NOVI SINGERS: Pay tribute

NOVI SINGERS
Os NOVIS, nossos velhos conhecidos, dispensam apresentação. Sua biografia está em postagens anteriores.
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NOVI SINGERS
This amazin Polish vocal group is an old friend of us. Their biography is already avaiable in prior postages.
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MINHA OPINIÃO: o repertório deste álbum me fez viajar de volta no tempo, até o início dos anos 70. O compositor e arranjador Jimmy Webb era a grande novidade e comparece com duas de suas músicas mais marcantes (Mac Arthur Park e By the time I get to Phoenix). "Fool on the hill" era o grande sucesso dos Beatles naquela época e "Wave", do Maestro Soberano, também estava na ordem do dia. Os NOVIS estavam no início da carreira e, por isso, os arranjos deste álbum ainda não têm o padrão de qualidade e excelência que viriam a ter no futuro. Álbum raro e importante, principalmente para os admiradores deste formidável grupo Polonês.
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NOVI SINGERS: Pay tribute

NOVI SINGERS
Ewa Wanat
Janusz Mych
Waldemar Parzynski
Bernard Kawka

TRACKS/FAIXAS:
Side 1:
01) MacArthur Park
02) Masquerade
03) Does Anyone Really Know
04) Fool On The Hill
05) Hello Dolly
Side 2:
01) Wave
02) One Note Samba
03) By The Time I Get To Phoenix
04) Misty
05) Got To Get You Into My Life

ALEKSANDER MAZUR & NOVI SINGERS: BACHARACH

NOVI SINGERS BACHARACH
Este álbum me foi cedido por Hélio "Scarpia" Tavares, a quem agradeço mais uma vez pela sempre prestimosa colaboração.
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EDITORIAL REVIEWS (From the Artist)
"There is this epidemic of labeling, everybody labels everybody - seems some people can't sleep at night without having everything neatly classified. I don't give a damn if somebody says I sing church music, and somebody says it's military marches and somebody says it's nursery rhymes, and somebody else wonders if it's jazz. (...) I don't care what it's going to get called, I just want it to be good."
(Bernard Kafka of the Novi Singers in: Jazz Forum 1/1971)
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MINHA OPINIÃO - Pela reação do Bernard Kafka, muita gente não gostou do que ouviu...Eu não gostei: dos Novi Singers eu sempre espero muito mais do que essa
presença opaca, pálida, gélida e insossa. Suas vozes se agregam, como mero complemento dos arranjos instrumentais de Aleksander Mazur - por sua vez bem "basiquinhos" e sem graça. Vocalizam sem palavras e sem o brilho habitual. Guardadas as devidas (e ainda bem que, enormes) proporções, até parecem os vocalistas de Ray Coniff (argh...) A despeito do excelente repertório, a participação dos Novis Singers neste álbum deslustra um pouco a sua esplêndida biografia. E não é por acaso que seu nome ocupa lugar secundário no título do álbum. :-(
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ALEKSANDER MAZUR & NOVI SINGERS: BACHARACH

NOVI SINGERES
Ewa Wanat - Vocal
Waldemar Parzynski - Vocal, Piano
Janusz Mych - Vocal, Flute
Mieczyslaw Litwinski - Vocal

ALEKSANDER MAZUR QUARTET
Aleksander Mazur - Hammond Organ, Tenor Saxophone, Clarinet
Josef Gasior - Trumpet
Zbigniew Zietara - Bass Guitar
Andrzej Krupinski - Drums
Jozef Gawrych - Percussion

TRACKS/FAIXAS
01 - The Look Of Love
02 - It Doesn't Matter
03 - Bacharach Medley
04 - (They Long To Be) Close To You
05 - Do You Know The Way To San Jose?
06 - Are You There? (With Another Girl)
07 - Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head

