Romuald Frey

THANKS JIMI FESTIVAL 2011-Wroclaw, Poland

2011-04-11T13:27:00.011+01:00

April 30, 2011 it´s time to play again!
Let us create "The worlds greatest IT-Rockband"

Wroclaw, Poland

There are many musicians who will join us:
WROCLAW - Poland
ZIELONA GORA - Poland
NYBRO - Sweden
OSLO - Norway
CHICAGO - USA
KÖLN - Germany
...and there will be more!

more information...

Thank`s Jimi Festival, Wroclaw Polen-live

Leslie Kot AUTUMN LEAVES

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Leslie Kot-FRONT PAGE

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Leslie Kot-CEASAR´S LIGHT

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ozzy bicie serc budzi mnie

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Leslie Kot-GOOD THINGS

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Leslie Kot-GRANDSON ROBERT

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Hoppe-GE MIG EN CHANS

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RYSZARD GWALBERT MISIEK

2010-08-28T14:18:00.005+01:00

Odszedl artysta i czlowiek, ktory inspirowal otoczenie do ostatnich chwil swojego zycia.
23.03.1947 - 24.08.2010
R.I.P.

6,346 guitar players in Wroclaw - Poland Decimates Previous World Record for "Largest Guitar Ensemble"

2009-05-02T14:41:00.026+01:00

May 1, 2009 saw 6,346 guitar players join together to play the Jimi Hendrix hit "Hey Joe" and more than tripled the standing record for "Largest Guitar Ensemble" of 2,052 set last year in Concord, California. The event took place in the historic center of Wroclaw, Poland - a city which has taken on the title of "Wroclaw Guitar City" - a title that seems merited. In fact, the Mayor, Rafał Dutkiewicz, was among those playing, as was Deep Purple guitarist Steve Morse and festival founder and director, Leszek Cichoński. Cichoński is a well-known musician and music educator in Poland and the festival was an outgrowth of one of his educational programs and has taken place - and grown - annually since 2003. Beyond the 6,346 guitar players, there were thousands of spectators and supporters in the Wrocław city center as well as other guitar players taking part online and in coordinated events in Sweden,

the US, Canada and Australia (though those do not count towards the record). One of the objectives of the organizers is to establish May 1st as "World Guitar Day" and more coordinated simultaneous events are planed for next year and beyond.

Now it is the German's turn as they make their attempt on May 10th in Mainz.
source: cichonski.art.pl

Further information at:
www.myspace.com/thanksjimifest
Pobilismy rekord Guinnessa...
Lennart "Lelle" Persson Nybro
www.guitarworld.com

THANKS JIMI FESTIVAL 2009 - Wroclaw, Poland

2009-04-05T13:15:00.031+01:00

Deep Purple’s Steve Morse joins Poland’s “Thanks Jimi Festival” to help set New World Record for Most Guitar Players Playing Together.

Founded in 2003 by Polish guitarist Leszek Cichonski in tribute to Jimi Hendrix, and an annual event since, the "Thanks Jimi Festival" takes place in the Rynek (Old Town Square) of the beautiful medieval city of Wroclaw, Poland.

2009 marks the 7th annual “Thanks Jimi Festival”, a worldwide movment to establish May 1st as “World Guitar Day”. Each year the festival attracts guitar players from around the world who gather to celebrate the legacy and inspiration of Jimi Hendrix. It is a free, open-air event featuring top Polish music stars and notable international guests. The climax of the event is an attempt to set Guinness World Record for “Largest Guitar Ensemble”. 2008 saw 1,951 guitar players (electric, acoustic and bass) playing ”Hey Joe” and while “Hey Joe” will be on the song list again this year, with the participation of Steve Morse, the iconic guitar tune “Smoke on the Water” is being added to the repertoire.

Let us create "The worlds greatest IT-Rockband"

more:
Leszek Cichonski
Myspace, Thanks Jimi Festival
Video of the 2008 event
Participating group in the US
Thanks Jimi Festival in Sweden, Nybro
Leszek Cichonski-Guitar Emotions
http://www.modernguitars.com/archives/004790.html

GREEN ECHO FROM LONDON

2008-10-08T19:34:00.019+01:00

Leslie Kot lives in Orebro, Sweden. He is a passionate, dedicated musician and writer. He is also my friend.

On this, his new album, he has put together a superbly tight group of musicians to play music that demonstrates their combined experience of the Blues, Jazz, Rock and Funk. The lyrics are written by Leslie in English, and express - in an often surreal way - observations on life as he sees and feels it.

