PAWEŁ KACZMARCZYK – DIRECTIONS IN MUSIC: CHARLIE HADEN

Mateusz Śliwa – tenor sax
Paweł Kaczmarczyk – piano
Wojciech Pulcyn – double bass
Paweł Dobrowolski – drums

Tickets: 30 pln ( presale, students)/40 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.

CHARLIE HADEN

(1937-2014)

Charles Edward “Charlie” Haden was an American jazz double bass player, bandleader, composer and educator known for his long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman, pianist Keith Jarrett, his Liberation Music Orchestra, with arrangements by pianist Carla Bley, and his band formed in the 1980s, Quartet West.

As a member of saxophonist Ornette Coleman’s early bands, bassist Charlie Haden became known as one of free jazz’s founding fathers. Haden never settled into any of jazz’s many stylistic niches, however. Certainly he played his share of dissonant music  in the ’60 and ’70s, as a sideman withColeman and Keith Jarrett, and as a leader of the Liberation Music Orchestra, for instance, but for the most part, he seemed drawn to consonance. Witness his trio with saxophonist Jan Garbarek and guitarist Egberto Gismonti, whose ECM album Silence epitomized a profoundly lyrical and harmonically simple aesthetic; or his duo with guitarist Pat Metheny, which had as much to do with American folk traditions as with jazz. There was a soulful reserve to Haden’s art. Never did he play two notes when one (or none) would do. Not a flashy player along the lines of a Scott LaFaro (who also played with Coleman), Haden’s facility may have been limited, but his sound and intensity of expression were as deep as any jazz bassist’s. Rather than concentrate on speed and agility, Haden subtly explored his instrument’s timbral possibilities with a sure hand and sensitive e

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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