Michał Urbaniak

Michał Urbaniak, concert on 2019 at the Guido Mine, Zabrze as part of the LOTOS Jazz Festival at 21. Bielska Zadymka Jazzowa Michał Urbaniak (22 January 1943 – 20 December 2025) was a Polish jazz musician who played violin, lyricon, and saxophone. His music includes elements of folk music, rhythm and blues, hip hop, and symphonic music.

Life and career Urbaniak was born in Warsaw, General Government on 22 January 1943. He started his music education during high school in Łódź, Poland, and continued from 1961 in Warsaw in the violin class of Tadeusz Wroński. Learning to play on the alto saxophone alone, he first played in a Dixieland band, and later with Zbigniew Namysłowski

Urbaniak died on 20 December 2025, at the age of 82.

Discography As leader Urbaniak's Orchestra (1968) Live Recording (1971) New Violin Summit with Don Harris, Jean-Luc Ponty (1972) Super Constellation (and Constellation in Concert) (1973) Paratyphus B (1973) Inactin (1973) Michal Urbaniak - Tomasz Stanko - Attila Zoller - Urszula Dudziak: We'll Remember Komeda (1973) Moving South (1973) Polish Jazz (1973) Atma (1974) Fusion (1974) Super Constellation (1974) Funk Factory (1975) Fusion III (EMI, 1975) Body English (1976) The Beginning (Catalyst, 1976) Tribute to Komeda (BASF, 1976) Urbaniak (Inner City, 1977) Smiles Ahead (1977) Ecstasy (Marlin, 1978) Heritage (MPS, 1978) Urban Express (EastWest, 1979) Daybreak (Pausa, 1980) Music for Violin and Jazz Quartet (1980) Serenade for the City (1980) Folk Songs: Children's Melodies (Antilles, 1981) Jam at Sandy's (Jam, 1981) Daybreak (1981) My One and Only Love (SteepleChase, 1982) The Larry Coryell and Michael Urbaniak Duo (Keynote, 1982) Recital with Władysław Sendecki (1983) A Quiet Day in Spring (Steeplechase, 1983) Facts of Life, Urbaniak/Coryell Band (SWS, 1983) Take Good Care of My Heart (SteepleChase, 1984) Burning Circuits (Sonet, 1984) Michael Urbaniak (Headfirst, 1986) Milky Way (Bellaphon, 1987) Live At The Warsaw Philharmonic (1987) Urbaniax (1998) Recital (1998) Cinemode (1988) Songs for Poland (Ubx, 1988) Folk Songs, Children's Melodies, Jazz Tunes, And Others... (1988) New York Five at the Village Vanguard (1989) Urban Express (1989) Milky Way, Some Other Blues, Mardin (1990) Cinemode (Rykodisc, 1990) Songbird (SteepleChase, 1990) Code Blue (1990) Michal Urbaniak (Headfirst, 1991) Manhattan Man (Milan, 1992) Milky Way (L & R, 1992) Burning Circuits, Urban Express, Manhattan Man (1992) Just Friends - Nevertheless (1992) Michal Urbaniak Quartet At The Village Vanguard (1993) Urbanator (1993) Friday Night at the Village Vanguard (Storyville, 1994) Some Other Blues (SteepleChase, 1994) Code Blue (1996) Urbanator II (1996) Live in Holy City (UBX Records, 1997) Ask Me Now (SteepleChase, 2000) Just a Funky Feeling, Urbanizer (UBX Records, 2001) Michał Urbaniak, Urszula Dudziak, Mika Urbaniak – Życie Pisane Na Orkiestrę (2001) From Poland with Jazz (2002) mSax&Love (2002) Urbsymphony (UBX Recordsx, 2003) Eden (Sony, 2003) Decadence (UBX Records, 2004) Urbanizer (UBX Records, 2004) Urbanator III (2005) Michal Urbaniak's Group (2005) Urbaniak / Lackerschmid Connection – Polish Wind (Minor Music, 2005) I Jazz Love You (UBX Records, 2006) Sax Love (UBX Records, 2006) Polish Wind (Minor Music, 2007) Miles of Blue (2009) Sax Love (2009) SBB & Michal Urbaniak (2015) UrbSymphony (2015) Michal Urbaniak Presents Urbanator Days Beats & Pieces (2015) For Warsaw with Love (2019)

As sideman With Urszula Dudziak 1976 Urszula 1977 Midnight Rain 1979 Future Talk 1983 Sorrow Is Not Forever...But Love Is 2010 Jazz Na Hradé

With others 1965 Solarius, Rolf Kühn 1970, Enigmatic, Czesław Niemen 1971 Swiss Suite, Oliver Nelson 1973 Bosko Petrovic's Nonconvertible All Stars – Swinging East 1974 Journey, Arif Mardin (Atlantic) 1975 Mourner's Rhapsody, Czesław Niemen 1977 Tomorrow's Promises, Don Pullen 1977 The Lion and the Ram, Larry Coryell 1979 The Motive Behind The Smile, Cam Newton 1980 Swish, Michael Brecker 1981 Stratus, Billy Cobham 1984 Islands, Scott Cossu 1986, Rhythm & BLU, John Blake / Didier Lockwood / Michael Urbaniak 1986 Tutu, Miles Davis 1987 Music from Siesta, Miles Davis/Marcus Miller 1987 The Camera Never Lies, Michael Franks 1989 Whispers and Promises, Earl Klugh 1994 Rejoicing, Paul Bley 1994 Mo' Jamaica Funk, Tom Browne 1995 Present Tense, Lenny White 1996 Swish, Harris Simon Group 2002 Glass Menagerie, Billy Cobham 2003 Nevertheless, Bob Malach 2004 Music for Planets, People, and Washing Machines, Randy Bernsen 2016 Kino Mocne, Dariusz Makaruk