Best and top solo piano jazz album of 2020 is Lonely Shadows by Dominik Wania.
Wania, best known for his work with Maciej Obara, recorded this Manfred Eicher-produced affair in Lugano last November in the Auditorio Stelio Molo studio. Wania was born in Sanok, Poland, and studied at the Academy of Music in Kraków and later the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.
Wania's record is intense, an interior vision. When individual passages transcend the technical virtuosity on display the record soars most. Wania leaves footprints in the mind that somehow tap an imaginative response inside us initially and lingeringly. Lonely Shadows has the ability to shine a stronger light on frank statement. You get that clarity and infinitive resource.
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