Adam Pierończyk

Adam Pierończyk (born 24 January 1970) is a Polish jazz saxophonist and composer.

[1] After moving with his parents to Germany, he "enrolled in the jazz department at the Higher Music School".

[2] His Adam Pierończyk Quartet, from around the same time, was based on saxophone and trombone, without chordal instruments.

[3] 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".

[4] 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".