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COMPLEXITY IN SIMPLICITY / Pawel Kaczmarczyk

ACT (2009)

Jazz / Piano Jazz

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COMPLEXITY IN SIMPLICITY

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“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 funky Groove Jazz, the hard bop-directed “Homage To Freddie” is a tribute to trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, who died at the end of 2008. With the lyrical “Elegy For E.S.” Kaczmarczyk remembers the Swedish pianist and musical mastermind of e.s.t., Esbjörn Svensson, whom he met at a festival in 2004. There, Svensson praised the Polish pianist for his concert, then he himself got up on stage and played an “unbelievable concert,” relates Kacmarczyk; “I immediately bought several of his CDs. And I dreamt about what an honour it would be for me to be able to record for ACT sometime.” WithComplexity and Simplicity this dream has come true.

Song List

  • 1. Logan - Prologue - 01:24 (Kaczmarczyk, Pawel)
  • 2. Logan - 06:23 (Kaczmarczyk, Pawel)
  • 3. Blue Eyes - 02:37 (John, Elton)
  • 4. Fauchery - 11:02 (Kaczmarczyk, Pawel)
  • 5. Homage To Freddie - 07:14 (Kaczmarczyk, Pawel)
  • 6. Elegy For E.S. - 08:08 (Kaczmarczyk, Pawel)
  • 7. Complexity in Simplicity - 05:05 (Kaczmarczyk, Pawel / Nowicki, Radek / Baranski, Michal / Dobrowolski, Pawel)
  • 8. Catch More Chicks - 06:26 (Kaczmarczyk, Pawel)
  • 9. Adorable Little Rose - 07:35 (Kaczmarczyk, Pawel)
  • 10. Samara - 03:25 (Kaczmarczyk, Pawel)
  • 11. Fauchery - Resumption - 03:28 (Kaczmarczyk, Pawel)

Comments

 

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!

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