Kuba Więcek

Kuba Więcek, born Jakub Więcek, is one of the most important Polish jazz musicians of the younger generation. He was born on 29 October 1994 in Rybnik and developed early toward broadly understood improvised music, although he initially studied cello. He later moved to saxophone, and that instrument became the center of his artistic identity. He studied first for a year in Amsterdam and then at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen, while also graduating from the Academy of Music in Kraków. His major breakthrough came in 2017 with Another Raindrop, recorded in a trio with Michał Barański and Łukasz Żyta. The album was released in the Polish Jazz series, which made it a symbolic event, because Więcek...