Music:
Member Since: 7/24/2007
Band Website: audiofeeling.pl
Band Members:
Pawel Kaczmarczyk AUDIOFEELING TRIO
Pawel Kaczmarczyk - piano
Michal Baranski - double bass
Pawel Dobrowolski, Lukasz Zyta - drums
Pawel Kaczmarczyk AUDIOFEELING QUARTET
Pawel Kaczmarczyk - piano
Radek Nowicki, Tomasz Grzegorski - tenor saxophone
Michal Baranski - double bass
Pawel Dobrowolski, Lukasz Zyta , Sebastian Frankiewicz- drums
Pawel Kaczmarczyk AUDIOFEELING SEXTET
Pawel Kaczmarczyk - piano
Radek Nowicki - tenor saxophone
Tomasz Grzegorski - tenor saxophone
Grzegorz Piotrowski - tenor saxophone
Michal Baranski - double bass
Pawel Dobrowolski, Lukasz Zyta - drums
Rafal Sarnecki Quartet feat. Pawel Kaczmarczyk
Rafal Sarnecki - guitar
Pawel Kaczmarczyk - piano
Wojciech Pulcyn - double bass
Lukasz Zyta, Pawel Dobrowolski, Sebastian Frankiewicz - drums
Janusz Muniak Quartet
Janusz Muniak - tenor saxophone
Pawel Kaczmarczyk - piano
Maciej Adamczak - double bass
Lukasz Zyta, Krzysztof Dziedzic - drums
New Bone
Tomasz Kudyk - trumpet & flugehorn
Marcin Slusarczyk - alto saxophone
Pawel Kaczmarczyk - piano
Maciej Adamczak - double bass
Arek Skolik - drums
Monty Waters/Kazimierz Jonkisz Energy
Monty Waters - alto saxophone & vocal
Kazimierz Jonkisz - drums
Pawel Kaczmarczyk - piano
Borys Janczarski - tenor saxophone
Wojciech Pulcyn - double bass
Adam Kawonczyk Quartet
Adam Kawonczyk - trumpet & flugehorn
Pawel Kaczmarczyk - piano & fender piano
Maciej Adamczak - double bass
Pawel Dobrowolski - drums
TRIO "IN SPACE"
Pawel Kaczmarczyk - piano
Maciej Adamczak - double bass
Lukasz Zyta - drums
Jorgos Skolias & Pawel Kaczmarczyk Duett
Jorgos Skolias - vocal
Pawel Kaczmarczyk - piano
Piotr "Bocian" Cieslikowski Quartet
Piotr "Bocian" Cieslikowski - tenor saxophone & soprano saxophone
Pawel Kaczmarczyk - piano
Wojciech Pulcyn - double bass
Kazimierz Jonkisz - drums
Marcin Zupanski Quartet
Marcin Zupanski - tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone & flute
Pawel Kaczmarczyk - piano & fender piano
Maciej Adamczak - double bass
Arek Skolik - drums
Influences: Hank Jones & Janusz Muniak - Lotos Jazz Festival - Bielska Zadymka Jazzowa 2006
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: "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
Record Label: Arms Records
Type of Label: None
