O.N.E.
O.N.E. is Poland's first all-female instrumental jazz band. An acoustic quartet - they mix lyricism and songfulness with wild and uncompromising free-jazz energy.
Kamila Drabek, Monia Muc, Patrycja Wybrańczyk i Kateryna Ziabliuk are outstanding representatives of the young generation of the improvised music scene. They create in the spirit of democracy – jointly composing pieces and arranging improvised space.
An excellent album – mature, uncompromising, debunking myths, breaking conventions. And in a sense a breakthrough – I believe that this proposal will shake up our jazz backyard
– Bogdan Chmura, Jazz Forum
Performing for the last few years as O.N.E. Quintet, now as a quartet, the band was chosen by JAZZ FORUM critics, the band of the year in the HOPE OF JAZZ category and in 2021 the band got nominated for FRYDERYKI 2021 award in Debut in Jazz category and awarded with JAZZ OSCAR Grand Prix Jazz Melomani 2020 in New Hope category.
In November 2019, the band’s debut album, entitled ONE, was recorded at Cavatina Non-profit Studio and released on the Audio Cave label. The album premiered on 1 May 2020, and less than a year later the debut album was also released on vinyl.
The second album by O.N.E., ENTOLOMA, was also released by Audio Cave, on 8 March 2022.
Entoloma (…) constitutes a very successful entity. It is a clear step forward for the band, and in a very good and interesting direction for the listeners.
– Rafał Zbrzeski, Jazz Forum
The band has performed at great festivals such as the Polish Jazz at Tel Aviv, the Athens Jazz Festival, the Polish Jazz Festival in Budapest, B-Jazz in Belgium, as well as many important festivals in Poland.
As a band, O.N.E. are proud to represent the young jazz scene as women and to pave the way for the next generation of young female artists.
(…) ‘Entoloma’ no longer leaves any illusions. It is a thoughtful and fully conscious marriage of spontaneity and a deep ‘bite’ into and understanding of the structures being created. This album is simply very impressive.
– Jędrzej Janicki, Jazzpress
Band members:
Kamila Drabek – double bass player and composer, graduate of the Academy of Music in Krakow. She leads the original band Tercet Kamili Drabek. The band won the 2019 jazz phonographic debut competition and released the album “Naiwna Music” (nomination for the Fryderyk 2020 award for the best debut). She collaborated with the top American saxophonist Greg Osby, the Cuban band Vistel Brothers or Maciej Obara. She is a laureate of the Blue Note Poznań Jazz Competition, Azoty Tarnów Jazz Contest and Krokus Jazz Festival. As part of the “Partnership for Music 2.0.” she realized the project “Tercet plays the works of Jerzy Duduś Matuszkiewicz”. In 2020, together with writer Anna Malinowska and painter Pola Dwurnik, they created an interdisciplinary trio for word, image and double bass in the project “Unhappy Ending”.
Monika Muc – saxophone, graduate of the Academy of Music in Kraków, Poland in the class of Prof. Dr. with a postdoctoral degree Ryszard Krawczuk, a former student of the Jazz and Stage Music Institute in Nysa in the class of Prof. Piotr Baron. Collaborated with Małopolski Big Band. She is the „Powiew Młodego Jazzu” award winner in Krokus Jazz Festival in 2017, the second prize winner in the competition Novum Jazz Festival 2018 and award winner in Blue Note Competition in Poznań in 2019. Concreates the O.N.E Quintet and Król bands.
Patrycja Wybrańczyk – drums – a mushroom-picking lover and a huge fan of hiking and living next to nature. Gifted graduate of the Jazz Department in ZPSM in Krzysztof Gradziuk’s class in Warsaw, she studied at the Krzysztof Penderecki Music Academy in Kraków, and now she is studying at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo. Apart from O.N.E., she co-creates Jakub Żołubak Trio, Ninja Episkopat and the Polish-Norwegian quartet PESH. She performs on many Polish and European scenes (ex. Athens Jazz Festival / Greece, Vinnytsia Jazzfest / Ukraine, Opus Jazz Club / Budapest, B-Jazz Festival / Belgium, Victoria Nasjonal Jazzscene / Oslo, NOSPR / Poland) on jazz and avantgarde scene. Her inspirations mostly come from avant-garde, improvised and classical music, polish folk and Scandinavian jazz.
Kateryna Ziabliuk – piano – pianist, singer, composer, and journalist. Based in Poland, originally from Kyiv and has studied in Katowice, Krakow, and Milan. She is one of the most promising figures on the European music scene. In her work, she is interested in mixing composition with free improvisation mainly by using elements of traditional music and exploring the cultural/historical heritage of her homeland. She delves into electroacoustic music as well, collaborating with performers and filmmakers.