Nyheder
24.06.2022
Europe Jazz Media Chart
Juli 2022
Yves Tassin, JazzMania
Spook: SPOOK (Werf)
Lying on the ground, listening to headphones while doing nothing...
Paweł Brodowski, Jazz Forum
Piotr Schmidt International Sextet: KOMEDA UNKNOWN 1967 (SJRecords)
Just when you start to think that this area has been fully explored, there is always a new Komeda project lurking around the corner. But the truth is the legendary Polish pianist and composer Krzysztof Komeda has released only three full LPs during his lifetime: BALLET ETUDES (Metronome 1963), his most famous ASTIGMATIC (Polish Jazz vol. 5 1965), and MEINE SÜSSE EUROPÄISCHE HEIMAT (Columbia / EMI). The latter was a jazz and poetry session produced by Joachim-Ernst Berendt in Baden-Baden in June 1967, before Komeda’s final departure for Hollywood.
The sensational news is that now, 55 years later, it came to light that Komeda had prepared for the project more compositions than just those that made it to the wax. Six unknown pieces (only sheet music) have been discovered in the archives of the National Library in Warsaw!
Trumpeter Piotr Schmidt decided to record these compositions with his own arrangements, trying to capture Komeda’s original spirit. In this effort he has received support of the first-class players making up the Piotr Schmidt International Sextet. The team include the leader on trumpet, Kęstutis Vaiginis (s), David Dorużka (g), Paweł Tomaszewski (p), Michał Barański (b), and Sebastian Kuchczyński (d), with two American musicians guesting on some of the pieces: Harish Raghavan (b) and Jonathan Barber (d).
Jos Demol, jazzhalo.be
David Venitucci: EN EQUILIBRE (EPM Musique)
EN ÉQUILIBRE is an oasis of calm, situated somewhere between jazz, impressionist music and imaginary folklore, in a different place, soulful, and this is undoubtedly a privilege in our uncertain times. It’s an awakening dream that we could barely touch. (Denis Desassis)
Christof Thurnherr, Jazz’n’More
Myra Melford’s Fire And Water Quintet: FOR THE LOVE OF FIRE AND WATER (RogueArt)