Adam Pierończyk

Adam Pierończyk (born 24 January 1970) is a Polish jazz saxophonist and composer. He plays tenor and soprano saxophones, as well as the zoucra.[1]

Early life

Pierończyk was born in Elblag, Poland, on 24 January 1970.[1] He learned the piano for three years from the age of eight, and later switched to saxophone.[1] After moving with his parents to Germany, he "enrolled in the jazz department at the Higher Music School".[1]

Later life and career

Pierończyk has won awards from the Polish magazine Jazz Forum: New Hope of Polish Jazz in 1997, and the readers' choice as Best Soprano Saxophonist in 2003 and 2004.[1] His tribute to Krzysztof Komeda, Komeda: The Innocent Sorcerer, was released in 2010.[2] His Adam Pierończyk Quartet, from around the same time, was based on saxophone and trombone, without chordal instruments.[3]

Playing style

The Jazz Book describes Pierończyk as an "emotionally enormously powerful stylist [...] whose playing is deeply founded in the great black tenor [saxophone] tradition".[4] His playing on Adam Pierończyk Quartet was described by a New York City Jazz Record reviewer as: "folk-futurist along the lines of Ornette Coleman, [...with] nursery-rhyme melodies that seem to change key every few bars, stringing together fragmented phrases".[3]

Discography

Title	Recorded	Released	Label	Notes
Temathe - Water Conversations	10/1995 Saarbrücken, Germany	01/1996	TEMATHE / Germany	with Jan Oestreich, Christian Fischer
Plastinated Black Sheep	03/1999	06/1999	NOT TWO & HiFi / Poland MW 710-2	with Ed Schuler, Jacek Kochan
Plastiline Black Sheep	05/2001 Berlin	09/2001	Meta Records / Germany (Meta 012)	with Johannes Fink, Maurice de Martin
Anniversary Concert for Hestia	06/1996	08/1996	DUX & Hestia / Poland	Duet with Leszek Mozdzer
Leszek Mozdzer/Adam Pierończyk "19-9-1999"	09/1999 Ukraine	04/2000	Polish Institute in Kiev & J.R.C. Jazz / Ukraine
Leszek Mozdzer /Adam Pierończyk "19-9-1999"	09/1999 Ukraine	09/2003	GOWI Records / Poland (CDG 57)
Leszek Mozdzer/Adam Pierończyk Live in Sofia	13/1997 Sofia, Bulgaria	05/1998	NOT TWO / Poland (MW 701-2)
Adam Pierończyk Trio - Few Minutes in the Space	02/1997 Kraków, Poland	05/1997	GOWI Records / Poland (CDG 43)	with Adam Kowalewski, Jacek Olter, Zbigniew Namyslowski
Adam Pierończyk Digivoco feat. Gary Thomas	11/2000 Freiling, Austria	06/2001	PAO RECORDS / Austria (PAO 10230)	with Gary Thomas, Gunnar Geisse, Maurice de Martin, Tadeusz Sunday
Amusos	09/2002 Berlin	10/2003	PAO RECORDS / Austria (PAO 10900)	with Mina Agossi, Henning Sieverts, Adam Kowalewski, Tadeusz Sudnik, Daniel Schroeteler
Adam Pierończyk Trio - Busem po São Paulo	07/2005, São Paulo, Brazil	05/2006	META Records / Germany	with Krzysztof Dziedzic, Robert Kubiszyn, Guello, Anna Serafinska
Adam Pierończyk Trio - Live in Berlin	11/2005, Berlin	01/2007	META Records / Germany	with Ed Schuller, Krzysztof Dziedzic
Adam Pierończyk Trio - Live at A38 DVD	03/2007, Budapest, Hungary	08/2008	SP Records, Poland (SPDVD 01/08)	with Andrzej Swies, Krzysztof Dziedzic
Adam Pierończyk Quartet - El Buscador	01/2008, Gdansk, Poland	01/2010	JazzWerkstatt Berlin / Germany (JW 064)	with Adrian Mears, Anthony Cox, Krzysztof Dziedzic
Borys Szyc / Adam Pierończyk - Gajcy	12/2009 Niepolomice, Poland	03/2010	Muzeum Powstania Warszawskiego
Adam Pierończyk - Komeda - The Innocent Sorcerer	11/2009, Warsaw, Poland	11/2010	JazzWerkstatt Berlin /Germany (JW 104)	with Gary Thomas, Nelson Veras, Anthony Cox, Lukasz Zyta
Adam Pierończyk - The Planet of Eternal Life	06/2013 Peitz, Germany	11/2013	JazzWerkstatt Berlin / Germany (JW 149)	solo soprano saxophone album
Adam Pierończyk Quartet - A-Trane Nights	01/2008 Berlin, Germany	10/2014	For Tune / Poland 0040(028)	LIVE with Adrian Mears, Anthony Cox, Krzysztof Dziedzic
Adam Pierończyk Migratory Poets, feat. Anthony Joseph	11/2014 Katowice, Poland	04/2015	For Tune / Poland 0061(039)	with Anthony Joseph, Nelson Veras, Robert Kubiszyn, John B. Arnold
Adam Pierończyk / Miroslav Vitous - Wings	31/08 -01/09/2015 Gdansk, Poland	11/2015	For Tune / Poland 0084(054)	Adam Pierończyk - soprano and tenor saxophones zoucra, Miroslav Vitous - double bass
Adam Pierończyk - Monte Albán	03/2016 Mexico	10/2016	Jazz Sound / Poland JS020	with Robert Kubiszyn, Hernan Hecht
Adam Pierończyk / Miroslav Vitous - Ad-lib Orbits	July 2016 Prague, CZ	06/2017	PAO Records / Austria PAO11320	Adam Pierończyk - soprano and tenor saxophones zoucra, Miroslav Vitous - double bass
Adam Pierończyk / Miroslav Vitous - Live at NOSPR	March 2016 Katowice, PL	11/2019	Jazz Sound / Poland JS021	Adam Pierończyk - soprano and tenor saxophones zoucra, Miroslav Vitous - double bass

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References

Romański, Marek (2009). "Adam Pierończyk". culture.pl. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
Garratt, John (29 March 2011). "Adam Pieronczyk: Komeda – The Innocent Sorcerer". popmatters.com. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
Greenland, Tom (October 2010). "Adam Pieronczyk Quartet (Jazzwerkstatt)". All About Jazz: New York. No. 102. p. 18.
Berendt, Joachim-Ernst; Huesmann, Günther (2009). The Jazz Book: From Ragtime to the 21st Century (7th ed.). Lawrence Hill. p. 331. ISBN 978-1-55652-820-0.

External links

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[culture-1] Romański, Marek (2009). "Adam Pierończyk". culture.pl. Retrieved 23 May 2020.

[2] Garratt, John (29 March 2011). "Adam Pieronczyk: Komeda – The Innocent Sorcerer". popmatters.com. Retrieved 23 May 2020.

[AAJ-3] Greenland, Tom (October 2010). "Adam Pieronczyk Quartet (Jazzwerkstatt)". All About Jazz: New York. No. 102. p. 18.

[Berendt-4] Berendt, Joachim-Ernst; Huesmann, Günther (2009). The Jazz Book: From Ragtime to the 21st Century (7th ed.). Lawrence Hill. p. 331. ISBN 978-1-55652-820-0.