PAWEŁ KACZMARCZYK – DIRECTIONS IN MUSIC: CLIFFORD BROWN

Paweł Kaczmarczyk – piano
Jerzy Małek – trumpet
Mateusz Śliwa – tenor sax
Max Mucha – double bass
Sławek Koryzno  – drums

Tickets: 40 pln ( presale, students)/50 pln
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DIRECTIONS IN MUSIC.

Directions In Music is a project launched by Paweł Kaczmarczyk in September 2010, that is a tribute to works of the greatest jazz musicians. The rhythm section is created by the musicians of the Audiofeeling Band, whereas the guests are thematically related to the work of the artist that is presented. Each concert serves not only a meeting with the history of jazz music but also gives a unique opportunity to listen to (live!) the outstanding guests of Paweł Kaczmarczyk.

CLIFFORD BROWN

(1930-1956)

Clifford Brown  aka “Brownie”, was an American jazz trumpeter. He died at the age of 25 in a car accident, leaving behind only four years’ worth of recordings. Nonetheless, he had a considerable influence on later jazz trumpet players, including Donald Byrd, Lee Morgan, Booker Little, Arturo Sandoval and Freddie Hubbard. He was also a composer of note: two of his compositions, “Joy Spring”and “Daahoud”, have become jazz standards.

Brown won the Down Beat critics’ poll for the “New Star of the Year” in 1954; he was inducted into the Down Beat “Jazz Hall of Fame” in 1972 in the critics’ poll.

PAWEŁ KACZMARCZYK

b. February 8, 1984 in Krakow, Poland – Polish pianist, arranger, composer and sideman.

“Listening to the way Paweł Kaczmarczyk gets sounds out of the keys, we can understand what full-blooded, completely engaged jazz piano playing is all about.”Howard Reich – CHICAGO TRIBUNE

The artist’s third album “Complexity in Simplicity”, issued by the prestigious label ACT Music, opened the door to an international career for the pianist. The album was recognized as “Album of The Year”, and Paweł Kaczmarczyk named “Pianist of The Year”. (JAZZ FORUM)

Winner of the “Gazeta Wyborcza’s Cultural Flights” award, in the“Artist of The Year 2009” category, and recipient of the Jazz Music Lovers’ Grand Prix “Jazz Oscars”in the New Hope, Artist and Album of The Yearcategories.

Twice nominated for a “FRYDERYK” award, in the Jazz Musician of The Year and Phonographic Debut of The Year categories.

Actively performs in every part of the world, including Europe, the USA, India, Africa, Asia and the Arabian Peninsula.

Has appeared and worked with many world-renowned artists, including Lee Konitz, Jon Christensen, Mino Cinelu, Emil Mangelsdorff, Poogie Bell, Hadrien Feraud, Eivind Aarset, Arild Andersen, Theodosii Spassov, Janusz Muniak, Piotr Wojtasik, Adam Pierończyk, and Zbigniew Namysłowski, among others.

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JERZY MAŁEK

Trumpeter, composer, producer and lecturer at the Academy of Music in Gdańsk, born in Elblag in 1978. He is considered as one of the best Polish jazz trumpeters of the recent years and compared to such big names as Tomasz Stanko or Piotr Wojtasik.

Jerzy Małek started learning the trumpet at the age of 13 on joining a local brass band. He received a thorough musical education at the music school in Elbląg and then at the Faculty of Jazz and Contemporary Music at the Academy of Music in Katowice.

He won many awards as a soloist, bandleader and composer including: Jazz and Blues Musical Contest in Gdynia, “Key to the Career” at Pomeranian Jazz Autumn, Grand Prix at Jazz Juniors and two nominations to the Fryderyk Music Award.

Today, bound for a new musical direction, Małek widens his harmonic and melodic context adding some rhythmic elements inspired by European folk music and contemporary multicultural sounds.

His another album, Stalgia, was recorded with great European musicians: Arild Andersen, Hans van Oosterhout, Marcin Wasilewski and David Doruzka.

Collaboration:
Maria Schneider, Michał Urbaniak, Wojciech Karolak, Tomasz Szukalski, Zbigniew Namysłowski, Leszek Możdżer, Zbigniew Wegehaupt, Gary Bartz, Billy Harper, Steve Logan, Dan Tepfer, Eric Allen, Arild Andersen, Ziw Rawitz, Hans van Oosterhout, Lucas Pino, Troy Miller and many others.