Legendary recording of Polish Jazz from 1960s' featuring Kurylewicz on trombone, Nahorny on alto sax, Perkowski on drums and double bass bill: Ostaszewski and Kozlowski. Special guest star - Wanda Warska - vocal.
 Audio Clip: 10+8

Andrzej Kurylewicz Quintet
10 + 8 (TEN+EIGHT)
Polish Jazz vol.14

Label: Polskie Nagrania - Muza , 1967/2006
Catalogue No: PNCD 1014 (XL 0439)
Format: CD (24-bit re-mastered from original master tapes)
Condition: GENUINE, BRAND NEW, MINT, FACTORY SEALED, DIGI-PACK DELUXE PACKAGING

Tracks: 1. Juz ja z toba nie zostane (I Won't Stay With You) (A. Kurylewicz) [07:04] 2. Requiem dla Z.C. (Requiem For Z.C.) (A. Kurylewicz) [03:06] 3. 10 + 8 (A. Kurylewicz) [10:10] 4. Rondo (A. Kurylewicz) [11:45] 5. Twarz widza (Spectator's Face) (W. Nahorny) [08:47]

Performed by:

Andrzej Kurylewicz - valve trombone, piano, rebela
Wlodzimierz Nahorny - alto sax
Jacek Ostaszewski - bass, tambourine
Janusz Kozlowski - bass
Sergiusz Perkowski - drums
Wanda Warska - vocal

Recorded:

in Warsaw, October 1967

About:

ANDRZEJ KURYLEWICZ - composer, pianist, trumpet-player, trombonist.
Born in Lvov, 1932. His musical education began in the Music School (Szkola Muzyczna) in Lvov and in the Institute of Music (Instytut Muzyczny) in Gliwice. He went on to study in the High School of Music (Wyzsza Szkola Muzyczna) in Kraków - piano under Henryk Sztompka, composition under Stanislaw Wiechowicz. He made his debut as the founder of the Polish Radio Jazz Band (Zespol Jazzowy Polskiego Radia) in Kraków. He conducted the Polish Radio and Television Orchestra in Warsaw. In 1969 he founded the Formation of Contemporary Music (Formacja Muzyki Wspolczesnej - strings, brass and percussion), which he led till 1979. In 1967, in Warsaw’s Old Town, with his wife Wanda Warska - a singer and painter – he opened "Piwnica Artystyczna Kurylewiczow" – a studio for the performance of musical and literary forms, distinct and combined. Andrzej Kurylewicz is one of the most outstanding personalities in contempary Polish music. He is a passionate artist, who has changed several times the field of his interests and activities. He has given concerts - both as a conductor and instrumentalist - throughout Europe, as well as South and North America. In 1965 he received the Polish Radio and Television Award; in 1978, the Award of the City of Warsaw; in 1981, the Prix Italia;
in 1987, the Medal of the City of Warsaw. He has also received many prizes for his compositions for film and theatre. In 1984 he took up the position of composer-in-residence of the city of Wilhelmshaven. Throughout the late 80’s and early 90’s, he maintained a close association with the State University in Kansas (USA). As a composer, he belongs - as he himself has put it – to the "post-avant-garde" of the late 20th century. He has composed numerous pieces for symphonic orchestra, for chamber orchestra, as well as many song-cycles, psalms for Latin texts, a "Missa Brevis" for the Roman Missal, and a wide range of solo works, for piano, harpsichord, organ, flute, tuba, double-bass, and others. As a pianist, Andrzej Kurylewicz values highly the music of Karol Szymanowski, offering particularly outstanding interpretations of all twenty-two of that composer’s Mazurkas. In his improvisations on the piano, he has been particularly innovative in combining classical and contemporary music with jazz.