Faithful (Marcin Wasilewski album)
Faithful is an album by Polish jazz pianist and composer Marcin Wasilewski recorded in 2010 and released on the ECM label.[1][2][3]
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Released | April 21, 2011 | |||
Recorded | August 2010 | |||
Studio | Auditorio Radiotelevisione svizzera, Lugano | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 71:45 | |||
Label | ECM ECM 2208 | |||
Producer | Manfred Eicher | |||
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Reception
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In JazzTimes Brent Burton wrote "Turn it up loud or turn it down low; either way, it’s one of the best piano-trio recordings you’ll hear this year".[6] The Guardian;s critic John Fordham observed: "Like their earlier ECM albums Trio and January, Faithful is predominantly pensive, but the trio are vivacious even while dreamwalking".[4] For All About Jazz, John Kelman wrote: "Wasilewski may be the titular leader, and contribute all the original material, but Faithful clearly relies entirely on the strength of a collective for whom lyricism is paramount, regardless of the context—direct and driven or implicit and suggestive, but always placing the whole as the objective beyond its individual contributing voices".[5]
Track listing
- All compositions by Marcin Wasilewski, except where indicated.
- "An Den Kleinen Radioapparat" (Hanns Eisler) - 4:30
- "Night Train to You" - 10:41
- "Faithful" (Ornette Coleman) - 7:16
- "Mosaic" - 10:34
- "Ballad of the Sad Young Men" (Fran Landesman, Tommy Wolf) - 5:29
- "Oz Guizos" (Hermeto Pascoal) - 6:32
- "Song for Swirek" - 8:14
- "Woke Up in the Desert" - 5:32
- "Big Foot" (Paul Bley) - 6:21
- "Lugano Lake" - 6:33
Personnel
- Marcin Wasilewski - piano
- Slawomir Kurkiewicz - bass
- Michal Miskiewicz - drums
References
- ECM Releases accessed October 24, 2016
- Marcin Wasilewski Catalog accessed October 24, 2016
- Marcin Wasilewski Trio discography accessed October 24, 2016
- Fordham, J., The Guardian Review, April 22, 2011
- Kelman, J., All About Jazz Review, accessed October 24, 2016
- Burton, B. JazzTimes Review June 2011