Maciej Obara

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Maciej Obara (2020)
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Maciej Obara (born December 18, 1981 ) is a Polish jazz musician ( alto and tenor saxophone , composition) and band leader . He "impresses with his irrepressible pleasure in narrative and longing play."

Live and act

Obara worked from the mid-2000s a. a. with Marek Kądziela's formation ADHD (with Kasper Tom Christiansen , Piotr Damasiewicz , Rudi Mahall ) and the band Power of the Horns , he also recorded several projects of his own, initially with his own trio, the album Message from Ohayo (2007, with Krzysztof Gradziuk , Maciej Garbowski ). The program documented there won the 2006 Bielska Zadymka jazz competition for young jazz bands and led to its international breakthrough. In 2008 he toured Poland with Antoine Roney . Manfred Eicher noticed him and recommended him to Tomasz Stańko , with whom he worked in the Tomasz Stańko Special Project and in the New Balladyna Quartet . In the following years he continued to record with his own projects, another trio with John Lindberg and Harvey Sorgen ( Three , 2010), his quartet ( Equlilibrium , 2011, with Dominik Wania , Krzysztof Gradziuk, Maciej Garbowski) and the Obara International (Quartet) (with Dominik Wania, Gard Nilssen , Ole Morten Vågan , Tom Arthurs ), with whom he has appeared internationally at numerous festivals since 2013 and has released several albums, including a production with compositions by Krzysztof Komeda . Like other Polish jazz musicians before him, he also interpreted themes by Henryk Górecki (on his album Three Crowns , 2019) . He was also involved in recordings by Michael Jefry Stevens / Joe Fonda .

Prizes and awards

With his international quartet, Obara won the BMW Welt Jazz Award in 2019 . The jury was thrilled “by the enormous amplitude of the emotion, the dynamism and the possibilities of expression with which Maciej Obara and his quartet surprised. The weightlessness of his tone, the power of his compositions and the spontaneity of his band improvisations, which range from filigree lyric to unleashed power, were equally fascinating. "

Discographic notes

  • The Fonda / Stevens Group Trio + 2: Live in Katowice (Not Two, 2009), with Ireneusz Wojtczak , Michael Jefry Stevens, Joe Fonda, Michael Zerang , Harvey Sorge
  • Obara Special Quartet: Four (Ars Cameralis Silesiae Superiors, 2010), with Mark Helias , Nasheet Waits , Ralph Alessi
  • Maciej Obara: Three (Ars Cameralis, 2010), with John Lindberg, Harvey worries
  • Obara International: Live at Manggha (For Tune, 2013)
  • Obara International: Komeda (For Tune, 2013)
  • Obara International: Live in Mińsk Mazowiecki (For Tune, 2015)
  • Maciej Obara Quartet: Unloved (ECM, 2017)
  • Maciej Obara Quartet: Three Crowns (2019)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bert Noglik : The Polish saxophonist Maciej Obara. NDR Info, June 26, 2020, accessed on July 28, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed May 1, 2016)
  3. ↑ Maciej Obara Quartet wins the BMW Welt Jazz Award 2019
personal data
SURNAME Obara, Maciej
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH 18th December 1981