Live in Warsaw

n the last few years Dino Massa has had an intense concert activity in the USA and throughout Europe. He played in solo performance, with his band and as a guest with local musicians. In 2016, the owner of the jazz club in Warsaw 12on14 Jazz club, Tomasz Pierchala, invited Dino to play in his club for two days with a band of polish musicians. Dino played the previous year with one of them, the bassist Pawel Puszcalo, in the same club, but he never played with the saxophonist Tomasz Grzegorski and the drummer Lukasz Zyta before. These three musicians are certainly among the best Polish musicians living in Warsaw and this group performed two remarkable concerts, one of them recorded in this album. In this session the group played some famous american standards and two of Dino’s compositions, Mari del nord (North sea) with echoes of european jazz music, and Paris, an interesting song dedicated to the famous city. The collaboration between Dino an the saxophonist Tomasz Grzegorski has continued over the years and in 2021, they played in duo at Summer jazz Festival in Krakow.
This is a “real” jazz album, where the interplay between the four musicians is the main feature of the whole project.