Dominik Bukowski

Jazz vibraphonist, composer, educator.

Latest album

S. E. A. Trio - INFLOW (2024)

S.E.A. (Sonorism, Expression, Ascenticism) a group of musical individuals, performing original compositions. The trio’s music is characterized on the one hand by expression and energy flowing from three equally treated instruments, and on the other by space and asceticism. Everything is embellished with the richness and variety of sounds and colors of the vibraphone, double bass and drums. Each member brings their own musical experience to the music, coming from many years of contact with art, especially the world of sounds of improvised music.

About Dominik Bukowski

Dominik Bukowski has 9 original albums to his name and over 50 as a collaborator and co-composer. For four years running 2020 – 2024 voted as the best vibraphonist by the Jazz Forum magazine’s Jazz Top Survey.

He graduated from Elbląg School of Music in 1996 and went on to study at Gdańsk Academy of Music. In 1998 he transferred to the Jazz Music department at Katowice Academy of Music, vibraphone class, which he graduated in 2002. Since 2021 he is a lecturer at Gdańsk Academy of Music at the department of Jazz and Stage Music.

In 1999 he received both an individual and a band distinction after performing with his band, BLUE MIND QUARTET, at the 2nd National Young Jazz Band Revue in Gdynia. In 2002, the same band took the first place at the prestigious Bielska Zadymka Jazzowa contest in Bielsko-Biała and received the “Jazz Angel 2002” statuette. As part of their prize, the band could record their debut album.

It was nominated for the 2003 GRAND PRIX JAZZ MELOMANI award in the “Nadzieja Melomanów 2003” category and for the STORM OF THE YEAR 2005 by the Tricity edition of Gazeta Wyborcza.

Two of his original albums, “Projektor” and “Sufia”, recorded with the American trumpeter Amir ElSaffar, were among the top ten albums of the year according to Jazz Forum magazine and plenty other jazz album rankings, while a different album of his, “Vice Versa”, was nominated for the Fryderyk music award.

In 2013, the album “Kropla Słowa” by Krystyna Stańko, the majority of which was composed by Bukowski, was named the Album of the Year by the Jazz Forum magazine.

As a sideman, he was awarded a Golden Record for the “Melisa” album by Przemek Dyakowski (produced by Leszek Możdżer).

In 2011, the Marshal of the Pomeranian Voivodeship awarded Bukowski the Pomeranian Art Award.

He performed and recorded with the likes of Amir ElSaffar, Tim Hagans, Cikada Quartet, Nigel Kennedy, Soweto Kinch, Janusz Muniak, Leszek Możdżer, Zbigniew Namysłowski, Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski, Piotr Wojtasik, Krystyna Stańko and many others.

He performed at many Polish jazz festivals and abroad, in Canada, Indonesia, Israel, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Belgium, Czechia, Slovakia, Italy, Greece, Romania, Moldova, Russia and Belarus.

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