Adam Pierończyk


Adam Pierończyk is a Polish jazz saxophonist and composer. He plays tenor and soprano saxophones, as well as the zoucra.

Early life

Pierończyk was born in Elblag, Poland, on 24 January 1970. He learned the piano for three years from the age of eight, and later switched to saxophone. After moving with his parents to Germany, he "enrolled in the jazz department at the Higher Music School".

Later life and career

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. His tribute to pianist/composer Krzysztof Komeda, Komeda: The Innocent Sorcerer, was released in 2010. His Adam Pierończyk Quartet, from around the same time, was based on saxophone and trombone, without chordal instruments.

Playing style

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 tradition". 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, nursery-rhyme melodies that seem to change key every few bars, stringing together fragmented phrases".

Discography

As leader/co-leader
Title / co-leaderRecordedLabelReleasedNotes
Temathe - Water Conversations1995–10TEMATHE / Germany1996–01In Saarbrücken, Germany with Jan Oestreich, Christian Fischer
Anniversary Concert for Hestia1996–06DUX & Hestia / Poland1996–08Duet with Leszek Możdżer. Live.
Few Minutes in the Space1997–02GOWI Records / Poland 1997–05In Kraków, Poland. Trio with Adam Kowalewski, Jacek Olter, Zbigniew Namyslowski
Live in Sofia /with Leszek Możdżer1998?NOT TWO / Poland 1998–05Live in Sofia, Bulgaria
Plastinated Black Sheep1999–03NOT TWO & HiFi / Poland 1999–06with Ed Schuler, Jacek Kochan
19-9-1999 /with Leszek Możdżer1999–09Polish Institute in Kyiv & J.R.C. Jazz / Ukraine2000–04In Ukraine
Adam Pierończyk Digivoco /feat. Gary Thomas2000–11PAO Records / Austria 2001–06in Freiling, Austria /with Gary Thomas, Gunnar Geisse, Maurice de Martin, Tadeusz Sunday
Plastiline Black Sheep as Plastiline Black Sheep2001–05Meta Records / Germany 2001–09In Berlin with Johannes Fink, Maurice de Martin
Amusos2002–09PAO Records / Austria 2003–10In Berlin with Mina Agossi, Henning Sieverts, Adam Kowalewski, Tadeusz Sudnik, Daniel Schroeteler
Busem Po São Paulo2005–07META Records / Germany2006–05In São Paulo, Brazil. Trio with Krzysztof Dziedzic, Robert Kubiszyn, Guello, Anna Serafinska.
Live in Berlin2005–11META Records / Germany2007–01Live in Berlin. Trio with Ed Schuller, Krzysztof Dziedzic.
Live at A382007–07SP Records, Poland 2008–08 Live in Budapest, Hungary. Trio with Andrzej Swies, Krzysztof Dziedzic.
El Buscador2008–01JazzWerkstatt Berlin / Germany 2010–01In Gdansk, Poland. Quartet with Adrian Mears, Anthony Cox, Krzysztof Dziedzic.
A-Trane Nights2008–01For Tune / Poland 2014–10Live in Berlin, Germany. Quartet with Adrian Mears, Anthony Cox, Krzysztof Dziedzic.
Komeda – The Innocent Sorcerer2009–11JazzWerkstatt Berlin /Germany 2010–11In Warsaw, Poland with Gary Thomas, Nelson Veras, Anthony Cox, Lukasz Zyta
Gajcy Szyc Pierończyk /with Borys Szyc2009–12Muzeum Powstania Warszawskiego2010–03Poetry by Tadeusz Gajcy. In Niepolomice, Poland.
The Planet of Eternal Life2013–06JazzWerkstatt Berlin / Germany 2013–11In Peitz, Germany. solo soprano saxophone album.
Migratory Poets /feat. Anthony Joseph2014–11For Tune / Poland 2015–04In Katowice, Poland with Anthony Joseph, Nelson Veras, Robert Kubiszyn, John B. Arnold
Wings /with Miroslav Vitous2015–08,
2015–09		For Tune / Poland 2015–11In Gdansk, Poland
Monte Albán2016–03Jazz Sound / Poland 2016–10In Mexico with Robert Kubiszyn, Hernan Hecht
Live at NOSPR /with Miroslav Vitous2016–03Jazz Sound / Poland 2019–11Live in Katowice, Poland
Ad-lib Orbits /with Miroslav Vitous2016–07PAO Records / Austria 2017–06In Prague, Czech Republic