Franciszek Raczkowski – Yamaha C3 piano
Album's title: "Ocean"
Label: self-released (2026)
Link to music on Bandcamp
Review author: Viačeslavas Gliožeris
The world is full of piano solo albums – and all listeners are divided into those who love them all as a separate genre (a smaller part) and others, like me, who have mixed feelings. The reason is quite simple. Nearly every more or less renowned jazz piano player has recorded a piano solo album at least once in his life (not all of them are released, though). As a result, we have a monstrous amount of such recordings, which often offer quality, but... quite boring listening. Predictability, sameness... call it as you like – there are not many really original solo jazz piano releases around. Keith Jarrett's “The Köln Concert” success and the imitators' wave that followed made the situation even worse.






