Well this is quite moving in a year that sadly has seen the passing of Tomasz Stańko who revered and played with Krzysztof Komeda, the famed Polański film composer (Knife in the Water, Rosemary’s Baby)... listening to the Komeda inspired Wojtek Mazolewski quintet takes me back to 1997 and Litania to my mind the only, yet one of v. many, Komeda tribute projects available worthy of that name often very cult that I at least have heard.

In Poland Komeda is as revered by jazz musicians as classical people revere Witold Lutosławski, literary folk Jan Kochanowski, his spare romantic bittersweet highly poetic very humane themes and extraordinary abstract imagery especially on the masterpiece Astigmatic stirring the Polish and universal soul like few others since the 1960s.

Led from the bass with Wojtek [a diminutive for Wojciech] are Oskar Török on trumpet, Marek Pospieszalski, tenor saxophone, Joanna Duda, piano and Qba Janicki drums.

The Komeda piece that the quintet play is music from ‘Gdy spadają anioły’ which in English is known as When Angels Fall, a short 22-minute film that goes back to Polański's film school days in Łódź.