These are not songs that you will find yourself singing, they are Leslie's and his alone, the voice wheezing and snarling, croaking and caressing the words - sometimes spoken, sometimes sung.

This guy and his band are unique and "Green Colour" gets better with each playing.

Listen and make up your own minds. Enjoy!

Lew Lewis

London, England

GREEN COLOUR - NEW CD ALBUM 2008

2007-12-14T18:29:00.002+01:00

Leslie Kot
Romuald Frey - Jacek Krzaklewski - Mietek Jurecki

KFKoo7, BIEM,n©b, STIM, All Rights Reserved
© Copyright 2008 MAF Records/Leslie Kot/Romuald Frey/Jacek Krzaklewski

1. Expectations
2. Green Colour
3. 67 Years In Showbiz
4. Space Warning
5. Ceasar`s Light
6. Front Page
7. Blue Heaven
8. Jailer
9. Grandson Robert
10. Ride A Horse
11. Life Of Luxury
12. Good Things

Music composed, arranged and produced by
Leslie Kot, Romuald Frey and Jacek Krzaklewski
Lyrics by Leslie Kot

Musicians:
Leslie Kot - vocal, harmonica, flute, guitars (3, 10)
Romuald Frey - ac.& el. guitars, keybords, lead guitar (12)
Jacek Krzaklewski - lead guitar, dobro, ac. & el. guitars, mandolin, keybords, add. vocal
Mietek Jurecki - bass guitar

Featuring:
Clas Olofsson - lead guitar (2,3)
Janusz Konefal - lead guitar (5)
Lennart "Lelle" Persson - slide ac. guitar (8)
Jerzy "Wilk" Kaczmarek - piano, strings, organ (11)
Juliusz Mazur - piano, organ (6)
Gregory Ostrowski - trumpet, trombone (11)
John Crawford - drums, percussions
Linda Karlstedt - add. vocal (4)
Pincushion, Bub`N Gwaye, The Future - add. vocal (10)

Recorded at:
BLUESAW studio - Wroclaw, Poland; ROMEK studio - Lund, Sweden,
JM studio - Lublin, Poland and MAF studio - Örebro, Sweden

Mixed and mastered by Jacek Krzaklewski
Design by Stracy & Peter Källman
Photos by Per Knutsson/NA, Willy Schläfer, Agnieszka Galczynska, Keiko Majima
Zielona Galazka, Tomasz Krzaklewski, Per Lindström

KFK 007 MAF RECORDS - SWEDEN

THANKS JIMI FESTIVAL 2008-Wroclaw, Poland

2007-12-12T21:22:00.000+01:00

more...

New CD coming soon

2007-10-13T11:04:00.000+01:00

New CD album "GREEN COLOUR" contains 12 brand new tracks with music by Kot-Frey-Krzaklewski and Leslie Kot`s lyrics (Mietek Jurecki on bass guitar) is almost ready and coming out soon. We`ll keep U posted

On the picture: Jacek Krzaklewski, Leslie Kot, Romuald Frey, Mietek Jurecki
(Wroclaw, 1st of May 2007).

VINTAGE-new CD

2007-09-08T16:44:00.000+01:00

VINTAGE: Krzysztof Walecki, Mietek Jurecki
(bassman on "GREEN COLOUR") and Pawel Szafraniec

LESLIE KOT - SHARP DRESSED MAN

2007-08-09T13:29:00.000+01:00

Nerikes Allehanda has elected Leslie Kot the Best Dressed Man in Örebro County, Sweden. Leslie, congratulations!
more...

Photo: Agnieszka Galczynska

SUMMER GIGS ON ÖLAND

2007-08-05T17:29:00.000+01:00

A couple of days in July 2007, Lennart "Lelle" Persson & I played at "Blue Valvet" in Köpingsvik on Öland.
We had a really good time there, met a lot of great people & became good friends with many of them.
On July the 11th august we are playing there again. This time with one more guitarist & singer-Timmy Kallunki.

Romuald & Lelle att "Blue Valvet" Photo: Cina Persson

Romuald & Lelle on Öland
Photo: Cina Persson

Lukas & Timmy att "Blue Valvet"
Photo: Romuald Frey

NEW CD

2007-05-06T15:00:00.000+01:00

Currently I´m working on a CD album with Leslie Kot (Örebro, Sweden) and Jacek Krzaklewski Wroclaw, Poland). The album contains 12 new songs with music by KOT-FREY-KRZAKLEWSKI and Leslie`s lyrics. Featuring:
Clas Olofson (USER)-guitar, Lennart Persson-slide Dobro, Juliusz Mazur & Jerzy Kaczmarek-piano, Hammond, Mietek Jurecki-bass...and friends.

