Patrick Egan (@pegan.bsky.social)

Michał Urbaniak, a Polish violinist and jazz fusion pioneer who in the 1970s became one of the first jazz musicians from his Eastern bloc country to gain an international following, eventually playing with luminaries like Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock, died on Saturday. He was 82.

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Michal Urbaniak, Pioneering Jazz Fusion Violinist, Dies at 82 One of the first jazz musicians from Poland to gain an international following, he recorded more than 60 albums and played with stars like Miles Davis. https://nyti.ms/49bndIi