# If only Kinga Glyk didn’t have that bell-like jingle behind every announcement … Video, Photos

- Link: https://jazzblues.eu/2024/04/27/if-only-kinga-glyk-didnt-have-that-bell-like-jingle-behind-every-announcement-video-photos/
- Published: 2024-04-27T00:02:13+01:00
- Author: https://JazzBlues.EU

**Kinga Glyk’s band, a quintet with two keyboard players, also features saxophonist
Hailey Niswanger, whose name is worth remembering.**

Visually, the stage presence is dominated by a keyboard battery, and the electronic
sound is not surprising.

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.jazzreportagen.com/wp-content/uploads/Kinga_Glyk_Band_2740_by_Rainer_Ortag-
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After a lyrical introduction, the Polish funk bass diplomat heats up the band and
audience with a fat bass vamp. The composition, urgent and rousing, has a lot of
muscle and offers Hailey Niswanger on the Aerophone the first opportunity to show
off her skills. This can be fun!

In any case, there is no lack of good humor on stage. The band is well-rehearsed
and offers a fresh fusion variant that is audibly inspired by formations like the
Yellowjackets, Spyrogyra or Weather Report. Flashbacks regarding the latter band
quickly arise when Niswanger plays the soprano: Wayne Shorter would have enjoyed
it, the author freely claims.

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.jazzreportagen.com/wp-content/uploads/Kinga_Glyk_Band_2662_by_Rainer_Ortag.
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Her elaborate playing with aerophone and sax delights bandleader and audience alike.
Glyk plays the jazz bass appropriately and confidently: growling sound, hearty slapping,
subtle muting, chordal playing and brilliant solos work well even without testosterone.

Drummer Nicola Viccaro can drum his way through all heavy funk patterns, but also,
as in the title Unseen Bruises, uses felt mallets and brooms sensitively. Arek Grygo
and Michał Jakubczak on the keyboards, the heroes of the envelope curves, contribute
pads, smacky funk patterns and gripping solos, occasionally throwing balls to each
other.

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.jazzreportagen.com/wp-content/uploads/Kinga_Glyk_Band_2783_by_Rainer_Ortag.
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If only Glyk didn’t have that bell-like jingle behind every announcement… but we
don’t want to be picky. A successful evening comes to an end.

Kinga Glyk and her musicians are very young. It will be exciting to see what direction
their further development takes.

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.jazzreportagen.com/wp-content/uploads/Kinga_Glyk_Band_2750_by_Rainer_Ortag.
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