Chicago Tribune music critics have named Chopin 200: Grazyna Auguscik's World Sound
one of the "don't miss" concerts of summer 2010. An excerpt from the article appears
below.
Howard Reich & John von Rhein, Chicago Tribune critics
June 18, 2010
JAZZ - free shows
Grazyna Auguscik
The Chicago-based Polish singer owns one of the more distinctive voices in jazz,
and she'll put it to unusual use here: celebrating the bicentennial of Frederic
Chopin's birth. Many jazz musicians have proved that Chopin's ineffably poetic music
easily lends itself to jazz improvisation, and it will be intriguing to hear Grazyna
Auguscik's response to her countryman's enormous legacy.
She'll be joined by accordionist Jarek Bester and the Andrzej Jagodzinski Trio,
from Poland, plus Chicagoans Howard Levy on harmonica and piano and Paulinho Garcia
on guitar.
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