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Michal Urbaniak

An innovative and influential jazz musician, Michał Urbaniak was born on January 22, 1943 in Warsaw, Poland, and grew up in Łódź. He began studying classical violin at the age of six at a local music school, then from 1961 at the Warsaw Conservatory in the class of Tadeusz Wroński. At the same time, he taught himself the saxophone and began playing in clubs at an early age. In 1961, he joined Zbigniew Namysłowski's Jazz Rockers group, before joining Andrzej Trzaskowski's quintet The Wreckers, which also performed in the USA. Back in Poland, he joined Krzysztof Komeda's quintet (1...