Faithful (Marcin Wasilewski album)

Faithful
Studio album by Marcin Wasilewski
Released	April 21, 2011
Recorded	August 2010
Studio	Auditorio Radiotelevisione svizzera, Lugano
Genre	Jazz
Length	71:45
Label	ECM ECM 2208
Producer	Manfred Eicher
Marcin Wasilewski chronology
January (2007) Faithful (2011) Spark of Life (2014)

Faithful is an album by Polish jazz pianist and composer Marcin Wasilewski recorded in 2010 and released on the ECM label.[1][2][3]

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
The Guardian	[4]
All About Jazz	[5]

In JazzTimes Brent Burton wrote "Turn it up loud or turn it down low; either way, it’s one of the best piano-trio recordings you’ll hear this year".[6] The Guardian;s critic John Fordham observed: "Like their earlier ECM albums Trio and January, Faithful is predominantly pensive, but the trio are vivacious even while dreamwalking".[4] For All About Jazz, John Kelman wrote: "Wasilewski may be the titular leader, and contribute all the original material, but Faithful clearly relies entirely on the strength of a collective for whom lyricism is paramount, regardless of the context—direct and driven or implicit and suggestive, but always placing the whole as the objective beyond its individual contributing voices".[5]

Track listing

All compositions by Marcin Wasilewski, except where indicated.

1. "An Den Kleinen Radioapparat" (Hanns Eisler) - 4:30
2. "Night Train to You" - 10:41
3. "Faithful" (Ornette Coleman) - 7:16
4. "Mosaic" - 10:34
5. "Ballad of the Sad Young Men" (Fran Landesman, Tommy Wolf) - 5:29
6. "Oz Guizos" (Hermeto Pascoal) - 6:32
7. "Song for Swirek" - 8:14
8. "Woke Up in the Desert" - 5:32
9. "Big Foot" (Paul Bley) - 6:21
10. "Lugano Lake" - 6:33

Personnel

• Marcin Wasilewski - piano
• Slawomir Kurkiewicz - bass
• Michal Miskiewicz - drums

References

1. ECM Releases accessed October 24, 2016
2. Marcin Wasilewski Catalog accessed October 24, 2016
3. Marcin Wasilewski Trio discography accessed October 24, 2016
4. Fordham, J., The Guardian Review, April 22, 2011
5. Kelman, J., All About Jazz Review, accessed October 24, 2016
6. Burton, B. JazzTimes Review June 2011