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Marcin Wasilewski Trio - 30th Anniversary Tour 2024The Marcin Wasilewski Trio, founded in 1990 as the Simple Acoustic Trio by 15-year-old High School of Music students: pianist Marcin Wasilewski and bassist Sławomir Kurkiewicz, who were joined in 1994 by drummer Michał Miśkiewicz (then aged 17), has been playing in this unchanged line-up for 30 years since then.
The Marcin Wasilewski Trio is celebrating their 30th anniversary in style, and we invite you to be a part of their extraordinary journey. The trio has achieved international recognition for their exceptional talent and ability to captivate audiences, leaving a lasting impression with their powerful and emotionally charged performance with depth and sheer musicality.
For the past three remarkable decades, the Marcin Wasilewski Trio has graced the world of jazz with their extraordinary talent and unwavering commitment to musical excellence. With a career spanning 30 years, this trio has become synonymous with innovation and storytelling through their music. Their remarkable journey includes collaborations with jazz luminaries like Tomasz Stanko, Joe Lovano, and Charles Lloyd along with the release of seven exceptional albums under the ECM Records label.
In their native Poland, they are unquestionable leaders of the prestigious Fryderyk Awards statuettes for their exceptional contributions to the music landscape. Throughout their career, they have maintained a consistent standard of artistry, connecting deeply with audiences and leaving an indelible mark on the global jazz community.
Continuing to carry the torch of the Polish jazz tradition from Krzysztof Komeda, through Tomasz Stanko, to the world, the Marcin Wasilewski Trio stands as a testament to the enduring legacy of Polish jazz on the global stage.
We would be delighted to meet with you on our concerts to make 2024 an unforgettable year.
The Marcin Wasilewski Trio- 30th Anniversary Tour 2024 is co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland and co-organized by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute.
We encourage you to visit the band's official website and our social media:
www: https://www.marcinwasilewskitrio.com/
Facebook: @marcinwasilewskitrio.official
Instagram: @marcin_wasilewski_trio
The Trio's most recent album entitled "En attendant" is available for purchase on CD, LP, digital, and on streaming services: https://ecm.lnk.to/EnAttendant.
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“Their years together have resulted in an ensemble with an utterly symbiotic creative flow,” - Don Heckman, The Los Angeles Times
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MARCIN WASILEWSKI TRIO - "En attendant"
Marcin Wasilewski – piano
Slawomir Kurkiewicz – double bass
Michał Miskiewicz – drums
«This project delivers a beautiful, well-paced suite of tunes that seems quintessentially the trio.» (London Jazz News)
“There’s a galaxy of piano trios in today’s jazz universe,” the BBC Music Magazine has noted, “but few shine as bright as Marcin Wasilewski’s”.
The Trio is the undisputed star of Polish jazz and for years has been recognized by international critics as one of the most outstanding and the most unique jazz formations of its generation, while enjoying the recognition of jazz fans around the world.
As M.W.Trio they have already recorded seven albums for ECM, three albums with the late Tomasz Stanko in his Quartet, as well as a number of other collaborations. On Trio’s seventh ECM album the multifaceted Polish group illuminates a characteristically wide span of music. Fluidity is the hallmark, allied to the deep listening made possible by more than a quarter-century of collaborative music-making by Trio members.
“Their years together have resulted in an ensemble with an utterly symbiotic creative flow,” observed Don Heckman in the Los Angeles Times, when the Marcin Wasilewski Trio was first making its presence felt on the international jazz scene.
The improvisational communication among the players has continued to deepen over the years, along with their range of creative options. En attendant pays testimony to the musicians’ far-reaching imagination and to the ways in which the group’s lucid musical language can integrate influence from disparate sources.
Recorded just prior to their Arctic Riff collaboration with Joe Lovano, En attendant finds Marcin Wasilewski, Slawomir Kurkiewicz, and Michal Miskiewicz in a thoughtful, exploratory mood. The multifaceted Polish group illuminates a characteristically wide span of music, the scope extending from Bach to group improvisation. On En attendant, collectively created pieces are juxtaposed with Wasilewski’s malleable “Glimmer of Hope”, Carla Bley’s timeless “Vashkar”, The Doors’ hypnotic “Riders on the Storm” and a selection from Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg Variations, transformed in the context. Fluidity is the hallmark, allied to the deep listening made possible by more than a quarter-century of collaborative music-making.
The tripartite “In Motion” offers the most thorough account yet of the trio’s capacity for finding forms in the moment, shaping and developing musical structures with a running sense of architectural proportion. “In Motion Part I” gives way to Variation 25 from the Goldberg Variations, a reminder that all roads lead to Bach, eventually. The trio’s take on the minor key aria gently probes its atmosphere of dark passion and encircles its exquisite melody.
Paul Bley’s Footloose! recording of 1963 was where many musicians first learned about Carla Bley as a composer. As Marcin Wasilewski recently noted it “opened the gates to something undiscovered”, including the inexhaustible mysteries of tunes like “Vashkar,” which has become one of the pieces the trio likes to revisit, always finding something new inside it.
Pop and rock cover versions have also long been part of the trio’s story. Earlier recordings have found the group re-contextualising Björk’s “Hyperballad”, Prince’s “Diamonds and Pearls”, the Police’s “Message in a Bottle” and more. The Doors’ iconic “Riders on the Storm” now joins the list, in a subtly unconventional arrangement. While the rhythmic feel here hews to a bubbling groove close to the original, bassist Slawomir Kurkewicz is to the fore for much of the tune, soloing inside the form, while Wasilewski mines the harmonies.
Marcin’s rubato ballad “Glimmer of Hope” moves like waves, floating its glistening motive through changing tonalities over Michal Miskiewicz’s detailed cymbals and drums.
En attendant was recorded at Studios La Buissonne in the South of France in August 2019 and produced by Manfred Eicher.
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Public Onsale : Fri, 12 Jul 2024 at 10:00 AM
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Cadogan Hall, 10 Wilbraham Place, London, SW1X 9AA, United Kingdom,London, United Kingdom
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