Adam Pierończyk

Adam Pierończyk (born 24 January 1970) is a Polish jazz saxophonist and composer. He plays tenor and soprano saxophones, as well as the zoucra.[1]

Early life

Pierończyk was born in Elblag, Poland, on 24 January 1970.[1] He learned the piano for three years from the age of eight, and later switched to saxophone.[1] After moving with his parents to Germany, he "enrolled in the jazz department at the Higher Music School".[1]

Later life and career

Pierończyk has won awards from the Polish magazine Jazz Forum: New Hope of Polish Jazz in 1997, and the readers' choice as Best Soprano Saxophonist in 2003 and 2004.[1] His tribute to pianist/composer Krzysztof Komeda, Komeda: The Innocent Sorcerer, was released in 2010.[2] His Adam Pierończyk Quartet, from around the same time, was based on saxophone and trombone, without chordal instruments.[3]

Playing style

The Jazz Book by Joachim-Ernst Berendt describes Pierończyk as an "emotionally enormously powerful stylist [...] whose playing is deeply founded in the great black tenor [saxophone] tradition".[4] His playing on Adam Pierończyk Quartet was described by a New York City Jazz Record reviewer as: "folk-futurist along the lines of Ornette Coleman, [...with] nursery-rhyme melodies that seem to change key every few bars, stringing together fragmented phrases".[3]

Discography

TitleRecordedReleasedLabelNotes
Temathe - Water Conversations10/1995 Saarbrücken, Germany01/1996TEMATHE / Germanywith Jan Oestreich, Christian Fischer
Plastinated Black Sheep03/199906/1999NOT TWO & HiFi / Poland MW 710-2with Ed Schuler, Jacek Kochan
Plastiline Black Sheep05/2001 Berlin09/2001Meta Records / Germany (Meta 012)with Johannes Fink, Maurice de Martin
Anniversary Concert for Hestia06/199608/1996DUX & Hestia / PolandDuet with Leszek Mozdzer
Leszek Mozdzer/Adam Pierończyk "19-9-1999"09/1999 Ukraine04/2000Polish Institute in Kiev & J.R.C. Jazz / Ukraine
Leszek Mozdzer /Adam Pierończyk "19-9-1999"09/1999 Ukraine09/2003GOWI Records / Poland (CDG 57)
Leszek Mozdzer/Adam Pierończyk Live in Sofia13/1997 Sofia, Bulgaria05/1998NOT TWO / Poland (MW 701-2)
Adam Pierończyk Trio - Few Minutes in the Space02/1997 Kraków, Poland05/1997GOWI Records / Poland (CDG 43)with Adam Kowalewski, Jacek Olter, Zbigniew Namyslowski
Adam Pierończyk Digivoco feat. Gary Thomas11/2000 Freiling, Austria06/2001PAO RECORDS / Austria (PAO 10230)with Gary Thomas, Gunnar Geisse, Maurice de Martin, Tadeusz Sunday
Amusos09/2002 Berlin10/2003PAO RECORDS / Austria (PAO 10900)with Mina Agossi, Henning Sieverts, Adam Kowalewski, Tadeusz Sudnik, Daniel Schroeteler
Adam Pierończyk Trio - Busem po

São Paulo

07/2005, São Paulo, Brazil05/2006META Records / Germanywith Krzysztof Dziedzic, Robert Kubiszyn, Guello, Anna Serafinska
Adam Pierończyk Trio - Live in Berlin11/2005, Berlin01/2007META Records / Germanywith Ed Schuller, Krzysztof Dziedzic
Adam Pierończyk Trio - Live at A38 DVD03/2007, Budapest, Hungary08/2008SP Records, Poland (SPDVD 01/08)with Andrzej Swies, Krzysztof Dziedzic
Adam Pierończyk Quartet - El Buscador01/2008, Gdansk, Poland01/2010JazzWerkstatt Berlin / Germany (JW 064)with Adrian Mears, Anthony Cox, Krzysztof Dziedzic
Borys Szyc / Adam Pierończyk - Gajcy12/2009 Niepolomice, Poland03/2010Muzeum Powstania Warszawskiego
Adam Pierończyk - Komeda - The Innocent Sorcerer11/2009, Warsaw, Poland11/2010JazzWerkstatt Berlin /Germany (JW 104)with Gary Thomas, Nelson Veras, Anthony Cox, Lukasz Zyta
Adam Pierończyk - The Planet of Eternal Life06/2013 Peitz, Germany11/2013JazzWerkstatt Berlin / Germany (JW 149)solo soprano saxophone album
Adam Pierończyk Quartet - A-Trane Nights01/2008 Berlin, Germany10/2014For Tune / Poland 0040(028)LIVE with Adrian Mears, Anthony Cox, Krzysztof Dziedzic
Adam Pierończyk Migratory Poets, feat. Anthony Joseph11/2014 Katowice, Poland04/2015For Tune / Poland 0061(039)with Anthony Joseph, Nelson Veras, Robert Kubiszyn, John B. Arnold
Adam Pierończyk / Miroslav Vitous - Wings 31/08 -01/09/2015 Gdansk, Poland 11/2015 For Tune / Poland

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Adam Pierończyk - soprano and tenor saxophones zoucra, Miroslav Vitous - double bass
Adam Pierończyk - Monte Albán 03/2016 Mexico 10/2016 Jazz Sound / Poland JS020 with Robert Kubiszyn, Hernan Hecht
Adam Pierończyk / Miroslav Vitous - Ad-lib Orbits July 2016 Prague, CZ 06/2017 PAO Records / Austria PAO11320 Adam Pierończyk - soprano and tenor saxophones zoucra, Miroslav Vitous - double bass
Adam Pierończyk / Miroslav Vitous - Live at NOSPR March 2016 Katowice, PL 11/2019 Jazz Sound / Poland JS021 Adam Pierończyk - soprano and tenor saxophones zoucra, Miroslav Vitous - double bass

References

  1. Romański, Marek (2009). "Adam Pierończyk". culture.pl. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
  2. Garratt, John (29 March 2011). "Adam Pieronczyk: Komeda – The Innocent Sorcerer". popmatters.com. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
  3. Greenland, Tom (October 2010). "Adam Pieronczyk Quartet (Jazzwerkstatt)". All About Jazz: New York. No. 102. p. 18.
  4. Berendt, Joachim-Ernst; Huesmann, Günther (2009). The Jazz Book: From Ragtime to the 21st Century (7th ed.). Lawrence Hill. p. 331. ISBN 978-1-55652-820-0.
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