Marcin Wasilewski (musician)

	Marcin Wasilewski at a concert in Krakow 2009
	Chart positions ; Explanation of the data
	Albums
	Live (as Marcin Wasilewski Trio)
	Arctic Riff (as Marcin Wasilewski Trio & Joe Lovano )

Marcin Wasilewski (born November 11, 1975 in Sławno ) is a Polish jazz pianist , band leader and composer .

biography

Wasilewski grew up in Koszalin in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship , where he attended high school; there he met the bassist Sławomir Kurkiewicz at the age of fifteen , with whom he founded a first trio in 1990; In 1993, drummer Michał Miśkiewicz replaced the previous drummer. As the Simple Acoustic Trio , they have won numerous competitions in their home country and in Europe, including the European Jazz Competition at the Leverkusener Jazztage in 1996. Since 1995 the trio has released five albums on Polish labels, initially a tribute album to Komeda . Wasilewski has since worked with this trio of Kurkiewicz and Miśkiewicz, with whom the 2001 album Lyrics with Henryk Miśkiewicz was created, which was awarded a Fryderyk . In the same year the trio took part in the album Soul of Things from his mentor Tomasz Stańko ; the trio toured several times with Stańko and also took part in his subsequent quartet recordings Suspended Night (2003) and Lontano (2005). He and Kurkiewicz also worked with Manu Katché .

In 2004 Wasilewski, Kurkiewicz and Miśkiewicz got the opportunity to start a production for ECM; the resulting album Trio won the quarterly award of the Deutsche Schallplattenkritik and another Fryderyk the following year . Don Deckman wrote about the album in the Los Angeles Times : "Your longstanding collaboration has resulted in an ensemble with a completely symbiotic creative flow."

The band repertoire of the trio is mostly written by Wasilewski; compositions by Keith Jarrett / Gary Peacock (“Vignette”), Carla Bley (“King Korn”) and Paul Bley (“Footloose”) were added to the album January (2008) . In Wasilewski's compositions, connections to the music of Bill Evans , Bobo Stenson , Krzysztof Komeda and Polish film emerge.

The Wasilewski Trio also appeared in the German jazz charts several times, for example in February 2008 with January at number ten. Wasilewski received a Fryderyk for Artist of the Year in 2005, 2009, 2012, 2015 and 2019. The trio received another Fryderik in 2019 for live as "best jazz album of the year."

Discographic notes

Simple Acoustic Trio When Will the Blues Leave (Polonia, 1995)
Simple Acoustic Trio Habanera ( Not Two , 1999)
Simple Acoustic Trio Plays Komeda - Lullaby for Rosemary (Not Two, 2001)
Marcin Wasilewski / Sławomir Kurkiewicz / Michał Miskiewicz Trio (ECM, 2004)
January (ECM, 2008)
Marcin Wasilewski / Sławomir Kurkiewicz / Michał Miskiewicz Faithful (ECM, 2011)
Marcin Wasilewski Trio with Joakim Milder Spark of Life (ECM, 2013)
Marcin Wasilewski Trio Live (ECM, 2018)
Marcin Wasilewski Trio & Joe Lovano Arctic Riff (ECM, 2020)