Borys Janczarski: tenor saxophone
Tomasz Grzegorski: tenor & soprano saxophone
Wojciech Pulcyn: double bass
Kazimierz Jonkisz: drums
Jerzy Małek: trumpet [4,5,6]

Kazimierz Jonkisz, born in 1948, is a legend of Polish jazz and arguably one of the best drummers of its golden era along with equally prominent Czesław Bartkowski or Janusz Stefański. He collaborated with almost every significant jazz musician in Poland, among them those the greatest like Zbigniew Namysłowski, Mieczysław Kosz, Adam Makowicz, Michał Urbaniak or Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski. He was also one of the first or even the first drummer in Polish jazz who created and led his own ensemble. With his bands he recorded for acclaimed Polish Jazz series in 1980 "Tiritaka" and in 1987 "Outsider" which count among the best albums in whole history of jazz music in Poland.

Unlike many of his colleagues from that era who either became inactive or have nothing interesting to say, Jonkisz continued to record important albums also in new "capitalistic" times. Perhaps it helped him that since 1992 he was working with younger generation as a teacher of drumming at well-known Warsaw Music College. Anyway he was able to establish relationships with younger players and appeared on such successful albums as, only very lately, Piotr Lemańczyk's "Naha Poeple" (2009) or Joanna Gajda's "Heaven Earth Earth Heaven" (2011). But admirers of his talent have waited impatiently for his own project and been longing for times when his albums gave direction to jazz in our country.

Those times are now well over, at least in my opinion, and those giants of the past like Namysłowski, Karolak, Urbaniak and even Stańko himself are not any more so influential as before. Zimpel, Trzaska, Rogiński, Masecki, Obara are now among those who go in the vanguard of improvised music in Poland. Still it is great news that Jonkisz has once again assembled the band and at last recorded new material. Especially since it will probably fulfill all expectations of his fans as it is a straight-ahead continuation of a language he used on his famous albums of 80ties. Music is clearly build upo.......
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Któż z nas nie pamięta takich słynnych albumów Kazimierza Jonkisza jak "Tiri Taka" czy "Outsider" wydanych w kultowej serii Polish Jazz w latach osiemdziesiątych!
To właśnie w zespole Jonkisza spotkali się Janusz Skowron i Krzesimir Dębski, co zaskutkowało wspólnym projektem znanym pod nazwą String Connection.

W 1978 roku jako pierwszy perkusista w Polsce założył własny zespół jazzowy. Przez Jego zespoły przewinęło się wielu znanych obecnie muzyków. Pierwsze swoje „jazzowe szlify” zdobywali tacy muzycy jak: Krzesimir Dębski, Janusz Skowron, Maciej Strzelczyk, Andrzej Olejniczak, Maciej Sikała, Krzysztof Popek i wielu innych.

Zespół ENERGY jest kolejną formacją prowadzoną przez Kazimierza Jonkisza. Towarzyszą mu młode lwy polskiego jazzu – saksofoniści Borys Janczarski i Tomasz Grzegorski, kontrabasista Wojciech Pulcyn i trębacz Jerzy Małek.
Nazwa zespołu jest adekwatna do tego co dzieje się na płycie. Zespół wprowadza publiczność w znakomity klimat, od nastrojowej ballady do niezwykłej ekspresji.


Kazimierz Jonkisz, born in 1948, is a legend of Polish jazz and arguably one of the best drummers of its golden era along with equally prominent Czesław Bartkowski or Janusz Stefański. He collaborated with almost every significant jazz musician in Poland, among them those the greatest like Zbigniew Namysłowski, Mieczysław Kosz, Adam Makowicz, Michał Urbaniak or Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski. He was also one of the first or even the first drummer in Polish jazz who created and led his own ensemble. With his bands he recorded for acclaimed Polish Jazz series in 1980 "Tiritaka" and in 1987 "Outsider" which count among the best albums in whole history of jazz music in Poland.

Unlike many of his colleagues from that era who either became inactive or have nothing interesting to say, Jonkisz continued to record important albums also in new "capitalistic" times. Perhaps it helped him that s.......
more