Liliana Kostrzewa - grand piano
Paweł Grzesiuk - bass guitar
Radek Wośko - drums
The First Entrance To The Garden
RECART 0013
By Adam Baruch
This is the debut album by the Polish Jazz piano trio, called LeeMeet Trio, led by young pianist/composer Liliana Kostrzewa, with bassist Pawel Grzesiuk and drummer Radek Wosko. The album consists of eight tracks, five of which are originals by Kostrzewa, one is a standard, one a folk tune and the remaining one is an arrangement of a Chick Corea tune.
The music is a pretty
straight-forward mainstream effort, melodic and well organized, and holding no
surprises or unexpected twists. The bassist plays electric bass, which sets the
entire sound of the trio astray from the classic piano trio sound. The original
compositions are nice, but somewhat simplistic, and hesitant, but considering
this is a debut effort at least Kostrzewa plays her own material rather than
playing standards.
Technically the performances
suffer from minor imperfections, like a poor balance between the instruments,
with the piano being often dominated by the rhythm section and synch problems
between the players. Kostrzewa has a very delicate touch and her playing the
piano requires a much softer and compassionate rhythmic support. Her technical
repertoire is also still underdeveloped, but she does show a lot of potential
and surely will get better in time. Overall not a bad debut, which
hopefully is just a first step of a long and successful career for everybody
involved.
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