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Pawel Kaczmarczyk AUDIOFEELING Band (quartet)
Pawel Kaczmarczyk - piano
Radek Nowicki - saxophones
Wojciech Pulcyn - double bass
Łukasz Żyta - drums
Pawel Kaczmarczyk AUDIOFEELING Band (ethno)
Pawel Kaczmarczyk - piano
Hovik Hovanisian - duduk
José Manuel Albán Juárez - percussion
Radek Nowicki - saxophones
Wojciech Pulcyn - double bass, oud
Paweł Dobrowolski - drums
Pawel Kaczmarczyk AUDIOFEELING Band (sextet)
Pawel Kaczmarczyk - piano
Radek Nowicki - tenor saxophone
Tomasz Grzegorski - tenor saxophone
Jerzy Małek - trumpet
Michal Baranski - double bass
Pawel Dobrowolski - drums
Rafal Sarnecki Quartet
Rafal Sarnecki - guitar
Pawel Kaczmarczyk - piano
Wojciech Pulcyn - double bass
Lukasz Zyta - drums
Grzech Piotrowski - EMOTRONICA
Grzech Piotrowski - saxophones, programing, fx
Pawel Kaczmarczyk - acoustic & electric piano
Robert Cichy - guitar
Piotr Żaczek- bass
Robrt Luty - drums
String Quartet
Janusz Muniak Quartet
Janusz Muniak - tenor saxophone
Pawel Kaczmarczyk - piano
Maciej Adamczak - double bass
Lukasz Zyta - drums
New Bone
Tomasz Kudyk - trumpet & flugehorn
Marcin Slusarczyk - alto saxophone
Pawel Kaczmarczyk - piano
Maciej Adamczak - double bass
Arek Skolik - drums
MARITA ALBÁN JUÁREZ Band
Marita Alban Juarez - vocal
Pawel Kaczmarczyk - piano
Maciej Szczycinski - double bass
Jose Manolo Alban Juarez - percussions
Alchemik
Grzech Piotrowski - tenor saxophone & soprano saxophone
Pawel Kaczmarczyk - piano
Marcin Murawski - double bass
Robert Luty - drums
Influences
Janusz Muniak Quartet feat. Don Cherry
Wayne Shorter Quartet with polish bass player Roman "Gucio" Dylag - Molde 1966
Brad Mehldau Trio with polish bass player Darek "Oles" Oleszkiewicz - Jazz Vitoria Gasteiz
Sounds Like
“After the festivities of Andršta, it was time for the highlight of the evening in Hradci to take place – i.e. the performance of Mike Stern, with his musical partners Dave Weckl and Randy Brecker. But did they really turn out to be the evening's biggest surprise?
Poland, recognized as a major force in European jazz, presented one of its jazz icons – pianist/composer Paweł Kaczmarczyk. His album “Audiofeeling” (released by Arms Records 2007/ Hevhetia) has won a series of prestigious awards in Poland, as well as receiving glowing reviews from the critics. Consequently, there's nothing surprising in the fact that this CD has been topping sales records in our northern neighbor country. The Audiofeeling Band brought a dose of energy and spontaneity onto the festival stage that was unlike anything we've heard here for years. Kaczmarczyk's varied compositions placed an emphasis on expression, and telepathic communication with the remaining members of the band: bassist Wojciech Pulcyn, drummer Sebastian Frankiewicz and saxophonist Radek Nowicki. The pianist's music related to the general direction of that of Keith Jarrett and Wayne Shorter, which is consistent with the band leader's “audiofeeling” concept. Kaczmarczyk crossed fluidly from smooth, well-balanced tableaux of sound into ecstatic solos, constantly observing the reactions of his band-mates. This concert no doubt left quite a few highly creative, harmoniously constructed compositions and melodies in the listeners' memories. Kaczmarczyk's music, it should be added, is not something that's aimed at a mass audience; it requires a listener's full attention, concentration and engagement. Perhaps one day we'll get to hear all of the members of the Polish pianist's band that played on his album: bassist Michał Barański, drummer Paweł Dobrowolski, and saxophonists Tomasz Grzegorski and Grzegorz Piotrowski. The audience reacted to Kaczmarczyk's music so spontaneously that, at times, I got the impression that even the much-awaited Mike Stern had been upstaged a bit.”
skjazz.sk , March 2009
Peter Motyčka
“Poland's Audiofeeling opened the festival with a storming hour of music. Pianist and leader Pawel Kaczmarczyk showed a great variety in his playing, gradually edging from soothing, lyrical intros into full-on stomping gospel, at times mixing in hints of McCoy Tyner chords. He was ably supported by the flawless teamwork of bassist Michal Baranski and drummer Pawel Dobrowolski, who broke into a frantic drum n bass rhythm during a fast riff-based tune. Complete with the agile Radek Nowicki on saxophones, this hard-playing band have an evident love for music-making which was a pleasure for the Dublin audience. “
Drop – d Music Journal, February 2009
John O Flynn
"I'm going to go two brilliant young talents, both pianists, from Poland. Pawel Kaczmarczyk
from a deep jazz background can shock...(...)"
