Trio is an album by Polish jazz pianist and composer Marcin Wasilewski

Marcin Wasilewski (pianist)

Marcin Wasilewski, born 1975, is a Polish pianist and composer.Wasilewski established a musical partnership with bassist Slawomir Kurkiewicz and drummer Michal Miskiewicz as the Simple Acoustic Trio in the early-1990's which led to Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stańko mentoring the group for several...

 recorded in 2004 and released on the ECM label.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars stating "While none of these men are flashy as soloists, they are seriously accomplished jazzmen with advanced ability to hang with anyone. They have the goods, the ideas, and the method. When playing together, they can literally astonish because they make it all sound so easy. It's been a few years since a piano trio's debut has literally sung, but this one does so unceasingly. It has color and space and drama and beauty in spades".

Track listing

All compositions by Marcin Wasilewski, Slawomir Kurkiewicz and Michal Miskiewicz except as indicated

1. "Trio Conversation (Introduction)" - 2:47
2. "Hyperballad" (Björk
   Björk
   Björk Guðmundsdóttir , known as Björk , is an Icelandic singer-songwriter. Her eclectic musical style has achieved popular acknowledgement and popularity within many musical genres, such as rock, jazz, electronic dance music, classical and folk...
   
   ) - 5:55
3. "Roxana's Song" (Karol Szymanowski
   Karol Szymanowski
   Karol Maciej Szymanowski was a Polish composer and pianist.-Life:Szymanowski was born into a wealthy land-owning Polish gentry family in Tymoszówka, then in the Russian Empire, now in Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine. He studied music privately with his father before going to Gustav Neuhaus'...
   
   ) - 4:27
4. "K.T.C." (Wasilewski) - 6:22
5. "Plaza Real" (Wayne Shorter
   Wayne Shorter
   Wayne Shorter is an American jazz saxophonist and composer.He is generally acknowledged to be jazz's greatest living composer, and many of his compositions have become standards...
   
   ) - 5:55
6. "Shine" (Wasilewski) - 6:04
7. "Green Sky" (Tomasz Stańko
   Tomasz Stanko
   Tomasz Stańko is a Polish trumpeter, composer and improviser. Often recording for ECM, Stańko is strongly associated with free jazz and the avant-garde....
   
   ) - 6:52
8. "Sister's Song" (Ewa Wasilewska, Wasilewski) - 6:02
9. "Drum Kick" - 1:45
10. "Free-Bop" (Wasilewski) - 4:34
11. "Free Combinations for Three Instruments" - 4:56
12. "Entropy" - 5:53
13. "Trio Conversation (The End)" - 2:01
    • Recorded at Rainbow Studio in Oslo, Norway in March 2004.

Personnel

• Marcin Wasilewski
  Marcin Wasilewski (pianist)
  Marcin Wasilewski, born 1975, is a Polish pianist and composer.Wasilewski established a musical partnership with bassist Slawomir Kurkiewicz and drummer Michal Miskiewicz as the Simple Acoustic Trio in the early-1990's which led to Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stańko mentoring the group for several...
  
   - piano
  Piano
  The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...
  
  
• Slawomir Kurkiewicz - bass
  Double bass
  The double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, standup bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2...
  
  
• Michal Miskiewicz - drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....