Complete chronicles of Polish Jazz milestone - 2nd Sopot Jazz Festival 1957. Featuring Krzysztof Komeda, Melomani, Albert Nicholas, Emil Mangelsdorff, Bill Ramsey, and Joki Freund.
There is an unspoken understanding between us, an intuitive impulse that allows us to develop music in a direction that is surprising and pleasing to both the audience, and the three of us, without any prior rehearsals or agreements. (Krzysztof Herdzin)
Enjoy and dig this really fine music showing you mastery, feelings and invention, not to mention the magical merging of different instrumental colors; listen to the flute - trumpet unison phases; or harmonized passages; to the wonderfully sculptured bass foundations; to growling and an dynamically controlled rolls of Victor's fascinating drums; the admirable improvises solos of flute and trumpet on "June Bug" and - carefully listen what Randy does beneath: the inventive comping, now and again exploding in wonderful soling.
A winning combination of mature mainstream with sophistication of fresh post-bop acoustic sound and perfectly selected neo classics from composers ranging from Kenny Barron to Wayne Shorter to ...Krzysztof Popek.
In his decision to go for the double bass, Lemanczyk followed the voice of his soul. You can hear it in each and every note of "Follow the Soul". His performance is characterized by a strong and resolute attack on the string, a deep and full tone, precision of articulation, melodic invention. (Krzysztof Kuczkowski)
The 5th piano LP in series of "Polish Jazz" is merely indicating the domination of the piano by subtle exposure of the piano solo or by correlating the instrumental arrangement with the piano texture - and not other way around.
On releasing his CD, Nowicki was aged thirty-one—exactly the same age as Coltrane at the time of his first original album. A pure coincidence and, of course, of no particular significance, and yet it seems like a good omen...
This beautifully realized set includes six separate CD's from Polish Jazz Masters: JAN PTASZYN WROBLEWSKI,KRZYSZTOF SADOWSKI, ANDRZEJ KURYLEWICZ, WOJCIECH KAROLAK, JERZY MILIAN and JANUSZ MUNIAK
This beautifully realized set includes six separate CD's from Polish Jazz Masters: KRZYSZTOF KOMEDA, TOMASZ STANKO, ZBIGNIEW NAMYSLOWSKI, ADAM MAKOWICZ, MICHAL URBANIAK and ANDRZEJ KURYLEWICZ.
Three well-versed jazz musicians congregated at a ranch house basement recording studio on Beatrice Street in Livonia Michigan to document all of my original tunes (all at that time) by performing them without rehearsals, without second takes, without any audio enhancements, and improvising solos based on the feelings created in the moment.
This disc features the late Roy Brooks on drums and Ray McKinney on bass. The collection contains a combination of earlier released albums: The Bob Szajner Triad, a 3-record set and released individually as Jazz Opus 20/40, Sound Ideas, and Afterthoughts. This is unrehearsed, live jazz played without retakes. It results in a highly improvised, spontaneous, but still very cohesive musical undertaking. Very enjoyable if you can do without fancy sound engineering and other audio enhancements. This CD is straight up acoustic jazz with some excellent solos throughout.
In 2007, approaching the end of his musical endeavors and wishing to leave a record of everything he ever recorded, Bob Szajner revived his label RMS007 Records and released his complete discography on seven CD's: Jazz Opus 20/40, Sound Ideas, Afterthoughts, The Lost Tapes, The Best of Triad, Center//Cuts and Loose Ends.
Take a gloomy night in May 1981, plus a room not meant for recording, plus a piano destined for the "keyboard cemetery", plus a sound engineer unfamiliar with the finer aspects of recording and add to this three talented jazz artists playing original material and you have a strange concoction indeed. If sound quality is all you want in a jazz recordings, please DO NOT listen to this album. But, if you are a curious adventurous soul willing to look and listen past the technical imperfections of the recorded production on the underlying artistic talent and unique content of these improvised vehicles patterned after '50s-'60s "classic" jazz genre, then this is for you to review and hopefully enjoy!!
Center\Cuts is a collection of bop and hard bop tunes recorded live at the Detroit Jazz Center World Stage in 1981. Marked by easy, infectious melodies and grooves, and steady swinging basslines, this disc features some nice solos and exchanges between musicians. Especially of note is track #3, which features a twanging and swift-fingered bass solo, and upbeat, snappy drums. Arrangements are straight-forward and simply structured. The true essence of jazz improvisation is displayed here. A good listen.
