(Post-Bop / Modal Music) Mateusz Smoczynski Quintet - Inspirations - 2006, APE (image+.cue), lossless

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My fascination of John Coltrane and Zbigniew Seifert is almost as long as my interest in jazz itself. Energy, the great power of expression are the most characteristic features of the music of the two great masters. We would like that our music comprises all those emotional layers that can be found in their music. I believe the energy which emanates from their music and which inspired me to make this record will be well received by music lovers.
This record is the tribute to John Coltrane and Zbigniew Seifert for their music, for how they played, for inspiration. (Mateusz Smoczynski)
"Inspirations" is a debut record of Mateusz Smoczynski's quintet. This album is an acknowledgement to the idols of the group's leader, John Coltrane and Zbigniew Seifert, for their music, the way they played, the people they were and for their inspiration. The art of those two masters is a basis for Mateusz Smoczynski's music which he plays in his own way retaining the original energy and way of expression. Apart from the leader who plays the violin, the quintet consists of his brother, Jan Smoczynski (his compositions are included on the album), Konrad Zemler, Wojciech Pulcyn and Roman Slefarski. (smoczynski.pl)
Review in Tygodnik Powszechny:
Inspirations is an extraordinary undertaking which is exceptionally fulfilled. It is more interesting which path the band is going to take in the future. And the future is very complex in this case - Adam Poprawa
Review in Jazz Forum:
A legendary model, brilliant realisation and maybe a forecast for a jazz sensation quite soon! I give four stars with a huge plus - Tomasz Szachowski
Mateusz Smoczynski - presently a student in his fourth year at the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw. He is a jazz violinist who debuted in 1999 at the Kalatowki Jazz Camp with Jackek Namyslowski's Quintet. He won the first place and an individual distinction at the Nationwide Review of Young Jazz Bands in Gdynia and in 2000 he won second place at the Festival of Jazz Standards in Siedlce. He has performed in various events including the Festival of Jazz Pianists in Kalisz, the Summer Jazz Festival at Piwnica Pod Baranami at the Sopot Jetty Jazz Festival, the Jazz Forum Festival, the Polish Jamboree and the Bracki Jazz Festival in Cieszyn. He plays with the best Polish musicians such as Janusz Skowron, Kazimierz Jonkisz, Zbigniew Wegehaupt and Zbigniew Namyslowski. Presently he is working with his own band with Konrad Zemler on guitar, his elder brother, Jan on piano, Wojciech Pulcyn on double-bass and Roman Slefarski on drums and this group recorded his first album Inspirations. They play music inspired by Zbigniew Seifert and John Coltrane's Quintet compositions.
Konrad Zemler - a graduate of the Jazz and Entertainment Music Faculty at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice. He is a first prize laureate of the Marek Blizinski Master Competition - Guitar City 99. With the band Blue Mind Quartet he became a laureate of the Jazz Angel Statuette at the Bielska Zadymka Jazzowa Festival 2002 and has worked with T. Szukalski, J. Muniak, A. Pieronczyk and J. Malek among others.
Jan Smoczynski - a graduate of the Jazz Faculty in Katowice in the W. Niedziela Class. For the last year he has been a pupil of A. Jagodzinski in Jazz Studies in Warsaw (Bednarska Street). He is a permanent member of the Michal Urbaniak and Urszula Dudziak (music director) Band, J. Malek's Quintet, M. Balata's Quintet and his own Trio and has also had the pleasure to give concerts with E. Bem, T. Szukalski, J. Muniak, Z. Namyslowski, A. Cudzich, J. Kochan, A. Olejniczak and J. Smietana. He is a first place (Trio) laureate and individual prize winner at the Jazz Juniors 2001 international jazz competition. Alongside this, he won the individual prize and second group place at the Nationwide Jazz Standards Festival 2000 in Siedlce and first place with the J. Namyslowski's Quintet at the Nationwide Review of Young Jazz Bands in Gdynia. He has performed at the Gdynia Summer Jazz Days, the Jazz Pianist Festival in Kalisz, the Jazz Na Starowce, Summer Jazz Festival Pod Baranami, the Krakowskie Zaduszki Jazzowe, the Sopot Jetty Jazz Festival, Zaduszki Jazzowe w Siedlcach; the Jazz Forum Festival in Tygmont, the Polish Jamboree in Tygmont, the Bracki Jazz Festival in Cieszyn, the Jazz Festival in Radom, Jazz on a couch in Olesnica and the Jazz Nights in Gdansk. He is also a multiple participator at the Jazz Camping Kalatowki. In 2002 he worked with J. Malek's Quintet and recorded the Gift album. He performed as a guest on an album 15 Minute Project by J. Mlynarski and has played in the USA (Chicago, N.Y.), Canada, Japan, Israel, Span, Sweden, Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, Romania, Ukraine, Hungary and Slovakia.
Wojciech Pulcyn - a graduate of the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw (Jazz Faculty) and Post-secondary Education Jazz Study in Warsaw in professor Z. Wegehaupt's class. In 1995 he managed to win first prize with Joint Venture band, an individual distinction and a composition distinction at the Jazz Juniors International Jazz Bands Competition in Cracow. With the same band he won the first prize at Jazz Standards Competition 1997 in Siedlce and a distinction in the Jazz Bands Competition in Hoeilaart in Belgium. In 1998 together with the Marcin Masecki Trio he won first prize in the Jazz Standards Competition in Siedlce, third place at the Jazz Juniors International Jazz Bands Competition in Cracow and a distinction in the Jazz Bands Competitions in Sarteano in Italy. In 1999 with his own band New Orchestra he won third place in the Jazz Juniors Jazz Band Competition in Cracow.
Roman Slefarski - drummer, born in 1977. He is a graduate of Jazz Faculty in the Fryderyk Chopin Group of National Music Schools in Warsaw. Together with Michal Jaros and Marcin Urban he won the Grand Prix in the New faces of Polish jazz category at the Jazz nad Odra Festival in 1996.

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