Adam Baldych - The New Tradition '2014

Tracks list

After his acclaimed ACT debut, for which he was awarded as best international
instrumentalist with the german Jazz Echo, Adam Baldych returns with Yaron
Herman on the piano as a duo. Together they lose themselves in melodious
virtuosity, which always explodes in pure freedom in the end. An unbelievable
energy will directly run through your body.

Without doubt the greatest jazz violinist alive today. We can expect everything
from him, is what the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper wrote about Adam
Baldych ACT debut Imaginary Room. The young Pole is causing quite a stir on the
European jazz scene with his music. In Germany he won the ECHO Jazz in 2013. In
his homeland he is treading in the massive footsteps of Leszek Możdżer,
and the top echelons of European jazz, the likes of Iiro Rantala, appreciate his
skills, currently in his string trio. Musikmarkt calls Baldych a diabolically
divine violinist and the Süddeutsche Zeitung considers him one of the biggest
discoveries of contemporary European jazz.

The Paris-based Israeli pianist Yaron Herman has long been at the spearhead of
European jazz, and he is one of the most creative minds in the jazz world
(Kulturnews). Baldych came across this pianist who can quite simply play
everything – and everything always differently (Süddeutsche Zeitung)
quite by chance: Siggi Loch put them on the stage together for the first time at
the Jazz at the Berlin Philharmonic II concert in March 2013.

The chemistry was right from the outset. Two big musician personalities had
found each other, and they simply had to continue on the same path from that
moment on, a path called The New Tradition: an expedition that cuts a new trail
leading off from the beaten track. With total mutual trust, Baldych and Herman
set new standards in contemporary jazz. Seldom has a more intense and natural
collaboration been heard. Not in a struggle for supremacy, but instead
masterfully and highly emotional, full of depth and soul, Baldych and Herman
simply make music. And in doing so they prove that you dont need big ensembles
to create magic moments.

Making music has always been a way for me to fulfill my dreams, to challenge
myself and to travel through uncharted lands. The stories of those lands,
filtered through my personality, is what I share in a musical form with my
listeners. After the release of my previous album, “Imaginary Room”,
I had the opportunity to share the stage of the Berlin Philharmonic with Yaron
Herman. It was an extraordinary, magical moment for me. I felt as if I have
taken a deep breath and have found new impulses. A very classic duo of violin
and piano turned out to be astonishingly fresh and opened up new creative
possibilities for me. By scaling back and using only two instruments I was able
to showcase my music in a very detailed view, to focus on the musics structure,
its colour, the vibrations of the strings, the whisper of the bow.

The theme of “The New Tradition” album is a very important one.
Tradition is my point of reference. Who am I? Where do I come from? Where do I
go? Classical European music, Polish folk-music, Polish jazz – this is my
tradition, this is what surrounded me in my formative years and this is what my
music refers to. This album is another dream fulfilled, one that I would like to
share with you.

Adam Baldych, violin
Yaron Herman, piano

Tracklist:
01. Yaron Herman - Riverendings (5:22)
02. Yaron Herman - Legenda (7:51)
03. Yaron Herman - Sleep Safe and Warm (4:10)
04. Yaron Herman - Letter for E. (6:01)
05. Yaron Herman - June (4:40)
06. Yaron Herman - Quo Vadis (5:29)
07. Yaron Herman - Lamentation of Jeremiah (5:14)
08. Adam Baldych - Relativities (2:11)
09. Yaron Herman - Canticles of Ecstasy (4:52)
10. Yaron Herman - Preludium E Minor (2:08)

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