Marcin Wasilewski Trio - Live (2018) [Hi-res]

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Title: Live
Year Of Release: 2018
Label: ECM
Genre: Jazz
Quality: Mp3 320 kbps / FLAC (tracks) / 24bit-48kHz FLAC (tracks+booklet)
Total Time: 64:15
Total Size: 148 / 349 / 723 MB
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Tracklist:

1. Spark Of Life / Sudovian Dance 12:28
2. Message In A Bottle 10:43
3. Three Reflections 09:13
4. Night Train To You 13:32
5. Austin 07:42
6. Actual Proof 10:36

For years, fans of Poland's Marcin Wasilewski Trio have been asking for a live album. The group made this one "by accident", unaware that their August 2016 performance at Jazz Middelheim in Antwerp had been recorded by the festival.

On listening, they felt that it captured the soul of things rather well, "maybe because there was no awareness of playing to the microphone". Unselfconsciously dynamic and outgoing, the trio draws an enthusiastic response from the audience. "Being out in front of an audience of 4,000 doesn't change your playing or your skills," Wasilewski reflects, "but with a crowd of this size you have to project more energy. You can hear that in this recording."

The trio is certainly in energetic, extroverted mode, fanning the flames of their 'Spark of Life' repertoire and drawing on the deep understanding Marcin Wasilewski, Slawomir Kurkiewicz and Michal Miskiewicz have established in the course of a quarter century of shared musical endeavour. As Jazz Journal has noted, "Wasilewski's music celebrates a vast dynamic range, from the most deftly struck pianistic delicacies to gloriously intense emotional exuberance, the chords pounded with unrestrained joy, yet always within a marvellously melodic concept."

Marcin Wasilewski, piano
Slawomir Kurkiewicz, double bass
Michal Miskiewicz, drums