century Modern • Poland

“Imagine the precise moment,” says Polish pianist Kuba Cichocki, “when the energies of heart, mind, and body come together: when all three connect.” The New York-based improviser and composer specializes in merging that which is often kept at odds: the classic and the avant-garde, the technical and the emotional; the rigorously written and the spontaneously performed. One of the exceptional talents to emerge from the Eastern European jazz scene in the late 2000s, Cichocki has persistently matured a personal style over the course of his career, leading him from—in his youth—touring and recording work with European stars Zbigniew Namysłowski, Michael Urbaniak, and Ursula Dudziak to—now, in his adulthood—groundbreaking experiments that throw even New York’s brightest musicians into uncharted territory. In 2010, Cichocki left Warsaw on a scholarship to attend the music school at City College of New York, affording him tutelage under contemporary jazz masters Sam Yahel, Kevin Hays, John read more...