Andrzej Jagodzinski Trio performs traditional Polish Christmas carols.
Andrzej Jagodzinski Trio
Christmas
Label: Polonia Records, (1995)
Catalogue No: CD 032
Format: CD
Condition: GENUINE, BRAND NEW, MINT, FACTORY SEALED CD
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Tracks:
1. Cicha noc (Silent Night)
2. Z narodzenia Pana
3. Gdy sie Chrystus Rodzi
4. Mizerna cicha
5. Medrcy Swiata
6. Pojdzmy wszyscy do stajenki
7. Jezus Malusienki
8. Gdy sliczna Panna
9. Lulajze Jezuniu
Line-up:
Andrzej Jagodzinski - piano
Adam Cegielski - bass
Czeslaw "Maly" Bartkowski - drums
Recorded:
Recorded in Studio Buffo - Warsaw, October 1994
About Andrzej Jagodzinski:
One of the best pianists in Poland, composer and arranger was born in 1953. He
received his degrees from the Frederick Chopin Conservatory where he studied
French Horn while already engaged by the Polish Radio and TV Symphony Orchestra.
In 1979 Jagodzinski participated in the Old Jazz Meeting Zlota Tarka and
received first prize for "pianist of the year".
He has played with some of the best jazz groups in Poland including The Old
Timers, Swing Session, String Connection, The Zbigniew Namyslowski Quartet, The
Janusz Muniak Quartet, The Big Warsaw Band, Quintessence, The Tomasz Szukalski
Quartet, The Jan Ptaszyn Wroblewski Quartet and Jarek Smietana's Polish All
Star.
Jagodzinski has toured in most European countries, Australia, and the United
States, India, Kuwait, Cuba and the former Soviet Union and has been
representing Polish jazz for the past 16 years at: Jazz Yatra-Bombay, Ost-West
Nurnberg, Jazz in Europe-Paris, Skane Festivalen in Malmo, Edinburgh Art
Festival, Ankara Music Festival, Leverkusener Jazz Tage, Istanbul International
Festival and in all the major Polish jazz festivals. Since 1981 Jagodzinski has
been performing with "Poland's first lady in jazz", Ewa Bem.
The Andrzej Jagodzinski Trio's first album, Chopin, was named Best Record of
1994 by Jazz Forum Magazine and won the Fryderyk Award (Polish Grammy) as best
jazz record of the year. With Adam Cegielski on bass and Czeslaw Bartkowski on
drums, the Jagodzinski Trio have continued to explore jazz interpretations of
Chopin, their CD output including Chopin - Live at the National Philharmonic
(1997), Once More Chopin, and Metamorphoses (both 1999). The Trio was a key
influence in launching the "Chopin stream" in Polish jazz. In 2006, besides
concerts in Poland, the Trio performed in the U.S., Argentina, Iceland, Sweden,
and Japan.
What the critics say:
One of Poland's leading jazz pianists interprets the music of the country's
greatest composer. [...] One of the best examples of classical jazz since Art
Tatum tackled Massenet. (Music and Media, England)
Most attempts to jazz up [classical music] are doomed to failure but Jagodzinski
manages to avoid the "switched-on Bach" approach, listening out for those
aspects of Chopin's celebrated pianism which are most jazz-like [...] Very
beautiful and unaffected music. (Richard Cook & Brian Morton, the Penguin Guide
to Jazz on CD, 1996)
