Rey & Syl Dorrey _ Lin Lyles - Sylwester Ostrowski

Street jazz. That’s what the saxophonist & producer Sylwester Ostrowski brings to the stage. With an international formation composed of Polish, North American & Latin American talent, the sound of the band is deeply rooted in the American tradition, but flirts with contemporary influence whenever it has occasion to do so.

This ensemble, called Rey & Syl because of a notion by Ostrowski himself to include the powerful vocalist Dorrey Lin Lyles, is designed to shake and move the spectator, mixing R&B, soul & jazz, plus the grooves that identify the rest of the band.

From the Polish city of Szczecin, Sylwester Ostrowski establishes cultural connections on a global scale with jazz. It’s a rare case in the jazz world, because it successfully combines the role of musician – saxophonist- with cultural production, including the creation of the Szczecin Jazz Festival. He has recorded with the American jazz trumpeter Freddie Hendrix and has toured with musicians of the calbre of Bobby Watson, Wynton Marsalis & Keyon Harrold. The hospitality that Sylwester gives to artists, partners & guests when they visit Szczecin is legendary, and more recently he has collaborated with Deborah Brown, Darius Brubeck, Miki Hayama, Newman T. Baker, Wayne Dockery, Essiet Okon Essiet, Anders Bergcrantz, Eric Allen, Dorota Miskiewicz and the Kansas City Jazz Orchestra.

On the international scene, Aylwester has performed at a number of international music festivals in the world of jazz, as well as jazz clubs of world renown, such as the Jazz Sister Cities Inaugural Concert in Kansas City, MO (USA); the Szczecin Jazz in Szczecin (Poland); Jazz on the Dnieper in Dnipro (Ukraine); the Yamaha Ginza Hall in Tokyo (Japan); the Safaricom International Jazz Festival in Nairobi (Kenya) and the Blue Note of New York (USA).

• Line-Up:
• Dorrey Lin Lyles: vocals
• Sylwester Ostrowski: tenor sax
• Jakub “Mizer” Mizeracki: guitar
• Michał Szkil: piano
• Adam Tadel: bass
• Owen Hart Jr: drums