"Tomorrow is the question: who to look out for in 2008" - JAZZWISE, January 2008
Stuart Nicholson
"Pawel Kaczmarczyk - more than promise.
For three years now, Krakow pianist Pawel Kaczmarczyk has remained at the top of the "New Promise for Polish Jazz" category of Jazz Forum Magazine's Jazz Top readers' poll. His album "Audiofeeling" was one of the past year's most significant phonographic debuts of the genre, because Kaczmarczyk represents more than just new promise for Polish jazz. His music shows us that there are things happening on this country's improvised music scene - very good things.
References to Keith Jarret and Herbie Hancock are obvious here, but there's nothing particularly surprising about that. Musical mannerisms of that sort are pretty much unavoidable for virtually all young musicians who study this art, because Greats such as those are the ones who defined the direction in which it's going. Yet, despite still being a student at the Katowice Academy of Music's Jazz Institute, Kaczmarczyk has already managed to acquire a considerable amount of experience in the wider world of jazz, because for several years now, he's been working on a regular basis with various stars of the Polish jazz scene
- like Krakow saxophonist Janusz Muniak, for example. He has also been seen and heard with luminaries such as Adam Pieronczyk, Monty Waters and Kazimierz Jonkisz, to name a few.
And despite his age, Kaczmarczyk is quite confident in what he has to offer. He is able to depart from traditional, well-trodden formulae; he experiments boldly, flying off into wild improvisational excursions. His piano playing is highly expressive, sometimes even explosive. Listening to "Audiofeeling", one can get the impression that at times the young artist is at times unable to restrain his emotions. In this case, though, this is actually more of a virtue than it is a shortcoming, because what we're given here is a healthy dose of truly spontaneously improvised - as opposed to meticulously calculated - playing.
Kaczmarczyk also writes beautiful, mood-filled ballads ("Padee") - the likes of which many a major artist wouldn't be ashamed to sign his name to. And a moment later, he surprises us with a high-powered jazz frenzy.
He is joined on the CD by his trio's regular rhythm section: Pawel Dobrowolski, a drummer who captivates the listener with his outstanding drive and timbral range, and bassist Michal Baranski, who distinguishes himself with a strong, rich bass sound. There are also guest appearances by three saxophonists - Radek Nowicki, Tomasz Grzegorski and Grzegorz Piotrowski - who give the overall group sound a truly intense edge on "Charlie Knows".
There are sometimes hints of club music, and even classical hues, in the modern jazz of Kaczmarczyk's trio (he did, after all, begin as a classically trained pianist). In a couple of the pieces we can also hear traces of Polish folk melodies. All of this, plus a discrete touch of electronics, makes his music sound exceptionally fresh and engaging.
Also important is the fact that the young artist doesn't present us with the usual musical boilerplate of standards and schematics, already heard a million times over. He is able to construct something that constitutes a well-rounded totality, has his own musical vision and the determination to realise it according to his own instincts. In this he is indeed superb."
Review of "Audiofeeling" - Gazeta Wyborcza, December 2007
Tomasz Handzlik
"Like a demon.
We've already written, several years ago in the pages of Newsweek, about the powerful weapon of Polish jazz tat is the piano. There's a veritable pack of hungry young lions following in the footsteps of Leszek Mozdzer.
Among them we have refined aesthetes such as Marcin Wasilewski (currently coming into his own under the egis of Tomasz Stanko); there are also untamed rebels like Slawek Jaskulke (serving his apprenticeship with Namyslowski). Pawel Kaczmarczyk is younger than they are, but no less menacing. He is also under the tutelage of a seasoned Master - Janusz Muniak. Most importantly, he has already managed to develop a language of his own - one that can be described as somewhere between those of Wasilewski and Jaskulke - which ranges from charming subtlety that lilts and swings, to ferocious attacks on the keyboard that can make the demons in hell grasp their heads, wondering what all the commotion upstairs is about. He places his chords beautifully, like a painter, and when ceding the spotlight to another instrumentalist (for instance Michal Baranski - excellent bass!), Kaczmarczyk is able to shift gears, becoming a truly subtle accompanist. (...)I could take issue with the vocalizing during improvised melodic passages. (...) But other than that, may he continue in the direction he seems to be going - excellent."