On the picture: Romuald Frey, Leslie Kot & Jacek Krzaklewski

1,881 GUITARISTS-NEW WORLD RECORD 2007

2007-04-01T08:43:00.000+01:00

I was there!
It was an incredible experience for me standing on stage and playing "Hey Joe” with my old friends at the Thanks Jimi Festival in my hometown Wroclaw in

Poland

on May 1st, 2007.
Together with 1,881 guitarists, who gathered on the Old Town Square, we broke Wroclaw’s own Guinness World Record as the greatest rock orchestra in the world.
Guitarists from Lund in

Sweden

joined this event through Internet as well. About 26 musicians played “Hey Joe” in the Tuna School’s assembly hall. Although there were some Internet problems they made it! I would like to thank all of you for the fantastic work you did. Participants, parents and especially the following team, who made this project possible:
Axel Lagerquist (student)
Viktor Fabri (student)
Thomas Lindvall (teacher)
Henrik Foung (teacher)
Thomas Tomaszek (Tuna School’s IT-Guru)

Nybro joined the event too. Lennart “Lelle” Persson with his guitar-students from Kulturskolan did a great job! Check out Lelle Persson's website with Nybro guitar-record videolink.
Thanks Leszek Cichonski for this exciting international music meeting in Wroclaw Guitar CITY

WROCLAW GUITAR CITY

2007-03-30T17:03:00.000+01:00

May 1st 2007, guitarists from Tuna School in Lund, Sweden, will take part in “Thanks Jimi Festival 2007” through Internet. This biggest guitar event in the world is located in Wroclaw, Poland. The past year 1581 guitarists played Jimi Hendrix "Hey Joe" and broke the old Guinness world record as the greatest rock orchestra in the world. At this very moment there are about 60 young musicians who join in this happening, but more to come every day. More...
Check also out Surrealism’s website: SURREALISM

WROCLAW GUITAR CITY

Tuna School in Lund, second rehearsal before World Guitar Day

Photo: Michael Tomaszek

Tuna School in Lund, first rehearsal before World Guitar Day

Photo: Michael Tomaszek

THANKS JIMI FESTIVAL 2007

2007-03-25T22:20:00.000+01:00

I´M GOING TO "THANKS JIMI FESTIVAL 2007"
1st OF MAY-WORLD GUITAR DAY
WROCLAW GUITAR CITY
1581 guitars played Jimi Hendrix's blues-rock hit "Hey Joe" at the Old Town Square in Wroclaw,

Poland

, on the 1st of may 2006! That´s a new Guinness World Record.
1st of May 2007 it`s time again. I´m one of the guests on stage. Together with Leszek Cichonski & Friends including Leslie Kot I´m gonna play "Red House Blues", "Knockin´On Heavens Door" + some more.

Leszek Cichonski in Wroclaw, Poland
More:
CLAS YNGSTRÖM-SKY HIGH
LESZEK CICHONSKI (in english)
LESZEK CICHONSKI (in polish)
LESLIE KOT
SURREALISM
LENNART PERSSON

http://free4web.pl/NewsList/119050
http://blues.net.pl/news/196

GUITAR PLAYER TV has interviewd Leszek Cichonski
about 1st MAJ-WORLD GUITAR DAY

Interview
Click on the Thanks Jimi Festival 2007 to the left of the screen.

"The Pat" on All Ears

2007-01-07T15:38:00.000+01:00

In January 2007 I published my composition "The Pat" on a Swedish music site AllEars.
This is an instrumental piece of music that was recorded in my home recording studio.

