Adam Pierończyk
Adam Pierończyk (born 24 January 1970) is a Polish jazz saxophonist and composer. He plays tenor and soprano saxophones, as well as the zoucra.[1]
Early life
[edit]Pierończyk was born in Elblag, Poland, on 24 January 1970.[1] He learned the piano for three years from the age of eight, and later switched to saxophone.[1] After moving with his parents to Germany, he "enrolled in the jazz department at the Higher Music School".[1]
Later life and career
[edit]Pierończyk has won awards from the Polish magazine Jazz Forum: New Hope of Polish Jazz in 1997, and the readers' choice as Best Soprano Saxophonist in 2003 and 2004.[1] His tribute to pianist/composer Krzysztof Komeda, Komeda: The Innocent Sorcerer, was released in 2010.[2] His Adam Pierończyk Quartet, from around the same time, was based on saxophone and trombone, without chordal instruments.[3]
Playing style
[edit]The Jazz Book by Joachim-Ernst Berendt describes Pierończyk as an "emotionally enormously powerful stylist [...] whose playing is deeply founded in the great black tenor [saxophone] tradition".[4] His playing on Adam Pierończyk Quartet was described by a New York City Jazz Record reviewer as: "folk-futurist along the lines of Ornette Coleman, [...with] nursery-rhyme melodies that seem to change key every few bars, stringing together fragmented phrases".[3]
Discography
[edit]As leader/co-leader
| Title / co-leader | Recorded | Label | Released | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Temathe - Water Conversations | 1995–10 | TEMATHE / Germany | 1996–01 | In Saarbrücken, Germany with Jan Oestreich, Christian Fischer |
| Anniversary Concert for Hestia | 1996–06 | DUX & Hestia / Poland | 1996–08 | Duet with Leszek Możdżer. Live. |
| Few Minutes in the Space | 1997–02 | GOWI Records / Poland (CDG 43) | 1997–05 | In Kraków, Poland. Trio with Adam Kowalewski, Jacek Olter, Zbigniew Namyslowski |
| Live in Sofia /with Leszek Możdżer | 1998? | NOT TWO / Poland (MW 701-2) | 1998–05 | Live in Sofia, Bulgaria |
| Plastinated Black Sheep | 1999–03 | NOT TWO & HiFi / Poland (MW 710-2) | 1999–06 | with Ed Schuler, Jacek Kochan |
| 19-9-1999 /with Leszek Możdżer | 1999–09 | Polish Institute in Kyiv & J.R.C. Jazz / Ukraine | 2000–04 | In Ukraine |
| Adam Pierończyk Digivoco /feat. Gary Thomas | 2000–11 | PAO Records / Austria (PAO 10230) | 2001–06 | in Freiling, Austria /with Gary Thomas, Gunnar Geisse, Maurice de Martin, Tadeusz Sunday |
| Plastiline Black Sheep as Plastiline Black Sheep | 2001–05 | Meta Records / Germany (Meta 012) | 2001–09 | In Berlin with Johannes Fink, Maurice de Martin |
| Amusos | 2002–09 | PAO Records / Austria (PAO 10900) | 2003–10 | In Berlin with Mina Agossi, Henning Sieverts, Adam Kowalewski, Tadeusz Sudnik, Daniel Schroeteler |
| Busem Po São Paulo | 2005–07 | META Records / Germany | 2006–05 | In São Paulo, Brazil. Trio with Krzysztof Dziedzic, Robert Kubiszyn, Guello, Anna Serafinska. |
| Live in Berlin | 2005–11 | META Records / Germany | 2007–01 | Live in Berlin. Trio with Ed Schuller, Krzysztof Dziedzic. |
| Live at A38 | 2007–07 | SP Records, Poland (SPDVD 01/08) | 2008–08 | [DVD-Video] Live in Budapest, Hungary. Trio with Andrzej Swies, Krzysztof Dziedzic. |
| El Buscador | 2008–01 | JazzWerkstatt Berlin / Germany (JW 064) | 2010–01 | In Gdansk, Poland. Quartet with Adrian Mears, Anthony Cox, Krzysztof Dziedzic. |
| A-Trane Nights | 2008–01 | For Tune / Poland (0040(028)) | 2014–10 | Live in Berlin, Germany. Quartet with Adrian Mears, Anthony Cox, Krzysztof Dziedzic. |
| Komeda – The Innocent Sorcerer | 2009–11 | JazzWerkstatt Berlin /Germany (JW 104) | 2010–11 | In Warsaw, Poland with Gary Thomas, Nelson Veras, Anthony Cox, Lukasz Zyta |
| Gajcy Szyc Pierończyk /with Borys Szyc | 2009–12 | Muzeum Powstania Warszawskiego | 2010–03 | Poetry by Tadeusz Gajcy. In Niepolomice, Poland. |
| The Planet of Eternal Life | 2013–06 | JazzWerkstatt Berlin / Germany (JW 149) | 2013–11 | In Peitz, Germany. solo soprano saxophone album. |
| Migratory Poets /feat. Anthony Joseph | 2014–11 | For Tune / Poland (0061(039)) | 2015–04 | In Katowice, Poland with Anthony Joseph, Nelson Veras, Robert Kubiszyn, John B. Arnold |
| Wings /with Miroslav Vitous | 2015–08, 2015–09 |
For Tune / Poland (0084(054)) | 2015–11 | In Gdansk, Poland |
| Monte Albán | 2016–03 | Jazz Sound / Poland (JS020 ) | 2016–10 | In Mexico with Robert Kubiszyn, Hernan Hecht |
| Live at NOSPR /with Miroslav Vitous | 2016–03 | Jazz Sound / Poland (JS021) | 2019–11 | Live in Katowice, Poland |
| Ad-lib Orbits /with Miroslav Vitous | 2016–07 | PAO Records / Austria (PAO11320) | 2017–06 | In Prague, Czech Republic |
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e Romański, Marek (2009). "Adam Pierończyk". culture.pl. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
- ^ Garratt, John (29 March 2011). "Adam Pieronczyk: Komeda – The Innocent Sorcerer". popmatters.com. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
- ^ a b Greenland, Tom (October 2010). "Adam Pieronczyk Quartet (Jazzwerkstatt)". All About Jazz: New York. No. 102. p. 18.
- ^ Berendt, Joachim-Ernst; Huesmann, Günther (2009). The Jazz Book: From Ragtime to the 21st Century (7th ed.). Lawrence Hill. p. 331. ISBN 978-1-55652-820-0.
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