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Piotr Turkiewicz: Putting Wroclaw On The Jazz Map
by Ian Patterson
At just thirty seven years of age it's hard to believe that Piotr Turkiewicz has been pulling the strings of Jazztopad for almost a decade already. The festival, staged each November in the Polish city of Wroclaw, was already a few years old when Turkiewicz became Artistic Director in 2008, but under the canny stewardship of Turkiewicz and General Director Andrzej Kosendiak, Jazztopad has been transformed, in both style and substance, to become one of Europe's more progressively minded jazz ...
Continue ReadingObara International Quartet at Dizzy's Cub Coca-Cola
by Ernest Barteldes
Obara International Quartet Dizzy's Cub Coca-Cola June 30, 2015 New York, NY On their US debut, the binational (Polish/Norwegian) quartet led by alto saxophonist Maciej Obara kicked off their early set with an up-tempo piece that began with a screaming solo from the leader, who played a flurry of notes before passing the solo duties to pianist Dominik Wania (both are former members of legendary trumpeter Tomasz Stanko's band) while bassist Ole ...
Continue ReadingObara International: Live at Manggha
by Eyal Hareuveni
The sophomore release of Polish-Norwegian quartet Obara International, led by rising Polish alto saxophonist Maciej Obara, solidifies his affinity with cool Nordic jazz. The group is not only the powerful rhythm section of resourceful Norwegians--double bassist Ole Morten Vågan and drummer Gard Nilssen. Lush phrasing by Obara himself and emphatic, profound interplay rounded out by the fantastic young pianist Dominic Wania suggests a formative influence by the Jan Garbarek Norwegian-Swedish quartet from the seventies (with pianist Bobo Stenson, double bassist ...
Continue ReadingThe Fonda - Stevens Group: Trio+2 – Live in Katowice
by AAJ Italy Staff
Questo live polacco dell'autunno 2009 ci regala un'istantanea particolarmente densa, corporea, vitalistica, del gruppo diretto dalla premiata ditta Fonda-Stevens. Gli impasti che si vengono a generare coi due sassofoni (o ance più in generale) di Wojtczak e Obara determinano percorsi affermativi, energetici, per ampi tratti più leggibili di quelli a cui la coppia ci ha abituati nel corso degli anni (specie su etichetta Leo). L'estetica free appare in effetti meno prevaricante del solito, quanto meno mai esasperata (piena, ovunque, la ...
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