Sunday, June 1, 2014

Adam Baldych - The New Tradition (ACT 2014)

"Without doubt the greatest jazz violinist alive today. We can expect everything from him," is what the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper wrote about Adam Bałdych's ACT debut "Imaginary Room". The young Pole is causing quite a stir on the European jazz scene with his music. In Germany he won the ECHO Jazz in 2013. In his homeland he is treading in the massive footsteps of Leszek Możdżer, and the top echelons of European jazz, the likes of Iiro Rantala, appreciate his skills, currently in his string trio. Musikmarkt calls Bałdych a "diabolically divine violinist" and the Süddeutsche Zeitung considers him "one of the biggest discoveries of contemporary European jazz".The Paris-based Israeli pianist Yaron Herman has long been at the spearhead of European jazz, and he is "one of the most...
line up Adam Bałdych / violin
Yaron Herman / piano

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