Więcek was born in Rybnik in 1994 and attended the Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen. He says:
In Copenhagen I met people who did not restrict themselves to one music style or genre. Actually there weren't many orthodox jazzmen. People would come and play a track that interested or inspired them. We would listen to artists such as Kanye West, who rather is not associated with music schools. And this is an important figure; he is a musician that changes almost from one album to another. He is not stuck in one place.
That is what he says about how his trio was founded:
As a student I wrote a lot of music, always for particular artists. I had three rehearsals a day: on one of them I played jazz standards, on the second free-jazz and on the third I played with a band for which I wrote original music. Eventually, there was a possibility to play a concert in Warsaw in 12on14 Jazz Club. I invited Michał Barański to play the double bass and Łukasz Żyta to play the drums. I heard them before at various concerts and I really wanted to have such a band. For me, as a composer, and quite a bossy one, that was a situation of my dreams: in my band there were musicians which were able to play whatever came to my mind. In 12on14 we played the standards and I thought that recording my own album would be a real challenge. So I did that.
On Another Raindrop he does not try to imitate the great saxophonists from the past. As he emphasises, in looking for inspiration he goes beyond jazz and heads for the electronic music, classical music, rock or hip hop. Next to the albums by Coltrane, Lester Young and Ben Webster, he keeps the records by Tom Waits, Flying Lotus or Oasis.
That is how he describes the way he works:
In New York I bought new synthesisers, also the ones that were used by artists such as Bon Iver, Tame Impala and Radiohead. I can get on the tram and have a new beat ready at the second following stop. I play with the synthesiser as I used to play with a Gameboy as a young boy. During the 7-hour flight from New York to Warsaw I did not put it away even for a moment. The flight seemed to have lasted just a few minutes. I use this synthesiser on every concert: when I play with my trio, with the band of Kamil Piotrowicz and solo. On every concert.
Kuba Więcek performed in almost all the European countries, North America and Asia. Recently, he divides his time between two cities: Warsaw and Copenhagen.
Another Raindrop won the 2018 Fryderyk Award in the Jazz Debut Album of the Year category. Listeners were also impressed with Więcek’s work. In 2018, the Jazz Forum magazine readers’ poll listed him as the top third artist in the alto saxophone category.
In the first half of 2019, the young musician’s second studio album entitled Multitasking hit the shelves. It was released by Polskie Nagrania in the Polish Jazz series, just like Więcek’s debut. In the studio, the saxophonist was once again joined by Michał Barański and Łukasz Żyta. The final sound of the album was refined by world-class Japanese sound engineer Seigen Ono, while the cover art was designed by Macio Moretti, who also took part in the recording of the piece Jazz Robots.