Nicholas Krolak And Voice = Power at Chris' Jazz Cafe

Bassist and composer Nicholas Krolak is a young veteran of the Philadelphia jazz scene. He has spent the last decade working as a side-man, experiencing new styles, and studying with the masters. Now, he has taken all he has learned and is applying it to his own artistic adventures. Tracing the lineage of bebop into the contemporary, he has been described as…

“a different kind of songwriter—perhaps a different kind of jazz musician altogether. He’s like the bass-playing, modern embodiment of Walt Whitman. And, just as Whitman used his prose poems, Krolak uses his music to celebrate and also reconcile the competing and contradictory nature of the two worlds he straddles: the natural and the urban." Matt Silver WRTI...

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Bassist and composer Nicholas Krolak is a young veteran of the Philadelphia jazz scene. He has spent the last decade working as a side-man, experiencing new styles, and studying with the masters. Now, he has taken all he has learned and is applying it to his own artistic adventures. Tracing the lineage of bebop into the contemporary, he has been described as…

“a different kind of songwriter—perhaps a different kind of jazz musician altogether. He’s like the bass-playing, modern embodiment of Walt Whitman. And, just as Whitman used his prose poems, Krolak uses his music to celebrate and also reconcile the competing and contradictory nature of the two worlds he straddles: the natural and the urban." Matt Silver WRTI

Krolak sees one’s artistic voice as having the potential to carry power – to uplift, to inspire, and to create thoughtful and meaningful change. Following feelings of powerlessness in the sociopolitical environment, he deemed that for him to pursue music merely for art’s sake was not enough. His mantra, “Voice = Power” has been at the forefront of his endeavors ever since.

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