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7 lutego 2010
The Wasilewski Trio leaving Australia tomorrow
greetings from their impresario
Greetings from Perth where we arrived for the Perth International Arts Festival and will give the Trio's last concert on Monday evening before they fly back to Poland on Tuesday from here. The concerts in Canberra and Adelaide and Brisbane were all very good, with very nice piano especially in Adelaide, but Melbourne was especially terrific with very excellent sound and again a Steinway grand in a fine hall. There were reviews in the SMH on 29/1 as well as The Australian. Also in the Adelaide Advertiser on 02/02 and one will be in the Melbourne Age on 8 or 9 Feb. See below the link to the web review of the Canberra concert. Cheers. Henk.

Wasilewski Trio performing in Sydney. View photogallery by Tom Koprowski

* * * Great gig. Everyone's been very positive about it. "Beyond Bill Evans" was a comment by one mate. I'm looking forward to hearing it again some time on ArtSound. Here's the writeup and pics. BTW, some interesting news. Bosendorfer in Vienna found my report and have quoted on their site and also will use a pic for their front page for a few months, from today or tommorrow.

www.boesendorfer.com/en/current-news.html?page=5454

Eric Pozza
canbjazz@gmail.com

* * * Led by pianist Marcin Wasilewski this Polish trio delivered a concert of chamber jazz where a rhythmic pulse was not always to the fore, but when it was, the music swung like Foucault’s pendulum. In an auditorium with notoriously difficult acoustics, especially for drum kits, drummer Michal Miskiewicz was able to exercise enough restraint on cymbals and skins to lessen the problem. However the sounds of the piano, and Slawomir Kurkiewicz’s double bass were untroubled.

One of the hallmarks of European jazz is the wide-ranging inclusion of influences from classical music, and there were many in this trio’s playing. Some glittering passages were of such romantic refinement that they might have been written by Debussy. Presenting a number of pieces from their new CD “January”, the trio’s mood varied from the delicate introspection of “First Touch” to a light bluesy rendition of the Prince composition, “Diamonds and Pearls.” The piano moved in a hyper-fast blur of notes, building intensity in “King Korn,” echoed by similar speedy phrasings in the bass solo that followed.

As well as Wasilewski’s own compositions the program included a couple by US pianist Keith Jarrett and an elongated interpretation of Enrico Morricone’s theme from “Cinema Paradiso.” The three players were beautifully integrated throughout, with drums playing a supportive melodic role to the inspired perceptions of piano and bass.

John McBeath