POLISH SAXOPHONIST: tenor/soprano/alto/zoucra (b. 24/01/1970 Elblag)
As a leader and member of numerous groups and projects Pieronczyk:
- won the top position in the annual "Jazz Forum" magazine ranking as
New Hope Of Polish Jazz (1997),
- was nominated for the Polish Music Award "Fryderyk" as
Best Jazz Artist Of The Year (1997,1998),
- has been given the prize of the Musician Union in Poland as
Best Artist Of The Year (1999),
- was voted in the main Polish daily newspaper "Gazeta Wyborcza"
one of the most influential jazz musicians in Poland
("Five main jazz musicians for the XXI century in Poland" / 2000),
- has been given the jazzfestival prize of Bielsko-Biala
Angel Of Jazz (2003),
- won the top position in the annual Jazz Forum magazine ranking as
Best Soprano Saxophonist Of The Year (from 2003 to 2009),
- was nominated for the Polish Music Award "Fryderyk 2009" as
Best Jazz Artist Of The Year (2009).
Pieronczyk's records have been also noticed as remarkable productions:
- “Digivooco” (Adam Pieronczyk Digivooco feat. Gary Thomas)
was voted in the jazz forum magazine ranking
Album of the Year (2001),
- "Few Minutes In The Space" ( Adam Pieronczyk Trio )
was nominated for the Polish Music Award "Fryderyk" as
Best Jazz CD Of The Year (1997),
- "Live In Sofia" ( Duo with Polish piano player Leszek Mozdzer )
was voted in the "Jazz Forum" magazine ranking
Album of The Year (1998) and nominated for the Polish Music Award
"Fryderyk" as Best Jazz CD Of The Year (1998).
Adam Pieronczyk has played with:
Gary Thomas, Greg Osby, Sam Rivers, Archie Shepp, Bobby McFerrin, Tomasz Stanko, Ted Curson, Anthony Cox, Joey Calderazzo, Ed Schuller, Herb Robertson, Eddie Henderson, Wayne Dockery, John Betsch, Newman Taylor Baker, Jeff Williams, John Hollenbeck, Lars Danielsson, Adrian Mears, Majid Bekkas, Kris Defoort, Fabrizio Cassol, Mircea Tiberian, Gunnar Geisse, Wolfgang Puschnig, Andy Manndorff, Wolfgang Reisinger, Paul Urbanek, Frank Moebus, Johannes Enders, Henning Sieverts, Daniel Schroeteler, Juergen Wuchner, Manfred Bruendl, Uwe Oberg, Axel Doerner, Vitold Rek, Janusz Stefanski, Vladislav Sendecki, Tony Lakatos, Ferenc Snetberger, Leszek Mozdzer, Piotr Wojtasik, Krzysztof Knittel, Marek Choloniewski, Tadeusz Sudnik, Agata Zubel, and many others.
****************** PRESS REVIEWS ******************
Adam Pieronczyk is Poland's most interesting saxophonist today.
(Gazeta Wyborcza)
This 33-year-old saxophonist is one of the jazzmen currently defining
the shape of Polish jazz in the 21st Century
(Newsweek)
Pieronczyk is an outstanding Polish jazz artist who is reaching a
progressively wider circle of jazz fans.
(Audio)
Adam Pieronczyk is a discovery, for he has a lovely warm tone and a clever
imagination, but he can also blow for the borders.
(Cadence NY)
Adam Pieronczyk is among the very finest of the Polish jazz scene.
He is successful like few others in combining instrumental virtuosity,
precision, and intellectual refinement with an emotionality that borders
on exhibitionism. He burns in his improvisations, and the listener burns
with him.
(Gazeta Wyborcza)
new hope of Polish jazz;
(Berliner Morgenpost)
Pieronczyk's work brings a new quality to Polish jazz.
(HiFi)
It's difficult to categorize Pieronczyk, or to compare him with anybody.
This is a great musician.
(Jazz Forum)
For several years now, Adam Pieronczyk has been among
the most important and creative artists on the Polish jazz scene;
(Gazeta Wyborcza)
ray of hope on the East European jazz scene;
(Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)
Adam Pieronczyk is the brightest point of jazz saxophone in Poland;
(HiFi)
Pieronczyk's music is virtuosic, thought out, refined, and yet not
calculated and cold. His improvisations carry a powerful dose of intensity,
yet are profound and charged with emotional fire.
(Gazeta Wyborcza)
Adam Pieronczyk is a technically brilliant, spirited saxophone player
- even a little "cooler" than some of the masters of this instrument.
(Frankfurter Allgemeine)
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