Pawel Kaczmarczyk AUDIOFEELING - Autumn 2008 Tour:
11.September – Liepzig Jazztage - DE
5.October – Olympus Jazz Nights Festival (Warsaw) - PL
10.October – Jazz Meeting Festival (Berlin) – DE
15.October – Instytucie Jazzowym (Darmstadt) – DE
17.October – International Jazz Festival „Jazz Goes To Town” - Hradec Kralove – CZ
18.October – Cofeina – Sucha Beskidzka - PL
22.November – Jazz Jantar Festival (Gdansk) - PL
25.November– Jazzy Colors Festival (Paris) – FR
“Audiofeeling”
This album was recorded at Polish Public Radio’s studio in Olsztyn. The recording engineer was Ryszard Szmit, and the piano was taken care of by Marek Buczniewicz, who also prepares instruments for Keith Jarrett, among others. “Audiofeeling” includes 10 compositions by Kaczmarczyk, comprising an overview of his musical interests and fascinations.
While it’s not the most accessible or ‘easy’ music, being of a somewhat different nature than the ’smooth jazz’ now in vogue, it conveys the true face of jazz as an improvised art. At the recording sessions, the musicians (Pawel Kaczmarczyk - piano, Michal Baranski - bass, Pawel Dobrowolski - drums, Grzegorz Piotrowski, Tomasz Grzegorski and Radek Nowicki - saxophones) didn’t play any written-out parts, but played ‘live’, creating the final shape of each piece as it happened.
In a sense, this is a recording of a concert. The album was pressed on a gold CD storage medium. This gives the disc a lifetime several times longer than that of aluminum-based CDs, as well as slightly better sound quality.
Sound Quality
Realisation of the best possible quality is a priority for ARMS. Prior to being sent for pressing, all recordings are listened to on dozens of various hi-fi systems, in an effort to make it possible to obtain optimal sound quality in a home listening environment. ARMS releases have won high praise in the audiophile community. A recent album - “Sin” - has been recognised as being of reference quality for the testing of home as well as studio audio systems. Others - for example Leszek Mozdzer’s “Piano” and Piotr Zaczek’s “Mutru” - have also drawn favorable opinions on the phonographic market.
From an audiophile perspective, “Audiofeeling” isn’t particularly enthralling upon its initial listening, due to the fact that the aspects of the overall sound which were focused on in the course of its creation were not the ambience, effective bass and a broad spectrum of overtones one expects from a recording of this quality. Here, the point was to recreate the raw sound of the band.
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 Jazz Trio received Polish Public Television Channel 2’s “Album of The Year 2005″ award for the CD “Live!”
Pawel Kaczmarczyk
One of Poland’s pre-eminent jazz pianists from the younger generation, a student of the Karol Szymanowki Academy of Music’s Jazz Studies program in Katowice, composer, soloist and sideman. He performs with the Janusz Muniak Quartet, New Bone, and the Rafal Sarnecki Quintet, as well as leading his own trio. 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 (2002), 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 28.Leverkusener Jazztage (Leverkusen-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), 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, 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, 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.
Pawe? Kaczmarczyk - piano www.myspace.com/audiofeeling
Radek Nowicki – tenor & soprano saxophone www.myspace.com/radeknowicki
Michal Baranski - double bass www.myspace.com/michalbaranski
Lukasz Zyta - drums www.myspace.com/lukaszzyta
More info : audiofeeling@onet.pl WWW.audiofeeling.pl
