Ryszard Borowski - flute
Mateusz Smoczyński - violin
Rafał Sarnecki - guitar
Michał Jaros - drums
Blues On Bach
REQUIEM/LYDIAN 2020/8
By Adam Baruch
This is the debut album by a Polish Jazz quartet called Modern Blues Quartet, which comprises of flautist/composer Ryszard Borowski, violinist Mateusz Smoczyński, guitarist Rafał Sarnecki and bassist Michał Jaros. The album presents eight original compositions, all by Borowski.
As the title suggests, the music is "inspired" by compositions of Johann Sebastian Bach, and follows many similar Jazz projects mentioned in the album's liner notes. The liner notes also state that there is very little of Bach's music as such on this album, and the proximity is mostly associative, which is quite correct. The resulting music is easy on the ear and quite entertaining, obviously meant for wider audiences.
The musicians are of course some of Polish Jazz top instrumentalists, as their individual performances attest, providing plenty of excellent solo showcases. The delicate sound of a drumless quartet works very well and the excellent bass parts manage to keep the music swinging, even without percussive support. Smoczynski's parts take the music into the Gypsy Jazz idiom and are (for me) the highlights of this project. Sarnecki plays some tasty swinging guitar parts, but is less dominant. Overall this is a nice amalgam of Jazz-Classical Fusion and Smooth Jazz, which many listeners on the lighter side of the Jazz idiom can enjoy immensely.
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