NOVI IN WONDERLAND

NOVIS SINGERS
Este formidável quarteto vocal é de Varsóvia, POLÔNIA. Foi formado em 1964 por Bernardo Kawka, violinista apaixonado por jazz, que reuniu um grupo de grandes músicos para, corajosamente, enfrentar as restrições imposta pela tenebrosa ditadura polonesa que proibia que se tocasse jazz, "música decadente, contrária aos interesses socialistas...(esses ditadores, ou melhor: políticos em geral, são sempre iguais: uns imbecis). Inicialmente o NOVIS se exibia apenas no rádio; depois expandiu seus horizonte, participando de festivais de jazz na Europa, obtendo o merecido reconhecimento. Na minha opinião é um dos melhores conjuntos vocais europeus de todos os tempos.
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NOVI SINGERS
In late 1964 a young graduate of the Warsaw Conservatory, Bernard Kawka, fascinated by the music of Bill Evans, whom he had met in Scandinavia, decided to devote himself to jazz. In the Conservatory he found others who shared his enthusiasm for this music. They considered that the best way of expressing their jazz ideas would be to use their own voices. Such decision led to the creation of Novi Singers, a mixed vocal quartet with a truly incredible sound. In my opinion, NOVIS is one of the best European vocal groups, of all time.
(CB)
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MINHA OPINIÃO - o NOVIS é um quarteto vocal misto, formidável. Fortemente influenciado pelos "Les double six", "Lambert, Hendricks & Ross" e GENE PUERLING, cantam exclusivamente jazz, direto, na veia, sem concessões. Neste álbum, destaca-se a presença do grande trumpetista IDREES SULIEMAN. UM LUXO!

(*)Este álbum foi produzido pelo grande crítico de jazz alemão, JOACHIN E. BERENDT, uma grande autoridade na matéria, e autor de um livro fundamental: O JAZZ, DO RAG AO ROCK, editado no Brasil, há alguns anos, leitura obrigatória para os aficionados.
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NOVI IN WONDERLAND
Label: SABA
Released: 1968
Producer: Joachin E. Berendt

NOVI SINGERS
Bernard Kawka
Ewa Wanat
Janusz Mych
Waldemar Parzynski

VOCAL ARRANGEMENTS
Bernard Kawka (tracks: A1, A4, B3, B5) ,
Waldemar Parzynski (tracks: A2, A3, B1, B2, B4)

PERSONNEL
Piano - Adam Matyszkowicz
Saxophone [Alto] - Zbigniew Namyslowski*
Trumpet - Idrees Sulieman
Bass - Roman Dylag
Drums - Billy Brooks

TRACKS/FAIXAS
1. The second side
2. Alice in Wonderland
3. Satin Doll
4. A foggy day in London Town
5. Li´l darling
6. Kulfon
7. I don´t know
8. Apartment under the roof
9. Secret life

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Novi Singers - Blues in A

NOVI SINGERS - RIEN NE VAS PLUS

NOVI SINGERS
Os NOVIS, nossos velhos conhecidos, dispensam apresentação. Sua biografia está em postagens anteriores.
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NOVI SINGERS
This amazin Polish vocal group is an old friend of us. Their biography is already avaiable in prior postages.
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MINHA OPINIÃO: O belíssimo arranjo de CANTO TRISTE de Edu Lobo e Vinícius de Moraes nos dá a exata dimensão do universo musical deste extraordinário conjunto vocal polonês. Coisa muito séria.
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NOVI SINGERS - RIEN NE VAS PLUS

NOVI SINGERS
Ewa Wanat
Janusz Mych
Waldemar Parzynski
Bernard Kawka

TRACKS/FAIXAS
1.Oh woman (W.Parzynski - A.Wiecko)
2.The look of love (B.Bacharach - H.David)
3.My own revolution (B.Kawka - A.Wiecko)
4.The fool on the hill (J.Lennon - M.Mccartney)
5.Second sight (B.Kawka)
6.Blue moon (R.Rodgers - l.Hart)
7.Like a dream in the sky (B.Kawka - A.Wiecko)
8.Rien ne va plus (B.Kawka - A.Wiecko)
9.Canto triste (E.Lobo - V. Moraes - Eng.: Lani Hall)

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NOVIS SINGERS: GO RIGHT - JAZZ FROM POLAND

