Thursday, September 20, 2018

Marcin Wasilewski Trio - Live (ECM 2018)


For years, fans of Poland’s Marcin Wasilewski Trio have been asking for a live album. Here it is. Recorded at the Jazz Middelheim Festival in Antwerp, Belgium, in August 2016, it captures the trio in energetic, extroverted mode, fanning the flames of their Spark of Life repertoire and drawing on the deep understanding Marcin Wasilewski, Slawomir Kurkiewicz and Michal Miskiewicz have established in the course of a quarter century of shared musical endeavour. As UK magazine Jazz Journal has noted, “Wasilewski’s music celebrates a vast dynamic range, from the most deftly struck pianistic delicacies to gloriously intense emotional exuberance, the chords pounded with unrestrained joy, yet always within a marvellously melodic concept.”


Marcin Wasilewski, Piano
Slawomir Kurkiewicz, Double Bass
Michal Miskiewicz, Drums

1 SPARK OF LIFE / SUDOVIAN DANCE (Marcin Wasilewski) 12:29
2 MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE (Sting – G.M. Sumner) 10:43
3 THREE REFLECTIONS (Marcin Wasilewski) 09:13
4 NIGHT TRAIN TO YOU (Marcin Wasilewski) 13:32
5 AUSTIN (Marcin Wasilewski) 07:42
6 ACTUAL PROOF (Herbie Hancock) 10:40