Jazz Articles about Maciej Obara

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QuartSky at The 19th Summer Jazz Academy

by Marek J. Śmietański
August 13, 2026

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Gard Nilssen's Supersonic Orchestra: Family

by Mark Corroto
September 30, 2023

Why can't all music be supersonic? That does not mean supersonic as in a speed exceeding that of sound, but sound that is sonically superlative. Drummer, composer, and bandleader Gard Nilssen's music is seemingly always sonically superb. His 17-piece Supersonic Orchestra was captured in 2022 at the Mondriaan Jazz Festival in Den Haag, Netherlands, for Family, his follow-up to If You Listen Carefully The Music Is Yours (Odin 2020). The Supersonic Orchestra is made up of seven saxophones ...

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Maciej Obara Quartet al 12° Festival Musicale Krzysztof Komeda

by Angelo Leonardi
October 8, 2021

Maciej Obara International Quartet 12° Festival Muzyki Filmowej Krzysztofa Komedy Varsavia 27.9.2021 Per il ruolo fortemente innovativo avuto sul jazz in Polonia, il romantico lirismo espresso in brani memorabili e la morte in giovane età, Krzysztof Komeda ha incarnato l'archetipo dell'eroe tragico e resta l'emblema del jazz polacco. Non c'è forse alcun jazzmen della patria di Chopin che non abbia reinterpretato i suoi temi o rivolto a lui un tributo. Maciej ...

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Maciej Obara Quartet: Three Crowns

by Mark Sullivan
November 2, 2019

For its sophomore ECM release this Polish/Norwegian quartet titled the album after the Trzy Korony summit of the Pieniny mountain range in the south of Poland. While it may be premature to describe the album as a peak or summit, it is a substantial artistic statement. There have been prior jazz interpretations of works by Polish composer Henryk Mikołaj Górecki—whom Maciej Obara came to know before his 2010 passing while living in the composer's hometown of Katowice—but the two versions ...

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Maciej Obara: Unloved

by Mario Calvitti
May 9, 2018

Al suo esordio su etichetta ECM, l'altosassofonista polacco Maciej Obara, classe 1981, è in realtà al suo nono disco da titolare, e al quarto (ma primo realizzato in studio) con il quartetto di cui è leader, completato dal connazionale pianista Dominic Wania (conosciuto quando entrambi militavano nel gruppo del trombettista Tomasz Stanko) e da una sezione ritmica tutta norvegese formata dal contrabbassista Ole Morten Vågan e dal batterista Gard Nilssen, precedentemente già apparsi, benché separatamente, in altre produzioni ECM.

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Maciej Obara: Unloved

by Mike Jurkovic
December 23, 2017

Seemingly from thin air, the meditative music on Unloved, Polish alto saxophonist Maciej Obara's ECM debut, envelopes you in its improvisatory, chamber atmosphere and stays with you through the darker parts of the day. Spectral piano Dominik Wania, expressive double bass Ole Morten Vagan and airy percussion Gard Nilssden, composers and band leaders all, contribute mightily and selflessly to Obara's bare, lyrical sketches; filling them out and forming them into a whole consciousness, into motifs and tone poems ...

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Maciej Obara: Unloved

by Ian Patterson
December 19, 2017

Unloved marks a before and after for alto saxophonist/composer Maciej Obara, whose star has gradually risen since his debut as leader, Message from Ohayo (Polish Radio Katowice, 2007), and his subsequent stint with Tomasz Stanko's New Balladyna Quartet. However, it's arguably with his quintet Obara International, featuring Dominik Wania, Gard Nilssen, Ole Morten Vågan and Tom Arthurs, that Obara has attracted most attention. Championed by Jazztopad festival's international showcase tours, Obara International's extensive travels have been documented in several excellent ...