Adam Pierończyk

Adam Pierończyk (born 24 January 1970) is a Polish jazz saxophonist and composer. He plays tenor and soprano saxophones, as well as the zoucra. He learned the piano for three years from the age of eight, and later switched to saxophone. His Adam Pierończyk Quartet, from around the same time, was based on saxophone and trombone, without chordal instruments.

Playing style The Jazz Book by Joachim-Ernst Berendt describes Pierończyk as an "emotionally enormously powerful stylist [...] whose playing is deeply founded in the great black tenor [saxophone] tradition". His playing on Adam Pierończyk Quartet was described by a New York City Jazz Record reviewer as: "folk-futurist along the lines of Ornette Coleman, [...with] nursery-rhyme melodies that seem to change key every few bars, stringing together fragmented phrases".

Discography As leader/co-leader Title / co-leader Recorded Label Released Notes Temathe - Water Conversations 1995–10 TEMATHE / Germany 1996–01 In Saarbrücken, Germany with Jan Oestreich, Christian Fischer Anniversary Concert for Hestia 1996–06 DUX & Hestia / Poland 1996–08 Duet with Leszek Możdżer. Live. Few Minutes in the Space 1997–02 GOWI Records / Poland (CDG 43) 1997–05 In Kraków, Poland. Trio with Adam Kowalewski, Jacek Olter, Zbigniew Namyslowski Live in Sofia /with Leszek Możdżer 1998? NOT TWO / Poland (MW 701-2) 1998–05 Live in Sofia, Bulgaria Plastinated Black Sheep 1999–03 NOT TWO & HiFi / Poland (MW 710-2) 1999–06 with Ed Schuler, Jacek Kochan 19-9-1999 /with Leszek Możdżer 1999–09 Polish Institute in Kyiv & J.R.C. Jazz / Ukraine 2000–04 In Ukraine Adam Pierończyk Digivoco /feat. Gary Thomas 2000–11 PAO Records / Austria (PAO 10230) 2001–06 in Freiling, Austria /with Gary Thomas, Gunnar Geisse, Maurice de Martin, Tadeusz Sunday Plastiline Black Sheep as Plastiline Black Sheep 2001–05 Meta Records / Germany (Meta 012) 2001–09 In Berlin with Johannes Fink, Maurice de Martin Amusos 2002–09 PAO Records / Austria (PAO 10900) 2003–10 In Berlin with Mina Agossi, Henning Sieverts, Adam Kowalewski, Tadeusz Sudnik, Daniel Schroeteler Busem Po São Paulo 2005–07 META Records / Germany 2006–05 In São Paulo, Brazil. Trio with Krzysztof Dziedzic, Robert Kubiszyn, Guello, Anna Serafinska. Live in Berlin 2005–11 META Records / Germany 2007–01 Live in Berlin. Trio with Ed Schuller, Krzysztof Dziedzic. Live at A38 2007–07 SP Records, Poland (SPDVD 01/08) 2008–08 [DVD-Video] Live in Budapest, Hungary. Trio with Andrzej Swies, Krzysztof Dziedzic. El Buscador 2008–01 JazzWerkstatt Berlin / Germany (JW 064) 2010–01 In Gdansk, Poland. Quartet with Adrian Mears, Anthony Cox, Krzysztof Dziedzic. A-Trane Nights 2008–01 For Tune / Poland (0040(028)) 2014–10 Live in Berlin, Germany. Quartet with Adrian Mears, Anthony Cox, Krzysztof Dziedzic. Komeda – The Innocent Sorcerer 2009–11 JazzWerkstatt Berlin /Germany (JW 104) 2010–11 In Warsaw, Poland with Gary Thomas, Nelson Veras, Anthony Cox, Lukasz Zyta Gajcy Szyc Pierończyk /with Borys Szyc 2009–12 Muzeum Powstania Warszawskiego 2010–03 Poetry by Tadeusz Gajcy. In Niepolomice, Poland. The Planet of Eternal Life 2013–06 JazzWerkstatt Berlin / Germany (JW 149) 2013–11 In Peitz, Germany. solo soprano saxophone album. Migratory Poets /feat. Anthony Joseph 2014–11 For Tune / Poland (0061(039)) 2015–04 In Katowice, Poland with Anthony Joseph, Nelson Veras, Robert Kubiszyn, John B. Arnold Wings /with Miroslav Vitous 2015–08,2015–09 For Tune / Poland (0084(054)) 2015–11 In Gdansk, Poland Monte Albán 2016–03 Jazz Sound / Poland (JS020 ) 2016–10 In Mexico with Robert Kubiszyn, Hernan Hecht Live at NOSPR /with Miroslav Vitous 2016–03 Jazz Sound / Poland (JS021) 2019–11 Live in Katowice, Poland Ad-lib Orbits /with Miroslav Vitous 2016–07 PAO Records / Austria (PAO11320) 2017–06 In Prague, Czech Republic