Helmut Nadolski

Helmut Nadolski (born October 27, 1942 in Gdynia ) is a Polish jazz and improvisation musician ( double bass , composition ) who is known as the “magician of the double bass” and who created “dark, enigmatic sounds”.

Live and act

Nadolski was a member of Andrzej Przybielski's quartet ( JJ 69 - New Faces In Polish Jazz , 1969). Together with Przybielski, Władysław Jagiełło and Andrzej Bieżan he explored experimental jazz in the group Sesja 72 ; the band presented themselves in 1973 at the Jazz Jamboree . In addition, he has been a member of Czesław Niemen's band since 1972 , with whom he also appeared at the 1972 Jazz Jamboree and in the Rock and Jazz Now concert in the accompanying program to the 1972 Munich Olympics (TV recording); he played the bass on the Niemen albums Strange Is This World (1972) and Marionetki (1973) (for the second album he also contributed the composition Requiem dla van Gogha ). Niemen also used the synthesizers on Nadolski's debut album Meditation ; its planned international edition as an ESP album under the title New Music from Poland did not materialize at first. At the Jazz Jamboree 1983 he gathered other improvisation artists in his Jubileuszowa Orkiestra .

Nadolski has lived in Bremen since the late 1980s . In the 1990s he developed an interdisciplinary concert form, mobile , in which he combined music, images, texts and meditation. He performed with pianist Michael Rayher at the Nürtingen Jazz Days 1996 as well as at the Long Night of the Museums in 2001 in the Gerhard-Marcks-Haus . With the actress Minnie Oehl he introduced the life of the sculptor Camille Claudel .

Nadolski also wrote the score for the feature film Rekolekcje by Witold Leszczyński (1978) and for the television film Mała sprawa . As an actor, he appeared in the 1982 television series Hotel Polan and its guests .

Discographic notes

• Iga Cembrzyńska Session 72 - Four Dialogues with Conscience (Apollo Sound, 1972; with Andrzej Przybielski, Władysław Jagiełło, Andrzej Bieżan)
• Meditation / Medytacje (Veriton, 1974; with Czesław Niemen, Olgierd Łukaszewicz , Andrzej Nowak )
• Jubileuszowa Orkiestra (Alma Art, 1983; with Andrzej Bieżan, Tadeusz Sudnik , Andrzej Przybielski, Zdzisław Piernik , Michał Zduniak , Krzysztof Knittel )
• Muzyka Morza (2010, with Michael Rayher)
• Kiedy Umiera Człowiek (2012, with Ulf Langheinrich)

Web links

• Web presence
• Portrait in Jazz Forum (Polish)
• Helmut Nadolski at Discogs (English)
• Entry at filmweb.pl

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Alicja Dylewska Helmut Nadolski - Muzyka Morza (2010); Kiedy Umiera Człowiek (2012)
2. ↑ ^{a b} "Jazzwelten die Vierte" - Interview with the program director Mathias Bäumel (2008)
3. ↑ Niemen Kattorna / Pamflet na Ludzkosc (baby blue pages)
4. ^ ESP discography
5. ↑ Bremer Geist: Kunstfertige Krach-Romantik (concert review) ( Memento of the original from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ The moon shines for museum fans too Die Welt , June 18, 2001
7. ↑ Helmut Nadolski in the Internet Movie Database (English)