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Quinsin Nachoff’s Flux & Hot Heros
by Maurice Hogue
A pair of albums from Northern European artists demonstrate a similar approach in this episode--improvising upon the folk melodies of their countries--Poland's Irek Wojtczak and his Folk Five and Finland's Hot Heros. For Wojtczak, he's just happy to see his recording available: the radio station that was recording the live concert lost the tapes, but fortunately, ...
Folk Five
By Irek Wojtczak & The Fonda-Stevens Group
Label: Fortune Records
Released: 2015
Track listing: Ale Zagrajze Mi Kowola (Play the Kowal); Cztery Mile Za Warszawa (It Was Four Miles Out of Warsaw); Leczycki (Oberek Dance From Leczycki); Pod Gazem (Typsy); Kiej Jo Ide W Pole (When I Go to the Field); Weselny (For the Wedding); Oj Stary Jo se Stary (Oh, Am I Old); Ogrywka.
Wojtczak NY Connection
By Irek Wojtczak & The Fonda-Stevens Group
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2015
Track listing: Ale Zagrajze Mi Kowola; Cztery Mile Za Warszawa; Leczycki; Pod Gazem;
Kiej Jo Ide W Pole; Weselny; Oj Stary; Jo se Stary; Ogrywka.
Irek Wojtczak & The Fonda-Stevens Group: Folk Five
by Angelo Leonardi
Il connubio con la tradizione folklorica è stata una delle costanti del jazz in Polonia. Dal loro enorme patrimonio di canti e danze popolari hanno tratto ispirazione -direttamente o indirettamente-importanti jazzmen di quel Paese: si va dall'opera pionieristica di Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski e di Zygmunt Wichary a quella di Zbigniew Namyslowski, Michal Urbaniak, Andrzej Trzaskowski e ...
Irek Wojtczak & The Fonda-Stevens Group: Folk Five
by Budd Kopman
Polish jazz has a long history, and includes many more players than the widely known Tomasz Stanko or Krzysztof Komeda. A deeper, and much earlier influence than American jazz coming to Poland is that of the folk music indigenous to Poland itself. Reedman (saxophones and bass clarinet) Irek Wojtczak, arguably a free player, relates ...
Irek Wojtczak & The Fonda-Stevens Group: Wojtczak NY Connection
by C. Michael Bailey
Jazz from the edge of Eastern Europe. Wojtczak NY Connection is very much and East meets West jazz endeavor. Irek Wojtczak is a Polish saxophonist, conservatory trained and stage proven. For the Wojtczak NY Connection, Wojtczak joins the New York City-based Fonda/Stevens Group (bassist Joe Fonda and pianist Michael Stevens) for an internationally-flavored eutectoid. The results ...
Irek Wojtczak & The Fonda-Stevens Group: Folk Five
by Karl Ackermann
The substantial music community in Eastern Europe has a particular affinity for incorporating elements of regional and ethnic music into modern jazz. Gypsy jazz, klezmer and various strains of ethno-fusion have often been combined so that regional influences and free jazz serve as a shared platform, at times addressing political and social causes. For Polish saxophonist ...