Adam Pierończyk
Illustration — Pierończyk in 2011 Adam Pierończyk (born 24 January 1970) is a Polish jazz saxophonist and composer. He plays tenor and soprano saxophones, as well as the zoucra.
Adam Pierończyk

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- Born
- 1970. · Elbląg.
- Nationality
- Poland.
- Occupation
- saxophonist, composer and musician.
- Fields
- jazz.
- Languages
- Polish.
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Adam Pierończyk nacque il 24 gennaio 1970.
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Early life
Early life
Pierończyk was born in Elbląg, Poland, on 24 January 1970. He learned the piano for three years from the age of eight, and later switched to saxophone. After moving with his parents to Germany, he "enrolled in the jazz department at the Higher Music School".
Later life and career
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. His tribute to pianist/composer Krzysztof Komeda, Komeda: The Innocent Sorcerer, was released in 2010. His Adam Pierończyk Quartet, from around the same time, was based on saxophone and trombone, without chordal instruments.
Playing style
Playing style
The Jazz Book by Joachim-Ernst Berendt describes Pierończyk as an "emotionally enormously powerful stylist [...] whose playing is deeply founded in the great black tenor [saxophone] tradition". 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".
Life and career
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Life and career
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1970
Adam Pierończyk was born on 24 January 1970.
Discography
As leader/co-leader • Title / co-leader — Recorded — Label — Released — Notes • Temathe - Water Conversations — 1995–10 — TEMATHE / Germany — 1996–01 — In Saarbrücken, Germany with Jan Oestreich, Christian Fischer • Anniversary Concert for Hestia — 1996–06 — DUX & Hestia / Poland — 1996–08 — Duet with Leszek Możdżer. Live. • Few Minutes in the Space — 1997–02 — GOWI Records / Poland (CDG 43) — 1997–05 — In Kraków, Poland. Trio with Adam Kowalewski, Jacek Olter, Zbigniew Namyslowski • Live in Sofia /with Leszek Możdżer — 1998? — NOT TWO / Poland (MW 701-2) — 1998–05 — Live in Sofia, Bulgaria • Plastinated Black Sheep — 1999–03 — NOT TWO & HiFi / Poland (MW 710-2) — 1999–06 — with Ed Schuler, Jacek Kochan • 19-9-1999 /with Leszek Możdżer — 1999–09 — Polish Institute in Kyiv & J.R.C. Jazz / Ukraine — 2000–04 — In Ukraine • Adam Pierończyk Digivoco /feat. Gary Thomas — 2000–11 — PAO Records / Austria (PAO 10230) — 2001–06 — in Freiling, Austria /with Gary Thomas, Gunnar Geisse, Maurice de Martin, Tadeusz Sunday • Plastiline Black Sheep as Plastiline Black Sheep — 2001–05 — Meta Records / Germany (Meta 012) — 2001–09 — In Berlin with Johannes Fink, Maurice de Martin • Amusos — 2002–09 — PAO Records / Austria (PAO 10900) — 2003–10 — In Berlin with Mina Agossi, Henning Sieverts, Adam Kowalewski, Tadeusz Sudnik, Daniel Schroeteler • Busem Po São Paulo — 2005–07 — META Records / Germany — 2006–05 — In São Paulo, Brazil. Trio with Krzysztof Dziedzic, Robert Kubiszyn, Guello, Anna Serafinska. • Live in Berlin — 2005–11 — META Records / Germany — 2007–01 — Live in Berlin. Trio with Ed Schuller, Krzysztof Dziedzic. • Live at A38 — 2007–07 — SP Records, Poland (SPDVD 01/08) — 2008–08 — [DVD-Video] Live in Budapest, Hungary. Trio with Andrzej Swies, Krzysztof Dziedzic. • El Buscador — 2008–01 — JazzWerkstatt Berlin / Germany (JW 064) — 2010–01 — In Gdansk, Poland. Quartet with Adrian Mears, Anthony Cox, Krzysztof Dziedzic. • A-Trane Nights — 2008–01 — For Tune / Poland (0040(028)) — 2014–10 — Live in Berlin, Germany. Quartet with Adrian Mears, Anthony Cox, Krzysztof Dziedzic. • Komeda – The Innocent Sorcerer — 2009–11 — JazzWerkstatt Berlin /Germany (JW 104) — 2010–11 — In Warsaw, Poland with Gary Thomas, Nelson Veras, Anthony Cox, Lukasz Zyta • Gajcy Szyc Pierończyk /with Borys Szyc — 2009–12 — Muzeum Powstania Warszawskiego — 2010–03 — Poetry by Tadeusz Gajcy. In Niepolomice, Poland. • The Planet of Eternal Life — 2013–06 — JazzWerkstatt Berlin / Germany (JW 149) — 2013–11 — In Peitz, Germany. solo soprano saxophone album. • Migratory Poets /feat. Anthony Joseph — 2014–11 — For Tune / Poland (0061(039)) — 2015–04 — In Katowice, Poland with Anthony Joseph, Nelson Veras, Robert Kubiszyn, John B. Arnold • Wings /with Miroslav Vitous — 2015–08, 2015–09 — For Tune / Poland (0084(054)) — 2015–11 — In Gdansk, Poland • Monte Albán — 2016–03 — Jazz Sound / Poland (JS020) — 2016–10 — In Mexico with Robert Kubiszyn, Hernan Hecht • Live at NOSPR /with Miroslav Vitous — 2016–03 — Jazz Sound / Poland (JS021) — 2019–11 — Live in Katowice, Poland • Ad-lib Orbits /with Miroslav Vitous — 2016–07 — PAO Records / Austria (PAO11320) — 2017–06 — In Prague, Czech Republic
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- 1.Romański, Marek. Adam Pierończyk. culture.pl. 2009.
- 2.Garratt, John. Adam Pieronczyk: Komeda – The Innocent Sorcerer. popmatters.com. 29 March 2011.
- 3.Greenland, Tom. Adam Pieronczyk Quartet (Jazzwerkstatt). All About Jazz: New York. 102. 18. October 2010.
- 4.Berendt, Joachim-Ernst. The Jazz Book: From Ragtime to the 21st Century. Lawrence Hill. 331. 2009. 978-1-55652-820-0.
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