Musicians:
Janne Jansson - drums
Hjalmar Sventelius - keyboard
Romuald Frey - guitars, bass, producer

Janne Jansson

Romuald Frey

Hjalmar Sventelius

Gitarrens Helgdag

2007-01-05T14:50:00.000+01:00

In May, 2005 together with Leslie Kot I arranged, produced and recorded a special version of Bob Dylans "Knockin´On Heavens Door" that was performed by 590 guitarists on GITARRENS HELGDAG-Guinness World Record Attempt, the biggest guitar show ever in Örebro, Sweden.
The track was made by Pappa Leslie Rockin´House Band:
Charlotte Ollward, Åsa Jonsson, Roland "Rolle" Rosenqvist,
Robban Eriksson-background vocals
Romuald Frey: guitar, bass, drums programming (guitar solo nr 1)
Leszek Cichonski: guitar (guitar solo nr 2)
Janusz Konefal: guitar (guitar solo nr 3)
Jacek Krzaklewski: guitar, Hammond (guitar solo nr 4)
Leslie Kot: vocal, guitar, harmonica

Projects in Poland

2007-01-05T14:09:00.000+01:00

(1972) Romuald Frey
Festiwal Piosenki Studenckiej in Opole
with Wojciech Popkiewicz Group-TV broadcast

Between 1968 and 1985 I played concerts,
made records and shows in Polish Radio and TV with bands such as:
-eRBe (with this rhythm & blues band I made my first TV-show in Katowice).
-Nurt
-Wojciech Popkiewicz Group
-Freedom
-Ryszard Gwalbert Misiek Group
-Transport Band
-Ozzy
-Jazz Guitar Workshop (the first electric guitar duo in Poland formed together with Stanislaw Zybowski).
-Wroclaw Band
Orkiestra Polskiego Radia & Telewizji with Studio 202 and singers Ewa Bem, Andrzej Zaucha).

(1983) Romuald Frey & Stanislaw Zybowski,
Jazz Club Rura, Wroclaw

(1977) Ryszard Gwalbert Misiek Group
Romuald Frey, Juliusz Mazur, Miroslaw Pucek,
Ryszard G.Misiek, Mieczyslaw Jurecki,
Czeslaw Dworzanski, Jerzy Tanski

(1981) Transport Band
Roman "Pazur" Wojciechowski
Romuald Frey
Jerzy "Wilk" Kaczmarek
Wlodzimierz "Lola" Krakus
Jacek Ratajczyk

(1983) OZZY
Jacek Ratajczyk
Wlodzimierz "Lolla" Krakus
Leslie Kot
Romuald Frey
Leszek Cichonski
(Video recording, TV-Warsaw)

I played guitar on Ewa Bems record "Ewa Bem Loves The Beatles", recorded in 1984 at Polskie Nagrania in Warsaw (new edition in 2006, more on: http://ewabem.pl/muzyka.htm).

I played at International Jazz Festival Jazz nad Odra, Festiwal Piosenki Polskiej in Opole, Fama in Swinousjcie, Poznanska Wiosna Estradowa and Zaduszki Jazzowe in Krakow and was also member of the band of Festiwal Piosenki Aktorskiej in Wroclaw.

I worked as a sideman in music productions for Teatr Polski, Wytwornia Filmow Fabularnych and Polish Radio & TV in Wroclaw (there I also recorded compositions of my own) and taught youngsters to play the guitar at Jazz Workshops organized by Polish Jazz Society and Polish Radio & TV Wroclaw.

Projects in Sweden

2007-01-04T14:28:00.000+01:00

Since 1985 I live in Lund, Sweden.
During many years I´ve toured in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Germany with several musicians & bands such as Håkan Nyqvist-Romuald Frey Duo (jazz), Janne Jansson Band (fusion), Keepers (dance music), Hoppe & The Gallery (bluesrock) and HOPPE (rock, pop).

1997 Leslie Kot and I recorded CD album "In Solitude Of Yesterday".
Featuring: Jacek Krzaklewski, Ryszard G. Misiek

1998-1999 (with Lennart Persson) I worked as guitar teacher
at the School Of Rock in Orrefors, Sweden (cooperation with
Studiefrämjandet in Kalmar).

Lennart Persson

2oo4 I arranged, produced and recorded Jörgen Hoppe Andersons CD
"SUZANNA.COM"

2006 Leslie Kot & I recorded a CD singel "Woma´N´Blues"

OIL PAINTINGS BY TERESA-GRAZYNA FREY

2007-01-03T20:51:00.000+01:00

About me

2007-01-03T14:05:00.000+01:00

My name is Romuald Frey-guitarist, composer & teacher.
I came to Sweden 1985 from Wroclaw, Poland.

In 1976 I graduated from Institute of Mechanical and Power Engineering at The Wroclaw Technical University.

In 2003 I graduated from the Malmö University and teach today music, science & mathematics at Tuna School in Lund.

Occasionally, I play at clubs, pubs and music festivals both with others musicians and on my own.

On the picture: Romuald Frey in Örebro, Sweden 2005