SKALPEL Vinyl & CDs

Review: Skalpel is one of Poland's finest jazz outfits and this album captures them at their very best. It is a collection of some of their older material, all of it performed live by a masterful 17-piece big band with a wide range of sounds in their arsenal. At times the music is moody and low-lit, smoky and hypnotic, and at others, it breaks out into vibrant worlds and blissed-out feelings. The album was recorded during a sold-out performance in Warsaw at which Skalpel's founding members Igor Pudlo and Marcin Cichy, were joined on stage by the Big Band and led by Patryk Pilasiewicz.