# 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.

## Early life

Pierończyk was born in Elblag, 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

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

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".

## 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 Kyiv & 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 |