Review of "Audiofeeling" - Newsweek, December 200
Filip Lobodzinski
"Pawel Kaczmarczyk represents the hope for a return of the times of the likes of Komeda and Trzaskowski, that it will once again be said – Poland is alive with jazz. (…) In quartet form, the music approaches the abstract realms of some of Wayne Shorter's work, but there are also moments where the tension builds to a level of ecstasy, Coltrane style. The rhythm section plays a very important role here – it's afforded a lot of independence, and makes use of it masterfully. (...)"
Review of "Audiofeeling" from "Hi-Fi i Muzyka", October 2007
Marek Romanski
"(…)The CD contains music that is extraordinary in a number of respects. All of the pieces have been worked out with amazing precision, and are characterized by their every note seeming as if it were meticulously thought over. In terms of form, this album comes across as a unified whole; however, this music also evinces the full range of the pianist's capabilities – elasticity, compositional and stylistic freedom.(…)It is for this reason that "Audiofeeling" is an album that draws one in, interests and fascinates. It's a CD well worth picking up, without a doubt."
Review of "Audiofeeling" from "Jazz Press", April 2007
Piotr Orlowski
"The trio constitutes nothing less than than a paradigm of interaction in various relationships (bass-drums, bass-piano, piano-drums,
piano-bass-drums) that, paired with a full yet subdued and lucid overall sound, constitutes a whole which can satisfy even the most demanding jazz-oriented ear. The tenor saxophone - in the hands of three different musicians - lends taste to this music, at times suggesting a diverse range (Shorter?, Coltrane?) of inspirations."
Review of "Audiofeeling" - Jazz Forum, October 2007
Tomasz Szachowski
"(...)... This is not just a CD to mess around with on one's computer, but a structure that demands the active participation of the listener. I have proof: While listening, it can be useful to turn the volume knob up once or twice. Indeed, this recording has been realised with great care, yet the music is so alluring that one only wants to understand it more
fully.(...)"
Review of "Audiofeeling" - Jazz Forum, October 2007
Adam Poprawa
"(...)... The next to last composition, "Charlie Knows", also features a splendid trio of saxophonists - Radoslaw Nowicki, Tomasz Grzegorski and Grzegorz Piotrowski. Grzegorski's warm, laid-back playing is especially pleasing to the ear on "The Ring", a piece inspired by the beautiful composition "Blue in Green", of Miles Davis fame. The album is quite varied, yet very coherent, and one reaches for it with increasing pleasure, discovering something new in it with each successive listening."
Review of "Audiofeeling" - Przeglad, October 2007
Aleksandra Panko
"(...)... An excellent example of how tradition can be melded with modernity in jazz, to obtain great results. I believe that this album will be pleasing to the tastes of lovers of modern jazz, as well as those who prefer more traditional playing.(...) "Audiofeeling" is, in fact, Pawel Kaczmarczyk's first artistic statement under his own name.
I'll be waiting impatiently for the ones that are sure to follow."
Review of "Audiofeeling" - Onet.pl, October 2007
Ilona Cierpisz
Kaczmarczyk's records have been also noticed as remarkable productions:
- Pawel Kaczmarczyk "Audiofeeling" feat. M.Baranski, P.Dobrowolski, R.Nowicki, T.Grzegorski, G.Piotrowski - was voted in the JAZZ FORUM (The European Jazz Magazine) Album of the Year (2007)
- Kaczmarczyk/Baranski/Dobrowolski Trio received Polish Public Television Channel 2's "Album of The Year 2005" award for the CD "Live!"
Pawel Kaczmarczyk AUDIOFEELING Band - "Complexity in Simplicity" (ACT MUSIC. 2009)
There would be something missing from European jazz as we know it without the addition of
Poland’s distinctive voice. Krzysztof Komeda and Tomasz Stańko for example were at the forefront of the wave of musicians who purposefully translated the urgent sounds of freedom emanating from
Miles Davis and John Coltrane into a uniquely European vocabulary, enthralling not only the jazz scene in their homeland, but serving as a source of inspiration for musicians throughout the world.
