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wrote that it "has become a bellwether for European jazz, with critics pointing to how this album marked a shift away from the dominant American approach with the emergence of a specific European aesthetic". Similarly,
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author Mikey IQ Jones stated: "Komeda's compositions and arrangements are beautiful and complex, and it's the rare epochal album whose power is still potent from the first listen through to its thousandth".
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magazine stated that it "is one of the most important contributions to the shaping of a European aesthetic in jazz composition", placing it at number 85 in the list
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as a milestone in the history of jazz. It was voted the best album of all time by readers of the Polish
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consists of three long tracks, all written by Komeda. "Kattorna" (meaning "female cats" in
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The Penguin Jazz Guide: The History of the Music in the 1001 Best Albums
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have been repeatedly reinterpreted by Polish jazz musicians, including
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The music combines many disparate elements, including
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Studio album
Krzysztof Komeda
Warsaw Philharmonic
Genre
Avant-garde jazz
post-bop
Label
Muza
Producer
Krzysztof Komeda
jazz
Krzysztof Komeda
Polish
Swedish
movie of the same name
Henning Carlsen
Swedish
modal playing
free jazz
improvisation
forms
tone clusters
aleatoric
avant-garde
timbre
articulation
Romantic music
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings
The Penguin Guide to Jazz

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