Marcin Kydryński

YOUNG POWER - NEW EDITION - FREEDOM CELEBRATION feat. Urszula Dudziak, Michał Urbaniak, Kuba Badach, Marcin Wyrostek

The musical collective Young Power, led by Krzysztof Popek and Krzysztof Zawadzki, was one of the most important phenomena in young Polish jazz of the mid-1980s, attracting and nurturing the top of the jazz and rock scenes of the time, from Piotr Wojtasik and Ziut Gralak to Jerzy Piotrowski.The formation also recorded with Tomasz Stanko and Michal Urbaniak.In the spring of 1986, the Young Power big-band burst onto the stage of the “Jazz nad Odrą” Festival with the impetus of youth, generating enthusiasm not only from the audience, but also from critics. They sealed their success with an outstanding performance at the Jazz Jamboree in the fall, shortly after recording their first album.The band, which was never formally disbanded, returns to the NOSPR in a new, refreshed format: "Young Power New Edition". The 15-member ensemble is now half members of the former lineup and half young blood, ambitious artists. They are creating a generational, forward-looking change in Young Power's open art project, in keeping with its irrepressible spirit.It should be mentioned that in addition to former members such as Krzysztof Popek, Jorgos Skolias, Marcin Pospieszalski, Wlodek Kiniorski, the most talented musicians from the youngest jazz generation - Dawid Główczewski, Cyprian Baszynski, Adam Lemańczyk, Pawel Dobrowolski - are just a huge enrichment to this group.In the "Freedom Celebration" program, in addition to old compositions, we will also find new suites, characteristic of the band's sound, and therefore free jazz with elements of rock at its best.Kindly welcome to NOSPR for the Young Power project with special guests: Urszula Dudziak, Michał Urbaniak, Kuba Badach, and Marcin Wyrostek.

AUKSO x Marcin Masecki

We won't judge – going to this concert, do you want to listen to Mozart or Masecki more? Marcin Masecki is well-known to audiences of many musical genres. He owes his popularity to such projects as Jazz Band Młynarski-Masecki or his collaboration with the majority of artists on the Polish jazz and pop scene, including Tomasz Stańko, Michał Urbaniak, Wojciech Waglewski, or Reni Jusis. The artist regularly surprises audiences with further experiments that are head-turning for some and a delight for others. At a recent concert for the Polish Radio Orchestra's season finale, Masecki was to perform Beethoven's Fifth Piano Concerto. Asked just before he went on stage whether he intended to play 'normally or his way', he replied that this remains to be seen. Is there a place for jazz improvisations in Mozart concertos? Will Marcin Masecki make another joke this time and, to everyone's surprise, play by the book? Looking only at the event programme, it is not entirely clear what to expect. This is a concert you have to attend! Szymon MaliszewskiConcert duration: approximately 80 minutes

Marcin Wasilewski Trio & Athina Kontou »Mother«

One special quality of jazz is the spontaneous interplay between personalities who are on an equal footing. If the different players blend with each other musically as they do in the Marcin Wasilewski Trio, it’s almost as if they were flying together. The trio composed of Marcin Wasilewski, Slawomir Kurkewicz and Michail Miskiewicz began its international career in 2004 at the side of trumpeter Tomasz Stanko, so that they are now celebrating 30 years as a jazz trio at this NDR concert. After the interval, Greek bass player Athina Kontou appears as part of the quintet »Mother«. The title song of Athina Kontou’s album »Tzivaeri« could hardly be more relevant to our times. In this traditional lament from the Aegean, a mother thinks of her child that she sent out of the country to make sure it had a better life. The Greek word »tzivaeri« means jewel, and has its roots in the Turkish, Arabic and Persian languages. And Athina Kontou doesn’t only support international understanding in linguistic terms: the bass player, who studied jazz in Leipzig and Weimar, forges musical links with her band »Mother«. Her acclaimed debut album features Turkish and Thracian folk dances as well as the »Greek blues« known as rembetiko. Jazz is present in any case in the sound of the prepared piano played by Lucas Leidinger, in Dominik Mahnig’s sensitive drum sound and in the different saxophones played by Luise Volkmann. Master lutenist Koray Berat Sari makes Mother into a quintet with music full of deep melancholy as well as jubilant joie de vivre. German weekly paper Die Zeit described »Tziveari« enthusiastically as »effervescent, gleaming, thrilling«.

Marcin Wasilewski Trio & Athina Kontou »Mother«

One special quality of jazz is the spontaneous interplay between personalities who are on an equal footing. If the different players blend with each other musically as they do in the Marcin Wasilewski Trio, it’s almost as if they were flying together. The trio composed of Marcin Wasilewski, Slawomir Kurkewicz and Michail Miskiewicz began its international career in 2004 at the side of trumpeter Tomasz Stanko, so that they are now celebrating 30 years as a jazz trio at this NDR concert. After the interval, Greek bass player Athina Kontou appears as part of the quintet »Mother«. The title song of Athina Kontou’s album »Tzivaeri« could hardly be more relevant to our times. In this traditional lament from the Aegean, a mother thinks of her child that she sent out of the country to make sure it had a better life. The Greek word »tzivaeri« means jewel, and has its roots in the Turkish, Arabic and Persian languages. And Athina Kontou doesn’t only support international understanding in linguistic terms: the bass player, who studied jazz in Leipzig and Weimar, forges musical links with her band »Mother«. Her acclaimed debut album features Turkish and Thracian folk dances as well as the »Greek blues« known as rembetiko. Jazz is present in any case in the sound of the prepared piano played by Lucas Leidinger, in Dominik Mahnig’s sensitive drum sound and in the different saxophones played by Luise Volkmann. Master lutenist Koray Berat Sari makes Mother into a quintet with music full of deep melancholy as well as jubilant joie de vivre. German weekly paper Die Zeit described »Tziveari« enthusiastically as »effervescent, gleaming, thrilling«.

