Bernard Kawka - vocals
Ewa Wanat - vocals
Janusz Mych - vocals
Waldemar Parzyński - vocals
Torpedo (Polish Jazz Vol.87 Deluxe)
MUZA 1087
By Adam Baruch
This is a reissue of the second album by the seminal vocal group NOVI Singers, one of the most acclaimed Polish Jazz acts in the 1960s and 1970s, and one of the most influential vocal ensembles of all times. Led by the charismatic vocalist/composer/arranger Bernard Kawka, the group also included the sensational female vocalist Ewa Wanat and two more male vocalists/composers/arrangers: Janusz Mych and Waldemar Parzyński. Following the formula set by their sensational debut album, they perform original music composed and arranged by Kawka, Mych and Parzyński (except for one Classical piece).
The vocal quartet is
accompanied by a superb instrumental team, which includes some of the best
Polish Jazz musicians at the time, including pianist Adam Makowicz, drummer
Czesław Bartkowski and many others, as well as the Polish Radio Jazz Studio
Orchestra, led by Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski. The rich instrumental arrangements
were one of the differences between NOVI Singers and
the earlier European Jazz vocal ensembles like Les Double Six or The Swingle
Singers.
This album, as all early
recordings by NOVI Singers, is absolutely immune to
the tides of time and sounds today as magnificent as it was at the time of its
recording. NOVI Singers definitely left a mark on the Jazz vocal idiom, setting an
incredibly high standard, which sadly was later on followed by only very few
similar ensembles.
Side Note: This is one
of those Polish Jazz albums, released by the Polskie Nagrania/Muza label,
which should have been released as part of the legendary "Polish
Jazz" series at the time, but somehow never made it. From the historic
perspective it definitely deserved to be a part of that series and this was
partially corrected by this edition, as it is one of the items in the expanded
"Polish Jazz Deluxe" series of reissues.
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