Arctic Riff – Marcin Wasilewski Trio & Joe Lovano
Joe Lovano – tenor saxophone
Marcin Wasilewski – piano
Slawomir Kurkiewicz – double- bass
Michal Miskiewicz – drums
The Marcin Wasilewski Trio album with Joe Lovano entitled „Arctiff Riff”, recorded for the ECM Records, was released on June 26, 2020.
ARCTIC RIFF TOUR
Almost 1.5 years we have been waiting for the opportunity to listen to live music from the Arcitc Riff album in the original line-up. Luckily, Joe Lovano will join the Polish Trio on a concert tour in selected venues and at selected festivals in Poland and Europe in autumn 2021.
The quartet, of Polish most outstanding jazz trio, Marcin Wasilewski with world jazz master saxophonist Joe Lovano, will start theitr tour at some best European festivals: GetCloser in Budapest, in the Finnish Espoo at the April Jazz Festival, the Belgrade Jazz Festival, JazzMi Festival in Milan, Veneto Jazz in Venice, Roma Jazz Festival, will also visit Palermo and Catania in Sicily to conclude European part in Spain's Seville and Puerto Real (Cadiz ).
For the final part of „Arctic Riff” Tour the Quartet will perform a series of concerts in Poland: at Warsaw’s Roma Theatre, Aula Artis in Poznań, Szczecin and Gdańsk Philharmonics, ICE Kraków Congress Centre and the Music Academy of Katowice.
The Marcin Wasilewski Trio & Joe Lovano „Arctic Riff” Tour 2021 is co-financed by the Minister of Culture, National Heritage and Sport of the Republic of Poland and co- organized by the Film and Jazz Foundation, Adam Mickiewicz Institute of Warsaw, the Polish Institutes: in Budapest, Madrid, Rome, the Zbigniew Seifert Foundation, ICE Kraków Congress Centre and Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice.
The co-organizer of the entire concert tour - the Film and Jazz Foundation is best known, among others, by the organizing of Krakow Jazz Juniors Festival and Competition (M. Wasilewski's Trio is one of the laureates of the 3rd place in 1991).
The Polish concerts take place thanks to the cooperation and support of the Union of Performing Artists STOART and the Society of Authors ZAIKS.
Warsaw concert held at the Roma Theater in Warsaw on November 8 as a part of the "Dobry wieczór jazz” („Good evening jazz”) series, and is announcing this year's ECM Warsaw Festival, supported by the Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation.
Marcin Wasilewski Trio & Joe Lovano „Arctic Riff” Tour 2021
26.10. – GetCloser Concerts, MomKult, Budapest, HUN
27.10. – April Jazz Festival, Tapiola Hall Espoo/Helsinki, FIN
28.10. – Belgrade Jazz Festival, Dom omladine Beograda, Belgrade, SRB
29.10. – Jazz Mi Festival, Teatro Triennale, Milan, ITA
30.10. – Teatro Golden, Palermo, ITA
31.10. – Teatro ABC, Catania, ITA
01.11. – Roma Jazz Festival, Petrassi Hall - Auditorium Parco Della Musica, Rome, ITA
02.11. – Veneto Jazz Festival, Venice, ITA
05.11. – Teatro Central, Seville, ESP
06.11. – Teatro Principal, Puerto Real / Cadiz, ESP
08.11. – Teatr Roma, Warsaw, PL
09.11. – Aula Artis, Poznań, PL
10.11. – Mieczyslaw Karłowicz Szczecin Philharmonics, Szczecin, PL
11.11. – Frederic Chopin Polish Baltic Philharmonics, Gdańsk, PL
12.11. – ICE Kraków Congress Centre, Kraków, PL
13.11. – Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music, Katowice, PL
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JOE LOVANO – BIO
Saxophonist, Composer, Educator, Recording Artist
Hailed by The New York Times as “one of the greatest musicians in jazz history,” Grammy Award winning saxophone titan Joe Lovano has distinguished himself as a prescient and pathfinding force in the arena of creative music.
Grammy-winning saxophonist, composer and producer Joe Lovano is fearless in finding new modes of artistic expression. With a Grammy Win for his 52nd Street Themes and 14 other nominations, he has won Down Beat Magazine’s Critics and Readers Polls countless times as Tenor Saxophonist, Musician of the Year, Jazz Album of the Year and Triple Crowns from Downbeat. He has also gotten numerous awards from Jazz Times and the Jazz Journalists Association for Tenor Saxophone, Album of the Year and Musician of the Year. Joe has performed and recorded with a long list of jazz greats including Woody Herman, Mel Lewis, Bob Brookmeyer, Paul Motian, Bill Frisell, Tony Bennett, Abbey Lincoln, Charlie Haden, John Scofield, Gunther Schuller, Elvin Jones, McCoy Tyner, Ed Blackwell, Herbie Hancock, Dave Holland, Hank Jones, Dave Liebman, Michael Brecker, Dave Douglas, Judi Silvano, Ravi Coltrane, Chucho Valdez, Ornette Coleman and many others.
While Luciano Pavarotti was still alive, Will Friedwald in the "Village Voice" magazine wrote: "Move over Pavarotti, the greatest Italian tenor around today isn't Luciano, but Lovano."