NOVIS SINGERS
(CB, de Haya - Holanda)
Embora já tenha visto e ouvido alguns conjuntos vocais holandeses de boa qualidade - (Quink Vocal Ensemble e Velvet Voices, por exemplo) - deles não possuo nenhum álbum para postar. (E, infelizmente, não vou dispor de tempo para procurar nas lojas de CD´s.) Por isso estou postando outro CD dos NOVISINGERS - afinal a Polônia está logo ali - quase na esquina, e assim fica tudo em casa...
Abraços para todos os amigos.
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NOVI SINGERS
NOVI were the first to make a break-through in the tradition of Polish vocal groups, a tradition which goes back to the very popular singers in the thirties - The Dan Choir. It was then a great stride forward as Polish jazz vocalists had been lagging behind in comparison with our instrumental music. Elsewhere, in the world there was then consistent progress in this field. New groups were being formed - the phenomenal American Lambert-Hendricks-Ross Trio, the French Les Double Six group and many others. In modern
jazz, human voices began playing the parts of instruments, giving rise to a new school of "instrumental" singing. This kind of singing calls for special qualifications. The performer must be simultaneously a vocalist, instrumentalist and jazzman capable of playing improvised parts. Now the NOVI band can do all these things. The members of the band are educated musicians who have graduated from the Warsaw Advanced Music School: Ewa Wanat - violinist; Janusz Mych - flutist; Waldemar Parzynski - sound supervisor and percussionist; their leader, Bernard Kawka - violinist. They are all real jazzmen. Their name NOVI (the new ones) has a special meaning for them. It not only suggests something new, but is made up of the initials of the English words New Original Vocal Instruments. And this is so indeed. The NOVI use their voices like instruments. They can give the monosyllables of their vocalises any sound and articulation they wish.
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JAZZ FROM POLAND - COMPILATION
Along with some instrumental tracks, this compilation showcases the musical output of the Polish vocal group Novi Singers (New Original Vocal Instruments) until then, a well-kept secret for the Western-European countries and the rest of the world. With their absolute technical perfection and their musical approach, the vocal jazz ensemble Novi Singers were at the time often compared to Lambert-Ross-Hendricks or Les Double Six.
(Excerpt from liner notes bv Daniel W. Best, Feb. 1999 - Edited by CB)
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MINHA OPINIÃO - este álbum reúne o NOVISINGERS e um formidável grupo de músicos de Jazz da Polônia, tocando e vocalizando temas inéditos. È jazz straight-ahead direto, na veia, sem concessões, bem no melhor estilo do que faziam, na época, 'Hendricks, Lambert & Ross' ou 'Les Double Six'. Esta tradição de vocalises ainda permanece viva nos dias atuais, através do 'New York Voices' e do 'Manhattan Transfer'. Lá em baixo você vai encontrar os detalhes de quem-é-quem, em cada faixa. Vale a pena conferir.
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NOVISINGERS: Jazz From Poland 1963-75

TRACKS/FAIXAS:
1. Jerzy Milian - Wsrod Pampasow - 1975
2. Novi Singers - Torpedo - 1969
3. Novi Singers - All Together - 1969
4. Andrej Kurylewicz Quintet - Nyamaland - 1963
5. Novi Singers - Misfit - 1969
6. Novi Singers - My Own Revolution - 1970
7. Jazz Carriers - Mala Septyma (Minor Seventh) - 1973
8. Aleksander Mazur Quartet & Novi Singers - It Doesn't Matter - 1975
9. Novi Singers - Christine - 1965
10.Novi Singers - Next, Please - 1967
11.Andrej Kurylewicz Quintet - I Won't Stay With You - 1967
12.Novi Singers - Five, Four, Three - 1974
13.Jerzy Milian - Choreographic Sketches - 1975
14.Zbigniew Namyslowski Quartet - Fair Lola - 1966
15.Wojciech Karolak - Why Not Samba - 1974
16.Novi Singers - The Runway - 1974
17.Novi Singers - Oh, Woman - 1973
18.Novi Singers - Jeansy - 1965

PERSONNEL (identified by track number):
(1/13).Wsród Pampasów & Choreographic Sketches
Teresa Sikora - vocals
Jan Opyrchal - vocals
Piotr Kaluzny - piano,harpsichord
Jerzy Jarosik - flute
Jerzy Milian - vibraphone
Mieczyslaw Dancewicz - horn
Polish Radio and Television Orchestra of Popular Music, Katowice

(2/3).Torpedo & All Together
Novi Singers (Bernard Kawka, Ewa Wanat, Janusz Mych, Waldemar Parzynski) - vocals
Czeslaw Bartkowski - drums
Józef Gawrych - bongos
A. Makowicz - piano
J. Sikorski - bass guitar
M. Urbaniak - guitar

