GRIT ENSEMBLE

This is a debut album by young Polish Jazz septet called Grit Ensemble, led by bassist Patryk Piłasiewicz, with trumpeter Kacper Grzanka, saxophonist Maciej Sokołowski, pianist Krzysztof Dys (Jakub Królikowski on one track), vibraphonist Piotr Rakowski, guitarist Piotr Scholz and drummer Andrzej Konieczny. As the title suggests, the music played on this album was composed entirely by the Godfather of Polish Jazz, pianist/composer Krzysztof Komeda and includes compositions which were originally written as film scores, Komeda's most famous contribution to Polish Culture, beyond the strict Jazz milieu. The album presents nine tracks, seven of which are the ensemble's interpretations of Komeda's compositions and the additional two are remixes of two of the tracks. Any attempt to deal with Komeda's music is a priori a perilous enterprise for numerous reasons, the most obvious one being that it has been attempted previously on hundreds of albums by thousands of Polish and foreign musicians, read more...