Jan Kopinski's Zone K at Vortex Jazz Club

Zone K is Jan Kopinski's exciting international trio, a smaller version of their larger groups allowing them to stretch out in more individual ways.Jan first met Wojtek Konikiewicz exactly 30 years ago with Pinski Zoo on several extensive tours through a bleak, but musically exciting post-martial law Poland.

Several collaborations, tours, recordings and journeys of research in Poland, playing their defiant, uncompromising music at major festivals, but also in towns and villages barely visited by western groups. Albums include a rare Poljazz album – Live in Warsaw, a UK album- Zone K and Jan’s recent of reflections upon Poland – Mirrors....

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Zone K is Jan Kopinski's exciting international trio, a smaller version of their larger groups allowing them to stretch out in more individual ways.Jan first met Wojtek Konikiewicz exactly 30 years ago with Pinski Zoo on several extensive tours through a bleak, but musically exciting post-martial law Poland.

Several collaborations, tours, recordings and journeys of research in Poland, playing their defiant, uncompromising music at major festivals, but also in towns and villages barely visited by western groups. Albums include a rare Poljazz album – Live in Warsaw, a UK album- Zone K and Jan’s recent of reflections upon Poland – Mirrors.

JAN KOPINSKI’s sax sound originated in the inspiring late Coltrane, Ayler era, with a mixture of Jazz passion, abstract funk and melancholic Polish folk influenced cries. and stunning drummer, Pat Illingworth can conjure jazz excitement in a mix of whiplash grooves and tender composition.

Hugely influential in the formation of defiant Polish jazz co-operatives such as Free Cooperation, Tribute to Miles Orchestra, pianist Wojtek Konikiewicz has that dedicated technique, but open minded approach that has led to collaborations with cross genre music including improv, folk and sacral music within Poland and worldwide including USA, India, Japan Mexico.

"... Kopinski is one of Britain's few authentic voices on saxophone." - Ben Watson, Hi- Fi News & Record Review

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