Agnieszka Hekiert - Night And Day Swing

Styles: Jazz, Vocal
Year: 2004
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 48:09
Size: 110,3 MB
Art: Front

(6:55)  1. Green Eyes
(4:42)  2. Smile
(3:20)  3. Night and Day
(5:06)  4. They Can't Take That Away From Me
(6:14)  5. Our Love is Here to Stay
(4:16)  6. Route
(6:04)  7. Tea in the Sahara
(2:36)  8. A Tisket a Tasket
(8:52)  9. What a Wonderful World

The jazz singer, Agnieszka Hekiert, has been working with the extraordinary jazz artist Bobby McFerrin since 2009. Her other stage partners include Krzysztof Herdzin, considered by Jazz Forum to be one of the three best jazz pianists in Poland, and the Polish jazz legend Leszek Zadlo. She is currently the most in-demand vocal coach in Poland because she gives the final polish to the voices of young artists in TV shows like X-Factor (2011 TVN), Poland's Got Talent (2010/2011 TVN), My Camp Rock II (2009 Disney Channel) and Star Academy (2008Polsat). 

Agnieszka is there fore able to combine two of her passions: performing on stage as bandleader during jazz concerts and imparting her knowledge and experience as vocal coach to young talents. She still gets to work with the best: WeBe3, Rhiannon, Roger Treece and above all Bobby McFerrin, with whom she sang numerous concerts (Vocabularies Project).

Agnieszka has a degree from the jazz and pop department of the music academy in Kattowitz. Her career began in Poland, where she won many prizes at divers festivals. She then worked with well-known stars of the Polish music scene like Krzysztof cieraski, Wiesaw Pieregorólka, Natalia Kukulska, Maryla Rodowicz, Ryszard Rynkowski and Marek Baata.With the years, her field of activity extended beyond the Polish border. Agnieszka started to perform in both Germany and Austria. This resulted in an ongoing collaboration with the saxophonist Leszek Zadlo, the Bulgarian pianist Konstantin Kostov and the percussionist Nevian Lenkov.The fruits of this collaboration, which can be found on the 2009 album "European Impressions", are an incredible mixture of Slavonian melancholy and Balkan energy. The virtuosity of Leszek Zadlo is combined with the wonderful and expressive voice of Agnieszka with ease and energetic improvisation.

Agnieszka also writes music and lyrics, creates arrangements, directs a Circle singing choir (like Bobby McFerrin) and holds vocal workshops all around Europe. The Süddeutsche Zeitung about Agnieszka: "Unbelievable vocal artistic and phrasing"... and the Tölzer Kurier: "Her music is a pleasure for the ears"; "The finest jazz, that one can just not get enough of"  http://www.hekiert.com/bio-1.html

Night And Day Swing

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Agnieszka Hekiert E-Jazz Quartet - Stories

Styles: Jazz, Vocal
Year: 2012
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 65:31
Size: 151,1 MB
Art: Front

(6:03)  1. Like A Nice Dream
(5:23)  2. Last Camel
(4:33)  3. Ballad For M
(5:13)  4. Gdyby Tylko
(4:58)  5. Folk Song
(6:44)  6. Prabhakar
(5:51)  7. Nic
(6:38)  8. On Green Dolphin Street
(4:36)  9. Kiedy Mowisz
(5:38) 10. Who Knows
(5:43) 11. Fragile
(4:06) 12. Not A Samba

It took some three weeks that I understand these stories. Agnieszka album Hekiert, which can in principle be regarded as her solo debut disc does not belong to hit. I could not choose from this CD single. It should be for the panels, which should be in every good jazz music library consists. If you have a limited budget, you buy yourself this album, leaving on the shelf in the store this year the world's greatest singers news. You will not regret it for a moment. Music does not create name. Music is the excitement and "Stories" is an album simply true and therefore so beautiful, but at the same time uneasy, nieprzebojowy.

Today, impeccable vocal technique, musicianship and compositions are good enough. Such panels can be found on store shelves much. So why do we reach just after the "Stories"? It's simple ... Here no one will fail. You will find here beautiful ballads, feisty duo Agnes Hekiert with Cuba Badach - "If only", featuring occurring recently ubiquitous Atom String Quartet and an equally active, playing the flute in "Prabhakar" Christopher Herdzin. This is the real debut of Agnieszka Hekiert, because as she says, her recorded several years ago with a team of Christopher Herdzin album "Night And Day Swing" is an album "in a drawer". Agnieszka is for this very active on stage. Perhaps some of you have not noticed collaboration with Bobby McFerrin at the concert of the project "Vocabularies" or the many concerts that Agnieszka game, mainly in Germany with Leszek Sting and Konstantin Kostov. I admit that I, too, am among you. Bobby McFerrin with this particular project did not come to the Polish, you probably did not make the organizer of an adequate budget, something else to bring one singer with a microphone in his pocket, and a completely different project is the appearance of several people. But today is not about Bobby McFerrinie, but about Agnes Hekiert that is for me and I have no doubt that it will also be a valuable discovery for you.

Agnes can sing anything. With effortless ease as he sings ballads, swings, improvising without words, perfect breath control in challenging fast passages. But it all seems obvious, does not it stand "Stories" with other vocal blockbuster. Also excellent compositions in the case of good boards are obvious. Those listed in the "Stories" are in large part by Konstantin Kostova. It is also one of the most recorded Polish compositions - "On Green Dolphin Street," Bronislaw Kaper and "Fragile" by Sting. It's a great set of good texts and even better music. But choose a good composition is not everything. You have to feel them so that listeners hear the emotions real and not fake. It managed to Agnieszka Hekiert perfectly ...This album is for me a revelation. It is not only exquisite vocal and full of great compositions plate with which I met Agnes talent. 

It is also extremely original pianist - Konstantin Kostov. His playing is full of Bulgarian somewhat unusual even for wyrobionego jazz listener scales. From the same Agnieszka I know that this extraordinary pianist plans to release his own album, which will be equally interesting. Regular listeners to my radio already had the opportunity to hear pieces of it ... With this album, as I said I could not choose a single. Officially, promotes album "Who Knows". I conspicuous abstract vocals in "Last Camel" - it's my favorite track on the album, vocal improvisations in "Prabhakar" and brilliantly sung standard - "On Green Dolphin Street". I prefer too Agnieszka export version singing in English. But it's a great album and this choice does not mean that the other songs are worse, this matter of taste. I'm going to this board often come back and certainly always listened to her in full, and I highly recommend you.  Translate by google  http://www.jazzpress.pl/plyta-tygodnia/1358-agnieszka-hekiert-stories

Stories

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