Pawel Kaczmarczyk “a great player who is an indication of just how good the young generation is.”
ALL ABOUT JAZZ
Kaczmarczyk is every inch a perfectionist. Watching him play, it’s impossible not to notice the total seriousness with which he approaches his art, how intensely focused he is on every note. It’s as if, despite the improvisational spirit, nothing happens here randomly.
JAZZSOUL.PL
Kaczmarczyk is, undoubtedly, a brilliant pianist – elegant and sensitive, and, above all, mature well above the level one would expect from a musician of his age. But even more astonishing than his technical brilliance are his compositional skills, which turn him into a fully-fledged jazz personality.
Adam Baruch
Kaczmarczyk has made his debut on one of Europe’s most famous record labels, ACT Music, joining the company of stars like Lars Danielsson, Esbjörn Svensson, Leszek Możdżer and Nils Landgren.
GAZETA WYBORCZA
To hear Kaczmarczyk dig deeply into the keys is to understand what full-bodied, wholly committed jazz pianism is all about.
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
The name Kaczmarczyk is probably soon going to become a definition of virtuosity and creativity in jazz.
MANNHEIMER MORGEN
Paweł Kaczmarczyk
Pianist, composer.
Pawel Kaczmarczyk is for long time now known as one of the elite European pianist. He has been recording his music for number of prestigious record companies such as ACT Music, Fresh Sound Records or Hevhetia and as an author of album named „Complexity In Simplicity” (ACT Music 2009), he became third at the certain time (after Stanko and Wasilewski) polish jazz artist who had chance to record his compositions for such known and respected company. What more, he did it as leader of the band.
For the last two decades, Kaczmarczyk has recorded enormous albums in the number of six, all of them highly rated, that gave him precious musical awards like: the Mateusz statue awarded by Polish Radio Three, six wins in the Jazz Forum magazine’s Jazz Top contest, five “Jazz Oscars” at the ‘Grand Prix Jazz Melomani’ gala, a nomination to the ‘Fryderyk’ award (Poland’s most prestigious music prize), ‘Kulturalne Odloty Gazety Wyborczej’ award given by one of Poland’s top daily paper in the ‘Artist of The Year’ category.
Paweł Kaczmarczyk – piano Alan Wykpisz – double bass Grzegorz Pałka – drums
It would be difficult to characterise his work in terms of genre, as it goes beyond the boundaries of jazz. At the same time, jazz is the genre in which Kaczmarczyk can realise his ideas. His works are characterised by intuition, intimacy, invention and improvisation. If we multiply this by infinity, we will get the key to understanding the compositions and improvisations of this young Polish pianist, who never ceases to amaze with his imaginative and poetic musical excursions. We could analyse them and look for a conflict of new forms – disharmonies, but also harmonic treatments drawing in a highly sophisticated and creative manner from Brahms or Debussy. Or we can simply let ourselves get carried away by the ever-changing stream of music, which the musician creates with incredible lightness.
When we hear Chopin’s poetics of sound, then the powerful bell-like chords in Rachmaninoff’s compositions,a few bars later we are reminded of Paderewski’s works and Bartók’s harmonic treatments, and immediately afterwards of the colourful spaces of the piano impressionists, we probably find ourselves at a concert by the Paweł Kaczmarczyk Trio.
The trio’s concerts are very spontaneous, their work with motifs and free fragments of music brings new aesthetic experiences to the listeners. Whether in unison or in polyphony, through the full chords, dissonant, unexpected endings to pieces, the musicians allow the listeners to immerse themselves in the creative process.