In Poland, the younger generation of jazz musicians such as Leszek Możdżer and Marcin Wasilewski
are celebrated like pop stars, and have made themselves well known outside of Poland. 25 year old
pianist Paweł Kaczmarczyk is on the right path to follow them - ever since his “Live” album
with the KBD trio was chosen as the “Album of the Year” in the 2005 Polish Public Television Channel 2 awards, he has been considered a major force in polish jazz music. In the same year he won the MELOMANI jazz society’s major prize, Poland’s so-called “Jazz Oscar”. Since then the readers of Poland’s prestigious Jazz Forum magazine have regularly voted him “most promising” musician in the publication’s yearly poll, and in 2007, the magazine named Audiofeeling, Kaczmarczyk’s first album as leader “Album of the Year”. With his debut release as an ACT recording artist, Complexity In Simplicity, Paweł Kaczmarczyk jumps onto the international stage.
“Audiofeeling” is not only the name of his band - the line-up on Complexity In Simplicity shifts between a classical piano trio to a septet, comprised of the most promising of the young generation of Polish musicians - it’s what Kaczmarczyk calls the broad spectrum of sounds that compose his musical personality. “Diversity” is the word that best describes Poland’s contemporary jazz scene, and the same goes for Complexity In Simplicity: the rugged hands-on quintet on Logan opens the album with multi-layered polyrhythmic post-bop structures, while in a trio format Kaczmarczyk delicately sounds out the simple beauty of Elton John’s ballad “Blue Eyes”. The title piece “Complexity In Simplicity” is a collective improvisation; as carefully as a spider weaves its web, Kaczmarczyk’s lines are threaded into the emerging denser grooves. “Catch More Chicks” is groovy soul-jazz, the hard bop-directed “Homage To Freddie” is a tribute to trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, who died at the end of 2008, and with the lyrical “Elegy For E.S.” Kaczmarczyk remembers the Swedish pianist and musical mastermind Esbjörn Svensson.
To make the complex sound easy and still maintain a sense of excitement, one needs to have either a lot of experience or – like Kaczmarczyk has – an exceptional talent. With his band he narrates a set of terrific multi-level modern jazz episodes filled with the youthful spirit of adventure. Playful sound textures and power playing, extroverted up-tempo jazz, and introverted ballads, deep-rooted swing, hard bop and avant-garde fantasies, horn passages, and above all piano playing in an experimental field that ranges between Bill Evans, Esbjörn Svensson and Brad Mehldau – Paweł Kaczmarczyk’s eclectic and kaleidoscopic music is so multi-dimensional that, paradoxically, you can simply reduce it to a single sentence: it’s well worth a listen!
Pawel Kaczmarczyk
One of Poland's pre-eminent jazz pianists from the younger generation, a student of the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music's Jazz Studies program in Katowice, composer, soloist and sideman. He performs with the Janusz Muniak Quartet, G.Piotrowski - EMOTRONICA, Alchemik Strings, New Bone, and the Rafal Sarnecki Quartet, as well as leading his own AUDIOFEELING Band. Pawel Kaczmarczyk has received many awards at various festivals and competitions: a special distinction at the 2002 edition of the Polish National Review of Jazz and Blues Groups in Gdynia, where he returned to take top honors in 2003; the title of Best Instrumentalist at Poland's Jazz Juniors competition in 2002 an award for the best arrangement at the International Competition for Jazz Groups "JUNIOR JAZZ 2006", in Usti nad Labem (Czech Republic), as well as first place in the "New Hope" category of Jazz Forum Magazine's "Jazz Top" readers' poll from 2004 through 2007. The year 2006 also saw him being awarded a grant from the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. Pawel Kaczmarczyk is a winner of the "Melomani" Jazz Society's Jazz Oscars Grand Prix in the "Hope of the Melomani" category for 2005.
In 2001 Pawel Kaczmarczyk established a trio with Michal Baranski on bass, and Pawel Dobrowolski on drums. The group draws its inspiration from the work of artists like Herbie Hancock and Bill Evans; the concepts of Brada Mehldau and Wayne Shorter form part of their musical vocabulary as well. It's music that is full of warmth and sensitivity, but with no lack of electrifying dynamics and avant-garde ideas. The trio won first place at the 26th "Jazz Juniors" International Competition for Young and Debuting Jazz Groups (2002), took the "Grand Prix" at the 40th "Jazz on the Oder" Jazz Festival in Wroclaw (2004), and was awarded the "Key to a Career" prize at the "Pomeranian Jazz Autumn" festival, as well as winning the 2nd Place "Golden Crocus" award at the Jelenia Gora Jazz Festival, several medals at the "Kultursalen Horbiger" competition in Vienna (2004), and 1st Place at the "JUNIOR JAZZ 2006" International Competition for Jazz Groups in Usti nad Labem (Czech Republic).
