Nikola Kołodziejczyk - piano/leader
Barok Progresywny
PRIVATE EDITION
By Adam Baruch
This is the second album by Polish Jazz pianist/composer/bandleader Nikola Kołodziejczyk, recorded by an orchestra which includes fifteen musicians from a variety of musical idioms: Classical, Jazz and Folklore, who play among others original instruments from the Baroque era. Together they perform a twelve-piece suite called "Barok Progresywny" composed by Kołodziejczyk. The music was performed completely acoustically and recorded "live" without any overdubs or multiple takes.
Kołodziejczyk's
debut album released a year earlier created quite a stir on the local Polish
music scene, including a nomination for the county's most prestigious music
award. Such dramatic events are unfortunately very hard to beat and so far the
release of this album seems to have created a much more modest response.
The
music on this album is much less exciting in comparison to its predecessor. Heavily
set in Classical Music, with just brief excursions into the Jazz of Folklore
environments, the suite is dominated by melancholic, low key themes, which move
forward slowly and hesitantly, much closer to Serialism or Minimalism than
Baroque. A few excellent Jazz solos erupt sporadically, but as good as they
are, they seem to be detached from the main line of the suite and sound rather out
of place. The overall feeling the listener is left with once the music is over
is quite depressing and therefore in complete contrast to the spirit of Baroque
Music.
Kolodziejczyk
is undoubtedly a very gifted and talented musician/composer and his work so
far gives us a glimpse into his diverse and complex musical personality. Hopefully
his ambitious orchestral projects will continue to be realized and recorded,
which in today's economic reality is far from trivial. Even if this album does
not really make me to jump out of my socks, I'm looking forward to hear more of
his music, the sooner the better.
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