Adam Pierończyk (born 24 January 1970) is a Polish jazz saxophonist and composer. He plays tenor and soprano saxophones, as well as the zoucra.[1]
Pierończyk was born in Elblag, Poland, on 24 January 1970.[1] He learned the piano for three years from the age of eight, and later switched to saxophone.[1] After moving with his parents to Germany, he "enrolled in the jazz department at the Higher Music School".[1]
Pierończyk has won awards from the Polish magazine Jazz Forum: New Hope of Polish Jazz in 1997, and the readers' choice as Best Soprano Saxophonist in 2003 and 2004.[1] His tribute to pianist/composer Krzysztof Komeda, Komeda: The Innocent Sorcerer, was released in 2010.[2] His Adam Pierończyk Quartet, from around the same time, was based on saxophone and trombone, without chordal instruments.[3]
The Jazz Book by Joachim-Ernst Berendt describes Pierończyk as an "emotionally enormously powerful stylist [...] whose playing is deeply founded in the great black tenor [saxophone] tradition".[4] His playing on Adam Pierończyk Quartet was described by a New York City Jazz Record reviewer as: "folk-futurist along the lines of Ornette Coleman, [...with] nursery-rhyme melodies that seem to change key every few bars, stringing together fragmented phrases".[3]
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