(4).Nyamaland
Andrzej Kurylewicz - trumpet
Jan "Ptaszyn" Wróblewski - tenor sax & flute
Wojciech Karolak - piano
Tadeusz Wójcik - bass
Andrzej Dabrowski - drums

(5).Misfit
Novi Singers (Bernard Kawka, Ewa Wanat, Janusz Mych, Waldemar Parzynski) - vocals
Cz. Bartkowski - drums
A. Makowicz - piano
J. Sikorski - bass guitar

(6/17).My Own Revolution & Oh, Woman
Novi Singers (Bernard Kawka, Ewa Wanat, Janusz Mych, Waldemar Parzynski) - vocals
Jan "Ptaszyn" Wróblewski - conductor
Zbigniew Namyslowski - alto sax
Janusz Muniak - alto & tenor sax
Tomasz Szukalski - tenor sax
Waldemar Kurpinski - baritone sax
Stanislaw Cieslak - trombone
Stanislaw Mizeracki - trumpet
Tomasz Stanko - trumpet
Wlodzimierz Nahorny - piano
Marek Blizinski - guitar
Wojciech Bruslik - bass guitar
Janusz Stefanski - drums

(7).Mala Septyma (Minor Seventh)
Zbigniew Jaremko - tenor/sopran sax
Henryk Miskiewicz - alto sax
Pawel Perlinski - piano
Marian Komar - bass
Zbigniew Kitlinski - drums
Józef Gawrych - percussion

(8).It Doesn't Matter
Novi Singers:
Ewa Wanat - vocals
Waldemar Parzynski - vocals, piano
Janusz Mych - vocals, flute
Mieczyslaw Litwinski - vocals
Józef Gawrych - percussion
Aleksander Mazur Quartet:
A. Mazur - hammond, tenor sax, clarinet
Józef Gasior - drums
Zbigniew Zietara - bass guitar
Andrzej Krupinski - percussion
arranged by Waldemar Parzynski

(9).Next, Please
Novi Singers (Bernard Kawka, Ewa Wanat, Janusz Mych, Waldemar Parzynski) - vocals
Andrzej Matyszkowicz - piano
Janusz Kozlowski - bass
Janusz Sidorenko - guitar
Jerzy Bartz - percussion

(10).I Won't Stay With You
Wlodzimierz Nahorny - alto sax
Andrzej Kurylewicz - valve-trombone, rebela
Jacek Ostaszewski - bass, tambourine
Janusz Kozlowski - bass
Sergiusz Perkowski - drums
Wanda Warska - vocals
composed by Andrzej Kurylewicz

(11/16).Five, Four, Three & The Runway
Novi Singers (Ewa Wanat, Janusz Mych, Waldemar Parzynski) - vocals
Jan "Ptaszyn" Wróblewski - conductor
W. Karolak - hammond & fender piano
Marek Blizinski - guitar
Pawel Jarzebski - electric bass
Czeslaw Bartkowski - drums

(12).Fair Lola
live recording, line-up unknown

(15).Why Not Samba
Jan "Ptaszyn" Wróblewski - conductor
H. Rzezniczek, Z. Przybyszewski, E. Walczak, A. Zoladkiewicz - reeds
T. Stanko, B. Debek, T. Szostak - trumpet
A. Piela, St. Cieslak, J. Jarczyk - trombone
W. Karolak - hammond & fender piano
C. Bartkowski - drums
W. Kowalewski - percussion
Novi Singers (Ewa Wanat, Janusz Mych, Waldemar Parzynski) - strings & vocals

(9/18).Jeansy & Christine
Novi Singers (line-up not documented)

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NOVI SINGERS - BOSSANOVA

NOVIS SINGERS
Este formidável quarteto vocal é de Varsóvia, POLÔNIA. Foi formado em 1964 por Bernardo Kafka, violinista apaixonado por jazz, que reuniu um grupo de grandes músicos para, corajosamente, enfrentar as restrições imposta pela tenebrosa ditadura polonesa que proibia que se tocasse jazz, "música decadente, contrária aos interesses socialistas... (esses ditadores são sempre iguais: uns imbecis). Inicialmente o NOVIS exibia apenas no rádio; depois expandiu seus horizonte, participando de festivais de
jazz na Europa e o resto é história.

