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Michal Urbaniak (January 22, 1943 – December 20, 2025) was a Polish jazz musician who played violin, lyricon, and saxophone. His music includes elements of folk music, rhythm and blues, hip hop, and symphonic music.

He started his music education during high school in Lódz, Poland, and continued from 1961 in Warsaw in the violin class of Tadeusz Wronski. Learning to play on the alto saxophone alone, he first played in a Dixieland band, and later with Zbigniew Namyslowski and the Jazz Rockers, with whom he performed during the Jazz Jamboree festival in 1961. After this, he was invited to play with Andrzej Trzaskowski, and toured the United States in 1962 with the Andrzej Trzaskowski band, the Wreckers, playing at festivals and clubs in Newport, San Francisco, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and New York City.

After many triumphant concerts in Europe and the United States, in May 1973 he played for the last time before a Polish audience and emigrated with Urszula Dudziak on September 11, 1973, to the United States, where he lived as a U.S. citizen.

Urbaniak followed his musical journey with innovative projects such as Urbanator (the first band to fuse rap & hip-hop in jazz), [citation needed] Urbanizer (a project with his band and four-piece R&B vocal group, 1978) and UrbSymphony. On January 27, 1995, UrbSymphony performed and recorded a concert with a rapper and a 60-piece symphony orchestra.

Urbaniak played with Billy Cobham, Buster Williams, Chick Corea, Harold Ivory Williams, Elvin Jones, Freddie Hubbard, George Benson, Herbie Hancock, Joe Henderson, Joe Zawinul, Kenny Barron, Larry Coryell, Lenny White, Marcus Miller, Quincy Jones, Ron Carter, Roy Haynes, Vladyslav Sendecki, Wayne Shorter, and Weather Report. In 1985, he was invited to play during the recording of Tutu with Miles Davis.

Drifters 1963..A young Phil Spector played the distinctive lead guitar solo on the Drifters' recording. The recording by the Drifters was a hit, reaching No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1963.

Michael (Mick) Timothy Abrahams, Born: April 7, 1943- DIed: December 19, 2025. He was the original guitarist with the band Jethro Tull, and died at age 82.
Mick played on Tull's debut album, This Was, in 1968, but he left after conflicts between him and flute-playing frontman Ian Anderson over the group's musical direction.
Mick wanted to pursue a more blues/rock style, while Anderson pushed to incorporate more folk and jazz influences.
Mick went on to form Blodwyn Pig and the group recorded two albums, Ahead Rings Out (1969) and Getting To This (1970).
He soldiered on with the short-lived Wommett, then the Mick Abrahams Band, and he continued to release albums by himself and with reunited versions of Blodwyn Pig.
Mick worked as a driver, lifeguard and financial consultant, occasionally appearing as a Tull guest and playing gigs for charities in Luton and Dunstable.
He suffered a heart attack in 2009 and the following year he revealed he had Ménière's disease.
Mick's friend, Ray Dorset, of Mungo Jerry, posted on social media today: "Just checking my emails in the car after leaving Düsseldorf Airport and got the very sad news that Mick Abrahams has left the building.
"He was such a lovely guy as well as being a terrific guitarist. It was an honour to support his band Blodwyn Pig prior to Mungo Jerry taking off."
Mick's autobiography, What Is A Wommett, published in 2008 with a foreword by Old Grey Whistle Test presenter "Whispering" Bob Harris, is well worth a read.

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In the seventh century of the Christian era, a wandering Arab of the lineage of Hagar, the Egyptian, combining the powers of transcendent genius, with the preternatural energy of a fanatic, and the fraudulent spirit of an impostor, proclaimed himself as a messenger from Heaven, and spread desolation and delusion over an extensive portion of the earth. Adopting from the sublime conception of the Mosaic law, the doctrine of one omnipotent God; he connected indissolubly with it, the audacious falsehood, that he was himself his prophet and apostle. Adopting from the new Revelation of Jesus, the faith and hope of immortal life, and of future retribution, he humbled it to the dust, by adapting all the rewards and sanctions of his religion to the gratification of the sexual passion. He poisoned the sources of human felicity at the fountain, by degrading the condition of the female sex, and the allowance of polygamy; and he declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind. THE ESSENCE OF HIS DOCTRINE WAS VIOLENCE AND LUST: TO EXALT THE BRUTAL OVER THE SPIRITUAL PART OF HUMAN NATURE.”

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