Gabor Winand
Gábor Winand started his musical studies on the clarinet, and then after finishing primary school turned to singing. Since 2001 Gábor Winand has been a member of the Elemér Balázs Group, with whom he has recorded four discs. With the orchestra he has played with Charlie Mariano, as well as playing at the London Jazz Festival, the Skopje Jazz Festival, and in a number of European cities, such as Berlin, The Hague, Vienna, etc. Also in 2001 he took part in the Hungarian Radio singing competition as a member of the jury, and Al Jarreau, the chairman of the jury, expressed great delight in Winand’s performance in the gala concert following the competition, then invited him to share the stage in his own concert. His current formations include the band of the Cuban singer Elsa Valle, and his own team, the Winand Quartet. In recent years he has again played with Gábor Gadó, with whom he has recorded albums released under his own name. The French magazine Jazzman awarded his album Corners of my mind the “Choc de l’année” prize in 2002, awarded to the most outstanding albums of the year. With the material from his own albums, he has recently received many invitations to France (Jazz Festival de Souillac, Jazz Festival de Tours, Mittel Europa Jazz Festival Schiltingheim, Paris, Valenciennes).www.winandgabor.com
David Linx
Born on march 22, 1965 in Brussels. Singer, composer, song-writer, producer multi-instrumentalist and a musician of many awards. In 2005 Linx was awarded the title of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres (Knight of the Arts and Letters) by the French Ministry of Culture. His album One Heart, Three Voices brought him a Grand Prize awarded by the Charles Cros Academy for the best jazz record. He recorded more than 15 abum and the list of jazz celebrities renounced internationally is truly impressive. Just to mention : Johnny Griffin, Clark Terry, Slide Hampton, Natalie Dessay, The Count Basie Orchestra, Frank Foster, Toots Thielemans, Mino Cinelu, Marc Ducret, Philippe Catherine, Me?shell Ndégéocello, Billy Cobham, Palle Danielsson, Jon Christensen, Didier Lockwood, Richard Galliano, Kenny Wheeler, Claude Nougaro, Mark Murphy, Sheila Jordan, Marc Ribot, Steve Coleman, Andy Sheppard, David Gilmore, Greg Cohen, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Maria Joao and many others...www.myspace.com/davidlinx
Filip Łobodziński
52 years old, typical example of indecision. Instead of concentrating on one particular field, he has sought his entire life. In part musician, in part philologist, in part journalist. His connected to music half-professionally as a member of a band – Zespół Reprezentacyjny, which was set up during studies time in 1982, and professionally as a journalist. He wrote about music for such magazines as: „Non Stop”, „Rock’n’Roll”, „Machina”, Max”, Życie Warszawy”, „Przekrój” and finally „Newsweek”. Apart from music he also writes about literature, cinema and social issues. He translates books from Spanish and English, and songs from French, Portuguese, Catalan and of course English and Spanish. Being 52 years old he's still interested in new sounds. Moreover he works as a volunteer for the benefit of homeless animals. In childhood he took part in movies, currently he tries himself as a scriptwriter.