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
| Title | Recorded | Released | Label | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Temathe - Water Conversations | 10/1995 Saarbrücken, Germany | 01/1996 | TEMATHE / Germany | with Jan Oestreich, Christian Fischer |
| Plastinated Black Sheep | 03/1999 | 06/1999 | NOT TWO & HiFi / Poland MW 710-2 | with Ed Schuler, Jacek Kochan |
| Plastiline Black Sheep | 05/2001 Berlin | 09/2001 | Meta Records / Germany (Meta 012) | with Johannes Fink, Maurice de Martin |
| Anniversary Concert for Hestia | 06/1996 | 08/1996 | DUX & Hestia / Poland | Duet with Leszek Mozdzer |
| Leszek Mozdzer/Adam Pierończyk "19-9-1999" | 09/1999 Ukraine | 04/2000 | Polish Institute in Kiev & J.R.C. Jazz / Ukraine | |
| Leszek Mozdzer /Adam Pierończyk "19-9-1999" | 09/1999 Ukraine | 09/2003 | GOWI Records / Poland (CDG 57) | |
| Leszek Mozdzer/Adam Pierończyk Live in Sofia | 13/1997 Sofia, Bulgaria | 05/1998 | NOT TWO / Poland (MW 701-2) | |
| Adam Pierończyk Trio - Few Minutes in the Space | 02/1997 Kraków, Poland | 05/1997 | GOWI Records / Poland (CDG 43) | with Adam Kowalewski, Jacek Olter, Zbigniew Namyslowski |
| Adam Pierończyk Digivoco feat. Gary Thomas | 11/2000 Freiling, Austria | 06/2001 | PAO RECORDS / Austria (PAO 10230) | with Gary Thomas, Gunnar Geisse, Maurice de Martin, Tadeusz Sunday |
| Amusos | 09/2002 Berlin | 10/2003 | PAO 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, Brazil | 05/2006 | META Records / Germany | with Krzysztof Dziedzic, Robert Kubiszyn, Guello, Anna Serafinska |
| Adam Pierończyk Trio - Live in Berlin | 11/2005, Berlin | 01/2007 | META Records / Germany | with Ed Schuller, Krzysztof Dziedzic |
| Adam Pierończyk Trio - Live at A38 DVD | 03/2007, Budapest, Hungary | 08/2008 | SP Records, Poland (SPDVD 01/08) | with Andrzej Swies, Krzysztof Dziedzic |
| Adam Pierończyk Quartet - El Buscador | 01/2008, Gdansk, Poland | 01/2010 | JazzWerkstatt Berlin / Germany (JW 064) | with Adrian Mears, Anthony Cox, Krzysztof Dziedzic |
| Borys Szyc / Adam Pierończyk - Gajcy | 12/2009 Niepolomice, Poland | 03/2010 | Muzeum Powstania Warszawskiego | |
| Adam Pierończyk - Komeda - The Innocent Sorcerer | 11/2009, Warsaw, Poland | 11/2010 | JazzWerkstatt Berlin /Germany (JW 104) | with Gary Thomas, Nelson Veras, Anthony Cox, Lukasz Zyta |
| Adam Pierończyk - The Planet of Eternal Life | 06/2013 Peitz, Germany | 11/2013 | JazzWerkstatt Berlin / Germany (JW 149) | solo soprano saxophone album |
| Adam Pierończyk Quartet - A-Trane Nights | 01/2008 Berlin, Germany | 10/2014 | For Tune / Poland 0040(028) | LIVE with Adrian Mears, Anthony Cox, Krzysztof Dziedzic |
| Adam Pierończyk Migratory Poets, feat. Anthony Joseph | 11/2014 Katowice, Poland | 04/2015 | For 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
0084(054) |
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
- Romański, Marek (2009). "Adam Pierończyk". culture.pl. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
- Garratt, John (29 March 2011). "Adam Pieronczyk: Komeda – The Innocent Sorcerer". popmatters.com. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
- Greenland, Tom (October 2010). "Adam Pieronczyk Quartet (Jazzwerkstatt)". All About Jazz: New York. No. 102. p. 18.
- 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.