Beautiful Planet 2016

This is a solo soprano saxophone album recorded live by veteran Polish Jazz saxophonist / composer Adam Pieronczyk. It comprises of fifteen tracks, twelve of which are his original compositions and the remaining three are standards. Pieronczyk, who has been active on the scene since the late 1990s, has already an impressive discography to his credit listing dozens of albums both as a leader of various projects and as a sideman.

“I wanted to be very cinematic, and I had this sort of idea of us finally destroying this beautiful planet that we live on. Hence the northern lights: it’s just one in many millions of beautiful things… the oceans, just things that we take for granted. And the “Northern lights” was just a metaphor that I wanted to use, because I did once experience actually being there while that was happening, way up north in Scandinavia.