“First, it is a great thing to have Dillinger reborn again being read this time you hear his voice in poem Dillinger and Todd Moore is reading his poem of American hero. His voice (Moore’s) and poem enhances J. A. Deane’s music and the music fits like a knife in the rare cooked steak of Dillinger served up by Moore.” — Michael Basinski, The Hold, March 2002 Continue reading
I am a Polish singer and I love music. I have been singing for some time, at the age of 18 I recorded my debut cd which you can listen to here, with the top Polish musicians such as Joachim Mencel, Andrzej Cudzich, Lukasz Zyta, Piotr Wojtasik, Leszek Szczerba, Ryszard Styła. With this band I had a lovely time performing at different places, among which the most important Era Jazzu Festival in Poznan 2000 as a support to Archie Shepp. Then I spent 3,5 years at the University of Music and Dramatic Arts in Graz, Austria, where I studied under Jay Clayton, Mark Murphy, Stjepko Gut, Fritz Pauer, Renato Chicco, Laurie Antonioli and others. Since then a few years have passed and I’m again in Krakow, still singing, hoping to do more in music. Continue reading
Piotr Lemańczyk – leader, bass guitars, voices | Dariusz Herbasz – tenor saxophone | Sławomir Jaskułke – keyboards | Tomasz Łosowski – drums | Maciej Sikała – tenor and soprano saxophones (8, 2/solo) | Mieczysław Szcześniak – vocal (2) | Leszek Dranicki – guitar (7) | Cezary Paciorek – accordion (1, 3) Continue reading
The artist who recorded this album is a pianist who uses tasteful aesthetics created by Hancock and Jarret. Intelectual conception of improvisations, eagerly avoiding tonality, is likeable especially to those acquainted with modern mainstream. Kułakowski is not looking for easy fame. He avoids formal simplifications. He is searching, experimenting. — Piotr Iwicki and Olaf Szefczyk, Gazeta Wyborcza Continue reading
Adam Pierończyk – tenor & soprano sax | Marcin Oleś – acoustic bass | Bartłomiej Brat Oleś – drums. Produced by Bartłomiej Brat Oleś and Marcin Oleś. Executive producer: Marek Winiarski. Recorded March 1-2, 2001 at Studio Radio TAK, Kielce. Engineer: Jacek Hajnrych. Cover photo: Mateusz Gross. Liner photos: M&M Gross. Design:Mariusz Kulan.
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At the 4th Komeda Jazz Festival in 1998 Leszek Kulakowski presented his project and symphonic score called EUROFONIA. This is not his first attempt to combine symphony music with jazz. The compositions “Chopin And Other Songs” are examples of such combinations. EUROFONIA is the pure invention of Leszek. This is a very colourful composition in which a refined symphonic orchestra is the background for a swinging jazz band accompanied by a soprano singer. This is a victory for the universal values of music and most of all a great victory for Leszek Kulakowski. — Anna & Carlos Sanchez Continue reading
It wasn’t long before Wasilewski formed Simple Acoustic Trio, a group that, with the exception of one personnel change early on when Michal Miskiewicz joined, remains unchanged to this day. “We started the group when we were in school,” Wasilewski explains, “and created the name in the playground. People have asked us if the name means anything, but it doesn’t really — we just wanted to have an English name because, for us, jazz was an American music. — John Kelman Continue reading
First solo album of Simple Acoustic Trio. This is a tribute to music of Krzysztof Komeda – an extraordinary talented self-taught composer and pianist whose after his tragic, untimely death, became a legend and a cult hero of Polish jazz. All tracks on this CD were composed by Komeda. Continue reading
Bebop is still very much alive as you will find after listening to this CD. But you will find the opposite view written by many jazz historians who write, that bebop has never been understood in full and has been forgotten since the late 1940s. Parker and Gillespie’s music is still very much alive and inspiring many jazz musicians. I would like to state clearly that so called “modern jazz” began with bebop and that bebop is not the beginning of jazz. Henryk Cholinski Continue reading
“Atlas 45° – landmark on the 45th parallel, some mile north of Bucharest, geographic meeting point between Western and Eastern Europe. This album presents some of the music that was created while physically and spiritually travelling across this imaginary border.” — Interzone Continue reading