Dream / Various

The newest release from Kinga Glyk of Poland, available only as an import right now, and on digital download. I bought my CD copy as an import.I really like her band and chemistry with Andrzej Gondek on guitar and Paweł Tomaszewski on piano. Those are the folks on the outstanding Happy Birthday live album (which is a must have). This CD has other musicians. Comparing the two, I think Happy Birthday live is more in a Pat Metheny Group type feel, and a bit more accessible to a non-Jazzer like me. This disc is a little more experimental and serious, but keeps the great bass tone and stands up to repeated listening. I also bought her "Rejestracja" album which contains vocals on some tracks. All three are strong and worthwhile, while Happy Birthday is still my favorite album.

I'll start with praising Kinga Głyk and her band for the excellent music.I am not impressed at all with the sound quality on the record. The highs are conspicuously absent, and the lows are crammed and muddy - tried with different cartridges, no difference.

Great jazzy daughter and father band with gifted talent from Poland.

Much as I hate to admit it, there really is some great jazz being recorded these days, even though the kids really do need to get off my lawn, and the bass has shown so much growth since the heyday of what is usually my favorite period of the 1950s and 1960s thanks to that kid from Florida. Enter brilliant youngsters today like Kinga Glyk. She has the chops and the range to satisfy even the stuffiest of us, and there is material on Dream that will do so.Is it a perfect album? No, and in a sense, I think that the flaw is a lack of coherence in an attempt to satisfy everyone. That's a hard thing to do, and while Marcus Miller can pull it off, that's just a hard balance. The range here goes from pleasing, radio friendly fusion to funky to some weirder stuff, and while Kinga's bass is always impressive, her band shares well and the production is clean and nicely done, the whole isn't necessarily the sum of the parts. All things to all people doesn't always work. And in some places, it just gets tonally odd. Consider the cover of Tears In Heaven. So, I'm not really a big Clapton fan. Of the Yardbirds guitarists, I think he was actually the least interesting, being a Jeff Beck fan mainly (go figure that the jazz fanatic is a Beck partisan), but like everyone in the western hemisphere in that time period, I was inundated with that song. It didn't even hold any special meaning for me, not, as I said, being a big-time Clapton fan, but I know the song. So, you get to Glyk's version, and it's a sort of bouncy, swingin' affair, to borrow the title of a Dexter Gordon album. The juxtaposition of that song with that approach just sits as weird with me. Is it bad? No, and if you didn't know the song, you could come across it, hear it, and just enjoy it with no cognitive dissonance about the gap between the origin of the piece and the mood with which it is played, but there's just that weirdness.And that weirdness pervades the overall composition of the album. A little of this, a little of that, a dollop here, a dollop there, and while every individual piece is good, it just doesn't hang together with the same kind of coherence as Kinga's live album. It's like the difference between a novel and a collection of random short stories, with some tonally odd choices.Is there a single bit of bad music here? Not even close. Kinga's bass is spot-on, her band is in the pocket, the engineering captures everything, and it's a good album. It just doesn't quite have the excitement I got when I first saw a video clip of her funked-out bass virtuosity. Her live album does. So there it is.Please, Kinga, record more. Preferably live.

Brilliant playing by a very talented crew ... if you like modern jazz with a solid punch and rhythm, along with excellent playing and very good recording, this is a must-have item

Was surprised by the new ideas in this Album. Would do it all over again in future Album purchases if I could find such pleasure in listening as I did this time.

Basstechnisch schön zu hören und vielfältige Auswahl an eigenen Stücken und Stücken von anderen Größen.

Nicht Ihre beste Scheibe aber ein paar Songs sind einfach auf mega Niveau. Als Bassistin eine echte Entdeckung.

Diese CD würde weiter empfehlen.