Oleś Brothers & Piotr Orzechowski - Waterfall (2020)

Oleś Brothers & Piotr Orzechowski
Waterfall: Music of Joe Zawinul
2020 - Audio Cave: ACD-011-2020 (CD) / ACV-004-2020 (2 LPs)
https://sklep.audiocave.pl/katalog-audio-cave/299-ole%C5%9B-brothers-piotr-orzechowski-waterfall-5908298549094.html
http://olesbrothers.pl/audio/oles-brothers-piotr-orzechowski-waterfall/
https://olebrothers.bandcamp.com/album/ole-brothers-piotr-orzechowski-waterfall-music-of-joe-zawinul



* Piotr Orzechowski : piano
* Marcin Oleś : double bass
* Bartłomiej Oleś : drums

https://www.pianohooligan.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piotr_Orzechowski
http://www.marcinoles.com/
https://culture.pl/pl/tworca/bartlomiej-oles
http://www.olesbrothers.pl/

Recorded by Michał Kupicz at Studio S2 Polish Radio,
Warsaw, Poland, on April 28-29 2019.

Reviews

By Derek
http://cosmicjazz.co.uk/?p=11562

The Oles Brothers from Poland have been performing for over twenty years with
Marcin on double bass and Bartlomiej on drums. They are joined on this record
by young pianist Piotr Orzechowski. This is an original take on the early
Weather Report music composed by Austrian pianist Joe Zawinul. The Oles Brother
are quite correct in identifying the European element in these early works:
they’re quite unlike the later jazz fusion style increasingly adopted by
Weather Report as they became a jazz supergroup in the late 1970s. Their
earlier material (the source of all these Oles Brothers interpretations) was in
large part composed by Zawinul and reflects a much more ethereal, contemplative
approach – as heard in Milky Way, the opening track of their first self-titled
album released in 1971, and which has inspired a suite of improvisations on
this record. That 1971 self titled first album is indeed a certifiable jazz
classic, but the Oles Brothers – along with the subtle pianism of Piotr
Orzechowski – have succeeded in creating something very special too. “We wanted
to strip Zawinul’s output from fusion and electric sounds” said Marcin Oles and
this is exactly what they have done in their selections from both the first and
second Weather Records. Waterfall, the tune on this week’s show, is a long way
removed from Zawinul’s original conception and – as with John Surman above – is
further proof that the best musicians do not stay on the same path. Check this
one out at Steve’s Jazz Sounds – home to great jazz from Europe and elsewhere.

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By Adam Baruch
http://polish-jazz.blogspot.com/2020/12/oles-brothers-piotr-orzechowski.html

Piotr Rytowski (pl)
https://jazzpress.pl/plyty/oles-brothers-piotr-orzechowski-waterfall-music-joe-zawinul

Marek Dusza (pl)
https://audio.com.pl/muzyka/recenzje/jazz/28288-oles-brothers-piotr-orzechowski-waterfall

Dionizy Piątkowski (pl)
https://jazz.pl/oles-brothers-piotr-orzechowski-waterfall-music-of-joe-zawinul-audio-cave/

Par Franpi Barriaux (fr)
https://www.citizenjazz.com/les-freres-Oles-la-paire-et-les-pairs.html