Gregory Dudzienski

Description

Saxophonist and composer Gregory Dudzienski lives a life of constant motion. After years of travel, he has become a member of Chicago’s strong community of musicians and improvisers. His original music has been featured on the Anagram Series at The Elastic Arts Foundation, the Actual Jazz Series at Cafe Mustache, and the Chicago Jazz Composers Collective At The Green Mill as well as the Is This Jazz Series at AS200 in Providence, Rhode Island, the International Saxophone Symposium in Fairfax, Virginia, and the Salerno Jazz Festival in Salerno Italy.

Work Sample

A live performance of my original composition "Dexter's Laboratory". Recorded live at The Fulton Street Collective in Chicago in 2021 (run time 7:44).

Dexter's Laboratory is a composition I wrote in tribute to the great saxophonist Dexter Gordon. I feel that it captures precisely my current aesthetic of drawing from primary sources and presenting that material in a modern setting.

History

Saxophonist and composer Gregory Dudzienski lives a life of constant motion. After years of travel, he has become a member of Chicago’s strong community of musicians and improvisers. His original music has been featured on the Anagram Series at The Elastic Arts Foundation, the Actual Jazz Series at Cafe Mustache, and the Chicago Jazz Composers Collective At The Green Mill as well as the Is This Jazz Series at AS200 in Providence, Rhode Island, the International Saxophone Symposium in Fairfax, Virginia, and the Salerno Jazz Festival in Salerno Italy.

Artistic Vision

The jazz of the late 1950s and 1960s has always been my inspiration. I continue to be influenced by the melodic, harmonic and rhythmic language of that era. Seeking new ways to navigate the spirit of the mid-century jazz language, my music results in a modern aesthetic with strong roots in primary sources.