Jazz: MELANIE J-B CHARLES BAND – SOUL JAZZ (USA)
Melanie Charles USA (voc, fl), Janusz Skowron PL (p), Dishan Harper USA (b), Miroslaw Sitkowski PL (dr)
Melanie Charles, this Brooklyn-Born, Haitian-American musician is truly a rarity. A master of many genres ranging from soul to jazz to Haitian roots music, Melanie Jean-Baptiste Charles always delivers. Melanie is graduate of the world famous LaGuardia High School For The Performing Arts as a flute major and the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music with a degree in vocal Jazz performance. Melanie has already seen the world and performed as a leader and as a "featured singer" at top venues such as Blue Note NY, Milan and Japan, Duc Des Lombards in Paris, LPR in NY and many more.
Janusz Skowron - an outstanding polish jazz pianist, composer and arranger. He graduated from the Elsner School of Music in Warsaw, in the organ class. In 1980 performed at the Jazz Jamboree Festival with Kazimierz Jonkisz band and a year later became a member of the String Connection group: Almost continuously since 1982, the yearly laureate Jazz Top - readers poll Jazz Forum Magazine. Janusz Skowron also collaborated with Eric Marienthal, Bill Evans, Randy Brecker, Dean Brown, David Gilmore, Kenny Wheeler. Janusz Skowron has performed in most European countries, as well as in Canada, Israel and Indonesia.
Dishan Harper is one of Atlanta’s most accomplished musicians. He began playing the upright bass at the age of 15 performing in various school orchestras and jazz bands. He has performed with several famous Jazz musicians such as George Cables, Russel Gunn and toured Columbia South America alongside Emory University Jazz band. He continues to perform in local nightclubs throughout the city and has been the bassist for the African American Philharmonic Orchestra since 2013.
Miroslaw Sitkowski - the polish drummer. He learned from records of the gratest`s drummers like Elvin Jones, Tonny Williams or Jimmy Cobb whose he get to know on Umbria Jazz Festival in 1984. Miroslaw played on the most important jazz festival in his country and in whole Europe. Miroslaw Sitkowski played with many grat musician`s as David Fredman, Bill Mollenhoff, Arthur Lipner, Danny Goodhave. During his cruise ships contract`s Miroslaw played with artist such as Kenney James, Debrah Gibson, Mark Preston and Natalie Cole.
