Warsaw Special
Monday 10 October at 11pm on BBC Radio 3
Jazz on 3 comes to you from Warsaw this week, as we delve into the city's thriving jazz scene. And we've unearthed a real gem to play on the programme - Profesjonalizm, a line-up whose names are reassuringly heavy on the consonants, and whose music oozes vitality from every pore.
Our first tour guide for the evening is, believe it or not, a Liverpudlian – ex-pat musician Ray Dickaty. And after a whistle-stop tour round the city, we get a taste of his free-improv trio Osaka Vacuum in action – it's an intriguing line-up of tenor sax, cello and drums, and it's a gig we're likely to revisit in more depth next year.
The main event this week is sextet Profesjonalizm, led by one of the city's brightest stars, pianist Marcin Masecki. Before the gig I caught up with him to discuss the humour in his music and hear about his rather wry take on the city's obsession with composer Frederic Chopin. There's definitely something irreverent and punkish about his music - brash horn-led ideas and souped-up polkas mesh with classical piano ideas given a twang by Marcin's apparently Chopin-era instrument! It all adds up to a performance that feels connected to Warsaw's heritage, but is really more about the here and now of this vibrant place.
Monday 10 October at 11pm on BBC Radio 3
Jazz on 3 comes to you from Warsaw this week, as we delve into the city's thriving jazz scene. And we've unearthed a real gem to play on the programme - Profesjonalizm, a line-up whose names are reassuringly heavy on the consonants, and whose music oozes vitality from every pore.
Our first tour guide for the evening is, believe it or not, a Liverpudlian – ex-pat musician Ray Dickaty. And after a whistle-stop tour round the city, we get a taste of his free-improv trio Osaka Vacuum in action – it's an intriguing line-up of tenor sax, cello and drums, and it's a gig we're likely to revisit in more depth next year.
The main event this week is sextet Profesjonalizm, led by one of the city's brightest stars, pianist Marcin Masecki. Before the gig I caught up with him to discuss the humour in his music and hear about his rather wry take on the city's obsession with composer Frederic Chopin. There's definitely something irreverent and punkish about his music - brash horn-led ideas and souped-up polkas mesh with classical piano ideas given a twang by Marcin's apparently Chopin-era instrument! It all adds up to a performance that feels connected to Warsaw's heritage, but is really more about the here and now of this vibrant place.
thanks for the reminder calum da jazbo, really looking forward to this jo3. coincidentally, it should compliment a book i'm currently reading about poilish exiles living in postwar europe. 
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