Released April 21, 2011 Length 71:45 Release date 21 April 2011 Label ECM Records | Recorded August 2010 Faithful
(2010) Spark of Life
(2014) Producer Manfred Eicher Genre Jazz | |
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Studio Auditorio Radiotelevisione svizzera, Lugano Artists Marcin Wasilewski, Slawomir Kurkiewicz Marcin Wasilewski albums Trio, Forever Young, January | ||
Faithful is an album by Polish jazz pianist and composer Marcin Wasilewski recorded in 2010 and released on the ECM label.
Contents
Marcin wasilewski trio song for wirek from faithful
Reception
In JazzTimes Brent Burton wrote "Turn it up loud or turn it down low; either way, it’s one of the best piano-trio recordings you’ll hear this year". The Guardian critic John Fordham observed "Like their earlier ECM albums Trio and January, Faithful is predominantly pensive, but the trio are vivacious even while dreamwalking". On All About Jazz John Kelman noted "Wasilewski may be the titular leader, and contribute all the original material, but Faithful clearly relies entirely on the strength of a collective for whom lyricism is paramount, regardless of the context—direct and driven or implicit and suggestive, but always placing the whole as the objective beyond its individual contributing voices".
Track listing
All compositions by Marcin Wasilewski except where noted.
- "An Den Kleinen Radioapparat" (Hanns Eisler) - 4:30
- "Night Train to You" - 10:41
- "Faithful" (Ornette Coleman) - 7:16
- "Mosaic" - 10:34
- "Ballad of the Sad Young Men" (Fran Landesman, Tommy Wolf) - 5:29
- "Oz Guizos" (Hermeto Pascoal) - 6:32
- "Song for Swirek" - 8:14
- "Woke Up in the Desert" - 5:32
- "Big Foot" (Paul Bley) - 6:21
- "Lugano Lake" - 6:33
Personnel
Songs
1An den kleinen Radioapparat4:30
2Night Train To You10:41
3Faithful7:16