JazzKLUB / Marcin Masecki Trio / Thelonious Monk’s New Incarnation

„He’s got time!” is what Tomasz Stańko used to say about Thelonious Monk, but he could just as well say the same about Marcin Masecki. „He has time” – meaning that he is its master, stretching it or condensing it, with disregard for any rules whatsoever, except those he created himself. Monk felt the basic dimension of reality and expressed it in his music unlike anyone else – so it is with Masecki. The artistic kinship between the two artists is striking, with their special sense for timing enhanced by the propensity for dissonance, so characteristic for both. They could not meet – Monk passed away in February of 1982 and Masecki was born in September the same year. In the concert, however, the Polish pianist is going to converse with his American predecessor. And there is so much they have to say to one another. Tomasz Gregorczyk Concert duration: approximately 90 minutes

Wojtek Mazolewski Quintet

Roberto Fonseca

Roberto Fonseca is a Cuban pianist, vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer and bandleader. Havana-born, he has released many solo albums, collaborated across genres, been nominated for a Grammy Award and toured the world several times over. An artist of prowess and ideas, with a questing jazz sensibility and deep roots in the Afro-Cuban tradition, Fonseca continues to astound. ‘The most exciting pianist in Cuba,” avowed Britain’s Guardian newspaper. “Does something new with the old, without ever denying its origins, and opens himself to the world,” insisted France’s Le Figaro. “Makes all possibilities seem possible, and the moment feel perfect, intensely true,” declared the New York Times. Fonseca grew up in San Miguel del Padrón in the unassuming Barrio Obrero on the southeastern outskirts of Havana. His father, Roberto Fonseca Senior, played the drums. His mother, Mercedes Cortes Alfaro, was a dancer at the legendary Tropicana Club and is renowned within Cuba as a singer of boleros. He has been composing his own music since adolescence. His technique is as percussive and muscular as it is agile and delicate. His tastes were always eclectic: hard rock, for its energy and basslines. American jazz, taught at school, consumed in between, with Herbie Hancock, Keith Jarrett and Oscar Peterson on rotation. Funk and soul. Music made in Africa and Brazil. Reggaeton, electronica, hip-hop. Classical music: “Mozart, Chopin, Beethoven, Rachmaninov, Scriabin, Grieg, Bartok,” says Fonseca. And always, the music of Cuba – that vibrant, tenacious, creatively fecund Caribbean island. Fonseca’s deep AfroCuban roots underpin a sound that builds bridges between ancient and modern and takes Cuban music – all music – forward, embracing challenges, breaking chains, showing what can be. Inspiring young musicians in Cuba, for whom Fonseca’s cross-genre adventures and international success are a benchmark. The international spotlight shone bright in 2001 when Fonseca joined that famed ensemble of elderly maestros, the Buena Vista Social Club, taking over the piano chair from the ailing Ruben Gonzalez (1919 – 2003) then touring the globe with singer Ibrahim Ferrer (1927 – 2005) then with BVSC alumni including diva Omara Portuondo. He has also played and cooperated with Raul Midon, Mayra Andrade and Fatoumata Diawara.Tastemakers eyed him, recognising the potential in his playing smarts and bright ideas, his intrinsic Cubanness and ineffable sense of cool. The concert at the NOSPR is a must-see event for all world music lovers. An unforgettable journey through the Latin world, in the pulse of Buena Vista with various influences from other genres.

Możdżer Danielsson Fresco BEAMO

The Możdżer Danielsson Fresco trio is back with their new album “Beamo”. This news have electrified the fans. The new album contains everything that has worked perfectly so far and for what the audience loves this band - space, beautiful melodies, noble reticence, but in fact, the trio has opened a completely new chapter with this recording as they present completely new, revolutionary content in a gentle and accessible way. What we deal with here is tonality bending by use of three different types of tuning. The tone is set by Leszek Możdżer's three simultaneously used grand pianos (A = 440 Hz, A = 432 Hz, and a decaphonic tuning), which imposes innovative aesthetics this way, but Lars Danielsson finds himself excellently in this new sound environment and weaves around distinct tonalities in a master manner, combining them into a single unit with the powerful sound of his double bass. Quitting the tonal temperament system seems to open up new areas for Danielsson in which hecan activate his imagination and implement completely new ideas. Zohar Fresco, being at his peak, gives the whole a powerful pulsation in which meticulously and finely implemented rhythmic details glisten. They are, in fact, a world of their own which deserves a separate analysis. This album dazzles, surprises, makes one wonder, and opens up a completely new sound space. The whole thing sounds mysteriously and intriguing, but very familiar at the same time. Nothing like this has ever been in music before.TICKETSConcert duration: approximately 70 minutes

The Dumplings Orchestra

SKALPEL BAND