(*)No fundo essas ditaduras acabaram prestando um bom serviço à música: no Brasil, para driblar a censura, os nossos compositores se esmeraram na produção de uma safra imbatível de composições. Lá na Polônia, deu azo ao aparecimento dos Novi Singers, enquanto na Alemanha os craquérrimos "Comedian Harmonists" passavam a bola entre as pernas de Adolf Hitler.
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ALBUM COMMENTS
The NOVI called their first record "Bossa-Nova". This should not be taken literally. It reflects only the general climate of the record on which the NOVI display the whole range of their possibilities. Only in some pieces is the theme introduced in the form of a bossa-nova and then followed by standard swing improvisations, big-band riffs or swing tutti. The group is accompanied by instrumental sets ranging from double-bass with percussion, the full section, flute, vibraphone, to a group of string instruments. The band is made up of jazz musicians: Andrzej Matyszkowicz, piano; Janusz Kozlowski, double-bass, Janusz Sidorenko, guitar and Jerzy Bartz, percussion. © Jan Borkowski (original line notes from the album's back cover)
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NOVI SINGERS
NOVI's biography is short and brilliant.
In late 1964 a young graduate of the Warsaw Conservatory, Bernard Kawka, fascinated by the music of Bill Evans, whom he had met in Scandinavia, decided to devote himself to jazz. In the Conservatory he found others who shared his enthusiasm for this music. This led to the formation of the band. They considered that the best way of expressing their jazz ideas would be to use their own voices. An obscure Polish jazz vocal quartet with a truly incredible sound. According to a Polish critic, " During communist times, jazz was treated by many as a form of escape from socialist realist aesthetics, imposed from above, and an important area of freedom in the mainstream of official cultural life subject to censorship. In those times, playing and listening to jazz was an expression of rebellion and protest against the hypocrisy that was the order of the day in communist Poland." It's a pity this escapism didn't produce more such groups as Novi Singers. This is what I was able to dig up on them on the Internet: "NOVI's biography is short and brilliant. In late 1964 a young
graduate of the Warsaw Conservatory, Bernard Kafka, fascinated by the music of Bill Evans, whom he had met in Scandinavia, decided to devote himself to jazz. In the Conservatory he found others who shared his enthusiasm for this music. This led to the formation of the band. They considered that the best way of expressing their jazz ideas would be to use their own voices. At first they appeared only in the radio, becoming very popular with listeners. Then they took part in the annual international festival Jazz Jamboree in Warsaw in 1965 and since that time have been appearing at similar events both at home and abroad. The rest is history.
(Souce: several sites on the Net, edited by CB)
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MINHA OPINIÃO - o NOVIS é um quarteto vocal misto, formidável. Fortemente influenciado pelos "Les double six", "Lambert, Hendricks & Ross" e GENE PUERLING, cantam exclusivamente jazz, direto, na veia, sem concessões. Curiosamente, assimilaram logo no início as nuances da bossa-nova e suas vocalises, em determinados momentos, nos lembram os blocos dos 'CARIOCAS'. As músicas são todas composições próprias e, embora desconhecidas de todos nós, soam muito agradáveis à primeira audição. Muito bom este álbum do Novis Singers, dos quais ainda tenho material para
novas postagens.
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NOVI SINGERS - BOSSANOVA
Recorded: June 1967, at Polskie Nagrania - Studio 12, Warsaw, Poland

NOVI SINGERS
Ewa Wanat
Bernard Kafka
Janusz Mych
Waldemar Parzynski

PERSONNEL:
Andrzej Matyszkowicz - Piano
Janusz Kozlowski - Bass
Janusz Sidorenko - Guitar
Jerzy Bartz - Drums

TRACKS/FAIXAS:
01 - Brownie
02 - Cichy Wieczór (A Calm Evening)
03 - Zólty Ston (The Yellow Elephant)
04 - Trzeba Wracac (One Must Return)
05 - Nastroje Matich Misiów (Teddy Bears' Moods)
06 - Dwa Po Dwa (Two Times Two)
07 - Nastepny Prosze (Next, Please)
08 - Pyzate Stoneczniki (Chubby Sunflowers)
09 - Jak Powrócic Do Tej Chwili (How Could We Return To The Past Moment)
10 - Mini Dziewczyna (The Mini Girl)
11 - Bariera Uczuc (The Barrier Of Feelings)
12 - Gogo
13 - Król Salomon (King Salomon)
14 - Tanczace Orzechy (Dancing Nuts)

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