Pawel Kaczmarczyk has performed at a large number jazz festivals, including London Jazz Festival (London - UK), Leverkusener Jazztage (Leverkusen-Germany), Jazz Goes To Town (Hradec Kralove-Czech Republic), Jazznica (Banská Štiavnica - Slovak Republic), Jazz Meeting (Berlin-Germany), Gulf Jazz Festival (Kuwait), Gulf Jazz Nights (Dubai - United Arab Emirates), Goerlitz Jazztage (Goerlitz-Germany), 12.International Festival of Jazz Piano (Prague-Czech Republic), Warsaw Summer Jazz Days, Jazz en Nord (Lille-France), Jazzy Colors Festiwal (Paris-France), Krakow's "Zaduszki Jazzowe In Chicago" (USA) and "Piwnica pod Baranami" Summer Festival, the Palatia Jazz Festival (Dirmstein-Germany), Prishtina Jazz Festival (Kosova), the Lamantin Jazz Festival (Szombathely-Hungary), "Jazz Bez..." (L'viv - Ukraine), the International Jazz Pianists' Festival in Kalisz, Lotos Jazz Festival – Bielska Zadymka Jazzowa, and many others... He also performs regularly in Poland's (Tygmont, U Muniaka, Blue Note) and German’s finest jazz clubs.
In 2005, the KBD Trio recorded their debut album "Live!", which they are currently promoting through concerts in Poland and abroad.
Pawel Kaczmarczyk has worked with a wide range of musicians, including Janusz Muniak, Lee Konitz, Steve McCraven, Wayne Dockery, Piotr Wojtasik, Adam Pieronczyk, Zbigniew Namyslowski, Roman "Gucio" Dylag, Bronislaw Suchanek, Janusz Stefanski, Pawel Jarzebski, Adam Kawonczyk, Jorgos Skolias, Monty Waters, Kazimierz Jonkisz, Artur Rojek (Myslovitz), Krzysztof Popek, Krzesimir Dębski, Cezary Konrad, Tomasz Szukalski, Zbigniew Wegehaupt, Maciej Strzelczyk, Isham Rusty Jones, Grzech Piotrowski, Zach Brock, Brad Terry, Rafal Sarnecki, Aga Zaryan, Emil Kowalski, Lukasz Zyta, Maciej Adamczak, Adam Kowalewski, Jerzy Malek, Wojciech Pulcyn, Marcin Slusarczyk, Piotr Baron, Michal Baranski, Krzysztof Dziedzic, Pawel Dobrowolski, Radek Nowicki, Tomasz Grzegorski, Marek Balata, Adam Baldych and many others.
The magazine "Jazz Forum" conducts a yearly readers' poll known as "Jazz Top", which is a ranking of Poland's jazz musicians and, in a sense, an overview of the country's jazz scene. Earlier this year, the poll results for 2007 were published and Pawel Kaczmarczyk placed highly in the Pianist of The Year category (2th, behind Leszek Mozdzer), as well as winning recognition as a Composer, Leader of an Acoustic Group (3rd, behind Tomasz Stanko Quartet and Simple Acoustic Trio), and Musician of The Year. What seems most significant, however, is that for the fourth year in a row he was at the top of the "The New Hope Of Polish Jazz" category.
Paweł Kaczmarczyk AUDIOFEELING Band - 1 in 3
Lamantin Jazz Festival (Hungary) 2009
Pawel Kaczmarczyk AUDIOFEELING Band - Adorable Little Rose
Olympus Jazz Nights 2008
Rafal Sarnecki Quartet presenting the first song on the new CD: "Songs From A New Place" - "Living Like Weasels". The CD will be released in September 2008
with Kazimierz Jonkisz Energy "Afro Blue" - January 2008
with Tranespired in Warsaw - 20 IX 2008.
Pawel Kaczmarczyk AUDIOFEELING Band (P.Kaczmarczyk-p. R.Nowicki-ts. M.Baranski-b. P.Dobrowolski-dr.). Lotos Jazz Festival - Bielska Zadymka Jazzowa II.2007
Pawel Kaczmarczyk with New Bone - Sopot Jazz Festival 2007
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