KRZYSZTOF LENCZOWSKI TRIO - LOST JOURNEY

The Monday jazz concerts at the Philharmonic have become a tradition. During the last seven years of the Ice Palace's operation, we regularly present you with unique Polish and world jazz artists on a selected Monday of the month. So far, the Philharmonic in Szczecin has organized nearly 70 jazz concerts as part of the Espressivo series. We had the pleasure to host artists who operate on a vast spectrum of jazz music, expressing their work in a unique and special way.

We open 2022 with a concert by the best jazz cellist Krzysztof Lenczowski, a member of the world's most exciting jazz string quartet: the Atom String Quartet.

In March 2021, a new album by Lenczowski was released by the Lydian Series publishing house, which he recorded with Kajetan Galas on a Hammond organ and Bartek Staromiejski on drums. It contains ten different pieces in the style of European improvised music. As Krzysztof Lenczowski says, The inspiration for creating this album was the situation that affected us all, related to the COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences, especially the inability to travel. The immediate impulse for creating this album was reading the book "Bieguni" by Olga Tokarczuk, which I read in the spring of 2020, at the beginning of the first lockdown. It made a great impression on me because I did not realize how strong my need to move and meet new places and people was. While writing songs for the album LOST JOURNEY, for the first time in my life, I allowed myself to fully draw inspiration from cooperation with many great artists in recent years. Not looking inside yourself as before, but looking around.

Lenczowski, as a member of his own ensembles, and as a session musician, has recorded over 80 albums, including three original albums: "Internal Melody" (the first Polish jazz album signed with the cellist's name, which in 2016 was awarded a Fryderyk in the Jazz Phonographic Debut of the Year category), "Personal Things" (an album released in July 2018 which is a studio recording of a solo recital) and the said, "Lost Journey" (released in March 2021).