Chord Nation Suite Recording Session - Nikola Kołodziejczyk Orchestra

Chord Nation is a jazz orchestra suite written by Nikola Kołodziejczyk as a commission from Jazztopad Festival 2010. It is a 70-minute piece for 27 highly skilled musicians that takes on enjoyment of rhythm and harmony and broadens the jazz orchestra idiom.

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Chord Nation suite, part 1 Funny Money (fragment)

Nikola Kołodziejczyk Orchestra

www.chordnation.pl

film director: Piotr Wronka [email protected]

produced, composed and conducted by Nikola Kołodziejczyk

lead trumpet Benny Brown

trumpet Erwin Żebro

trumpet Oskar Torök

trumpet Štěpánka Balcarová

trombone Paweł Niewiadomski

trombone Marcin Wołowiec

trombone Mateusz Łysoń

bass trombone Mateusz Mendyka

flute Ewelina Serafin

soprano Szymon Kamykowski

alto Dawid Główczewski

english horn Mariusz Pędziałek

tenor Przemysław Florczak

tenor Marek Pospieszalski (with solo)

bass clarinet Grzegorz Grzeszczyk

vln Ala Sierpińska

vln Leszek Dzierżęga

vla Wojciech Witek

cello Marta Sołek-Młynarczyk

vocal Gabriela Rudawska

vibraphone Bartek Pieszka

and Stryjo (www.stryjo.com):

double bass Maciej Szczyciński

drums Michał Bryndal

piano Nikola Kołodziejczyk

Polskie Radio Katowice, May 2011

cinematographer, video mixing and editing by Piotr Wronka

mixed and mastered by Błażej Domański

mixing assistants: Karol Mańkowski, Kamil Biedrzycki

recorded by Błażej Domański

recording assistant: Jacek Dyrda, recording engineering students supervised by Tomasz Tamborski

thanks to Ed Partyka, Piotr Turkiewicz, Jarosław Zawadzki and Studio 7 Piaseczno, Aga Kiepuszewska, Małgorzata Warszawska, Witold Kołodziejczyk, Piotr Kołodziejczyk, Piotr Damasiewicz, Gerd Hermann Ortler, Karolina Skrzyńska, Mateusz Pliniewicz, Maciej Obara, Jakub Skowroński, VIP Catering, Katering Katowice, Polskie Radio Katowice, Academy of Music in Katowice

premiere performance of this music was commissioned by Jazztopad

Festival 2010 (www.jazztopad.pl) and Filharmonia Wrocławska (http://www.filharmonia.wroclaw.pl)