Witold Janiak - piano
Rafał Różalski - double bass
Kamil Miszewski - drums
Zagrajcie Swoją Muzykę
PRIVATE EDITION
By Adam Baruch
This is the fourth album by Polish Jazz pianist/composer Witold Janiak, recorded in a classic piano trio setting with bassist Rafał Różalski and drummer Kamil Miszewski. It presents nine traditional Polish folkloristic tunes rearranged into the Jazz idiom by Janiak. The album was recorded at the excellent Studio Tokarnia and engineered by Jan Smoczyński, with the usual superb sound result.
Judging by the number of albums
related to Polish Folklore it seems that the Polish Jazz scene rediscovered its
roots in 2015, in
a way repeating a trend that was quite popular in the 1960s and 1970s. Some of
those recent albums are truly revealing and present superb aesthetic
achievements, while others sadly are much less original and seem to just blindly
follow a fad.
Janiak and his trio are very
proficient musicians and their playing is without reproach all the way through,
but the resulting music simply does not rise above the level of being
"nice". There is no fire or emotional stir that makes a Jazz album
rise above the average. The folkloristic influence is very marginal and does
not come forward enough, beyond stating the basic melody line, failing to
achieve the amalgamation of the two genres.
To be fair this is still a very
decent piano trio album, which many Jazz fans can enjoy; it simply does not
compare to other exceptional Jazz albums released in Poland, which are way more artistic,
engaging and fulfilling.
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