DARIUSZ PETERA - musician, pianist, composer. Team leader: Petera Sextet and jazz-rock band Fusion Generation Project. He has two albums in his discography: signed with his name "Flashover" (Lydian Series / Requiem Records, 2019), recorded with the team of Petera Sextet and "No Fusion" (Allegro Records, 2013), registered with the Fusion Generation Project team, which featured the American trumpeter Michael "Patches" Stewart. He is a graduate of the Original School of Popular Music and Jazz K. Komeda in Warsaw in the arrangement class of prof. Lucjan Kaszycki and piano by Wojciech Kamiński. He also studied at the excellent jazz pianist Janusz Skowron.
Laureate of the 3rd Place in the 5th International Competition for Jazz Composition 2018 as part of the 13th edition of the Silesian Jazz Festival (Katowice 2018). Finalist and laureate of jazz competitions in Poland (Krokus Jazz Festiwal 2010, Jazz nad Odrą 2011, European Musical Integrations 2011 and Bielska Zadymka Jazzowa 2012). In 2013 - 2014, in the annual survey of Jazz Top readers of the Jazz Forum magazine, he was among the most outstanding figures of Polish jazz in two instrumental categories: piano and synthesizer.
Awards
3 rd place in the 5th International Competition for Jazz Composition 2018 as part of the 13th edition of the
Silesian Jazz Festival (Katowice 2018).
1 Place in the European Musical Integration 2011 competition (with the Fusion Generation Project team).
In 2013, a lot of confusion was caused by the release of the album titled "No Fusion" of Fusion Generation Project quartet, combining fascination with jazz of the 1980s with fresh inventiveness of the musicians creating this project. The album you have in front of you was recorded by two instrumentalists forming the basis of this line-up: the excellent pianist Dariusz Petera and the multi-talented cellist Krzysztof Lenczowski, together with musicians originating from the present top Polish jazz elite (Emil Miszk - trumpet, Maciej Kociński – tenor saxophone, Andrzej Święs- double bass and Krzysztof Szmańda - drums ).
Petera Sextet is a new chapter in the output of Dariusz Petera debuting on this album as a leader, a pianist who has been consistently building his name on the national jazz scene for several years
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In 2013, a lot of confusion was caused by the release of the album titled "No Fusion" of Fusion Generation Project quartet, combining fascination with jazz of the 1980s with fresh inventiveness of the musicians creating this project. The album you have in front of you was recorded by two instrumentalists forming the basis of this line-up: the excellent pianist Dariusz Petera and the multi-talented cellist Krzysztof Lenczowski, together with musicians originating from the present top Polish jazz elite (Emil Miszk - trumpet, Maciej Kociński – tenor saxophone, Andrzej Święs- double bass and Krzysztof Szmańda - drums ).
Petera Sextet is a new chapter in the output of Dariusz Petera debuting on this album as a leader, a pianist who has been consistently building his name on the national jazz scene for several years. This time the artist offers more sophisticated music in terms of both climate and sound. The records made in just two days are illustrated by a perfectly coordinated band in which the voice of each musician is an equal part of the final form obtained. The leader gave a lot of space to each instrument, bestowing full confidence in each musician. No wonder, after all Petera has surrounded himself with artists, each of whom has an excellent technique and extraordinary sense of improvisation, and great experience gained in the framework of, not only cooperation with top Polish jazz artists, but also his own original projects.
The album, which is a clash of six outstanding musical personalities, is also an opportunity to get to know the leader of the project as a pianist and composer of immense imagination and improvisational sense. The songs forming "Flashover" are music directed to audience who values not only virtuosity and improvisation, but also is willing to delve into the atmosphere, harmony and melodics enchanted in the songs completing the album.
Robert Ratajczak
(Jazz Forum)
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