Imagination Quartet will give three concerts in China. In October, the Polish group will perform during OCT-LOFT International Jazz Festival 2014 in Shenzhen – one of the major Chinese jazz festivals, and in clubs in Zhongshan and Guangzhou.

Imagination Quartet will perform on 16^th October in Zhongshan at Sun Live House Club, on 17^th October in Guangzhou at Fei Live House Club and on 18^th October in Shenzhen at 4th OCT-Loft International Jazz Festival. The concerts will promote the group’s debut album (2011. Anaconda Productions) and will act as harbingers of the forthcoming album being released at the end of the year.

OCT-LOFT is one of the largest Chinese jazz festivals. This year’s edition lasts from 8^th to 30^th October and stars Stefan Micus (Germany), Eddie Gomez Quartet (U.S.A.) Samuel Blaser & Pierre Favre (Switzerland) and many more. The performance by Imagination Quartet will be the first Polish group appearance in the history of the Shenzhen festival and one a very few in China so far.

The Imagination Quartet’s China tour would not be possible without the assistance of: Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Plateaux Foundation, Wspieramkulture.pl. Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Beijing has assumed the honorary patronage of the endeavour.

Imagination Quartet is an expressive music project launched in 2009. Though it clearly relies on classic jazz esthetics, it does not let itself be trapped in music standards and common expectations.

Drawing extensively on improvised, experimental music, IQ plays energetic, passionate, direct jazz, which will also surprise the listener with humorous taunts. Just as the name of the band says, it is a music full of imagination, rich, unlimited, sitting where the line between harmony and frantic expression gets blurred. Imagination Quartet has already played over 70 concerts, among others the finals of Jazz po polsku Berlin (2013), Copenhagen Jazz Festival (2012), Dreszer Jazz Festival (2011), Krokus Jazz Festival (2010), Jazz Juniors (2010). In June 2010 they performed during the opening event of World Press Photo.

21st November 2011 Imagination Quartet released their debut album under the label of Anaconda Productions. The album, available on the Polish market and in online distribution at Amazon.com, iTunes, Spotify, summarizes the hitherto activity of the band. It includes 11 original compositions, explicitly basing on jazz esthetics, while retaining its special, unique character.

Lineup: Michał Sołtan (guitar), Damian Pińkowski (sax), Dariusz Świtalski (bass), Maciej Dziedzic (drums).

More about Imagination Quartet:  www.imaginationquartet.com