Jazz Articles

Skalpel: Skalpel

by AAJ Staff
April 14, 2004

Not too far into Skalpel , a radio voice quietly allows, “Let them play their jazz records, and dance all night if they want to." And that's as good an introduction as any to this jam-oriented collection, which draws its strength from two years of record-hunting by Wroclaw producers Marcin Cichy and Igor Pudlo. One might not imagine that Poland would have a rich jazz heritage, especially given the communist decrees against the destabilizing properties of the American art form. ...