In 2008 Walerian started individual studies on classical Japanese music, picking up soprano clarinet and flute.
[1] Since 2023, he has also been working on an alternative use of the contrabass clarinet in improvised music, study also dictated by the specificity of the duo with double bassist William Parker and another performance at New York's Vision festival.
He was strongly attracted to jazz, but also played in crossover groups, melding hardcore and heavy experimental guitar music with free improvisation while in high school.
For over 50 years of tradition ESP happened to be home for such notable artists, like Albert Ayler, Pharoah Sanders, Ornette Coleman, Sun Ra, Rashied Ali, Don Cherry, Marion Brown, Paul Bley, Burton Greene, Billie Holiday, Max Roach, Bud Powell, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Lester Young, Kenny Dorham, Steve Lacy, Sonny Simmons or Ronald Shannon Jackson among others.
In his recommendation the author says that "a piece called “One For” suggests intimate familiarity with the chance-taking of John Coltrane’s later groups.
[37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46] Two biggest names in audiophile world, being The Absolute Sound,[47] and Stereophile New York, awarded the albums with highest notes.
Walerian's music made it to #1 position both on US[48][49] and Canada Jazz Charts,[50] with albums being presented by a large number of radio stations worldwide, including New York,[51][52] Los Angeles,[53] Washington D.C,[54][55] Chicago,[56] New Orleans,[49] St.Louis,[57][58] Santa Monica, Seattle, Denver,[59] or Nebraska[60] in the US ; Toronto, Montreal,[61] or Vancouver in Canada ; London UK,[62][63] and Polish National Public Radio.
[64] His style is firmly in the mainstream of modern jazz and improvised music, somewhere around hard free bop with a tribute to the atonal avant-garde heritage.
From 2005 through 2008 he concentrated on projects characterized by heavy echoes of third stream and chamber music qualities melded along with Asian harmony and instruments.
Walerian starts on Bb clarinet and evoking the tradition of the best genuine clarinetists - from Benny Goodman, through Jimmy Giuffre to Europeans : Louis Sclavis, Michel Portal.
(...) "Free Bob Statement 1 and 2", that illustrate amazing chemical bonds between the two musicians and their mutual understanding and unity...
It is not only virtuoso piece in the technical sense - it is also explosion of emotions and feelings... As a whole, this set is a true masterpiece and super important recording not only for Polish jazz!!!
[36]A large number of lineups with both Shipp and Drake followed, including a trio which turned out to be the second most important point in Walerian's career after The uppercut.
Jungle is incomparable to anything else... it is an artistic achievement of the highest possible standard... such a recording of one or one and a half hour long concert, that is a continuous and uniform flow of beauty, intensity and expression is not a frequent thing in the jazz history.