Polish Jazz vol. 4 THE ANDRZEJ TRZASKOWSKI QUINTET
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Andrzej Trzaskowski...has played something of a pioneering role in the brief history of Polish jazz...as a composer Trzaskowski goes far beyond the confines of jazz. His wide knowledge of musical compositions enables him to express himself in the idioms of Webern and Messiaen, as well as in those of neoclassicists... Audio Clip: Wariacja Jazzowa na temat Chmiela
THE ANDRZEJ TRZASKOWSKI QUINTET The Andrzej Trzaskowski Quintet Polish Jazz vol. 4
Label: Polskie Nagrania - Muza / Polskie Radio, 1965/2005 Catalogue No: PRCD 535 (XL 0258) Format: CD (24-bit re-mastered in 2005 at Polskie Nagrania from original master tapes) Condition: GENUINE, BRAND NEW, FACTORY SEALED
Tracks 1-4 - January 20-22, 1965, tracks 5-6 - February 18 1965 at Polskie Nagrania Studio, Warsaw, Poland
Performed by:
Andrzej Trzaskowski - piano Tomasz Stanko - trumpet (1,2,4) Janusz Muniak - soprano sax (1,2,4), alto sax (1,4) Jacek Ostaszewski - bass Adam Jedrzejowski - drums
About:
Andrzej Trzaskowski was born in Krakow, Poland, March 23, 1933. He played the piano as a child and later studied musicology at university in Krakow (to 1957); he also took private lessons in composition and contemporary music theory and was active at the experimental studio of Polish radio. In 1951 he helped to form Melomani, one of the first Polish swing and bop groups. During 1958 he played and recorded with the Jazz Believers, a quintet that included Wojciech Karolak and Jan Wróblewski, and worked with another quintet, led by Jerzy Matuszkiewicz. The following year he formed his own hard-bop group, the Wreckers, with which he toured the USA in 1962; as the leader of small groups he performed and recorded with American musicians visiting Poland, such as Stan Getz (1960) and Ted Curson (1965-6). Many leading Polish musicians, including Zbigniew Namyslowski, Tomasz Stanko, and Michal Urbaniak, played with his groups early in their careers. Trzaskowski began to incorporate avant-garde techniques in his work from 1964. In the late 1960s he worked regularly for Norddeutscher Rundfunk in Hamburg, West Germany, writing more than 20 compositions and participating in workshops, then from 1975 he led an orchestra for Polish radio and television. Although an excellent pianist, from the early 1970s he has concentrated more on composition. He has written music for films and theater, two jazz ballets, and Nihil novi, a third-stream work performed by Don Ellis at the International Jazz Jamboree in Warsaw (1962). Adam Slawinski (taken from original vinyl album cover - the entire text is included on CD edition)
"...jazz critics rank (Trzaskowski's) albums among the most important recordings of European jazz of the '60s. They are essential documents of an era when jazz musicians in Europe started to seek their own artistic identity, independent of prevailing American models..." Pawel Brodowski ('Jazz Forum')
