Tracklist:
CD1 (06024 987 703 3 7)
Z plyty "Workoholic", 1982:
01. Bokra [7:09]
02. Cantabile In H-Moll [6:01]
03. Kill The Raven [3:48]
04. Quasi String Waltz [3:21]
05. Workoholic [4:31]
06. Seekuh [3:10]
07. Primary [5:12]
08. Gutan Dance [5:32]
Z plyty "New Romantic Expectations", 1983:
09. Berolina Foxtrott [7:01]
10. Progresje Jesieni [4:51]
11. Singoholic [6:08]
12. Niezdara [4:58]

CD2 (06024 987 703 4 4)
Z plyty "Koncert w Buffo", 1984:
01. Relaxing At Schwartbuck [6:03]
02. Para Martha [4:24]
03. New Romantic Expectation [10:55]
04. Gutan Dance [6:29]
05. Piosenka o WFG [8:16]
06. Cantabile In H-Moll [6:16]
Z plyty "String Connection Trio", 1984:
07. Folk Trio [6:51]
08. Engine [7:43]
09. Country Funk [5:46]

CD3 (06024 987 703 5 1)
Z plyty "String Connection", 1987:
01. From A Small Eastern Town [4:26]
02. Pulsatilla Alpina [4:24]
03. Back-in-Nang [6:11]
04. We Miss You - Pamieci Z. Seiferta [5:34]
05. Body Animation [4:58]
06. Giam-Giam [4:29]
07. Passacaglia For Aniel [6:42]
08. Conno [4:17]
Z plyty "Bizzaramente", 1988:
09. Montreal Ballad [5:19]
10. Tower Of Old Power [5:58]
11. Bizzaramente [6:31]
12. Sentimental Deja-vu [5:10]
13. Red Autumn Trees [5:08]
14. Paysage A La Balthus 2 [3:45]

Redakcja albumu: Anna Jurksztowicz
Projekt graficzny: Elzbieta Wisniewska
Portret na okladce: Edward Dwurnik

QUOTE

String Connection is the most important Polish jazz band of the eighties. Their playing was great and their shows drew crowds. They were neither first, nor were they the last, but then, in the 1980's, they were the only ones. Jazz musicians usually grow up to be stars - like Ptaszyn and Namyslowski then or Stanko now - as the popularity of jazz rises. With String Connection the reverse was true - they made their name in a time when jazz in Poland was neither a revolt, nor a novelty, nor even a fad. The 1980's began with a carnival of solidarity. Even though we had yet to experience martial law and the round table before moving into our own home, the change occurred already then. New things were needed, new jazz and new jazz musicians among them. Or maybe old jazz musicians were needed less - those from the Katakumby club, employed part time by Polish Radio and travelling to the Caribbean every other year. Or prophets with an Afro-American fixation. Newcomers were needed in a new time ruled by ambitious, competent, super-civilized, well-dressed, career-oriented professionals with sophisticated taste and a penchant for entertainment and getting rich. Jazz for the Second Japan, or, in other words, for the Third Republic of Poland. String Connection was established and led by Krzesimir Debski - a national composer today just like Mr Moniuszko, except more prolific. Krzesimir writes music to everything that moves, especially on the screen - large and small alike. He somehow endured when he found out he was not going to write the music to Wajda's "Pan Tadeusz" - especially that he lost that gig to no less than Wojciech Kilar himself. But seeing the job of writing music to "Quo Vadis" done by someone else was more difficult for him to bear. So he announced that he is going to write "Quo Vadis" - an opera! And this he did, as well as music to 60 movies of varying calibre, including such superproductions as "Ogniem i Mieczem", "W Pustyni i w Puszczy" and "Stara Basn", wildly popular TV shows, such as "Na Dobre i na Zle", 40 orchestral and chamber works, inclu-ding 2 symphonies, 3 oratorios and a dozen or so concertos and countless jazz numbers and songs, some of which had become huge hits. In the year 1980 Krzesimir was already 27. He'd had a degree in composition and conducting from the Music Academy in Poznan for some years now and experienced his first success as violinist in Warsztat, his student band. He was also employed as a session musician in the cabaret formation Tey. He was actually quite famous as a violinist, listed in one breath right after Seifert and Urbaniak. This even resulted in hypotheses of an alleged natural inclination for Poles to play jazz on the violin. That year, a renowned German critic and producer invited him to the famous New Jazz Meeting workshop in Baden Baden, this time around called The String Summit. Other strings at this summit included the violinists John Blake and Didier Lockwood and the guitarist Christian Escoude. The music was recorded and released on the album "One World in Eight" ("One in Eight" ???) by the German company MPS. In 1980 Krzesimir Debski was an ambitious, competent, super-civilized, well-dressed professional with sophisticated taste and a penchant for entertainment and getting rich. String Connection began as yet another incarnation of Warsztat - the medium and vehicle for Debski the violinist, composer and leader. It still featured Krzysztof Przybylowicz on drums and Zbigniew Wrombel on electric bass, but Janusz Skowron on synthesizer was a newcomer. Things accelerated at the turn of 1981 and 1982, when Przybylowicz was replaced for a time by Zbigniew Lewandowski, Wrombel was replaced (by no means for good) by Krzysztof Scieranski and the band was joined by tenor and alto sax player Andrzej Olejniczak. Scieranski came from the Cracow-based Laboratorium, a star of the fusion scene in the previous decade. Olejniczak came from Sun Ship, a very popular group, rooted in the post-hard bop tradition of Charles Lloyd and Billy Harper. These origins, and a combination of sax and violin - as rare in modern jazz as a solitary violin, became the key to the band's success. A violin and tenor sax can sound like a trumpet and tenor sax - the classic modern jazz combination, or like an alto and tenor sax. A soprano alongside a violin, how-ever, is capable of sounding like a viola or a second violin. This flexible duet of virtuoso frontmen sounded great playing in unison and in counterpoint. Add to this a shifting and turning jazz-rock rhythm section made up of electric bass, synth and drums playing in eight, overpowering in its inevitability, Debski's charming compositions and the inspired races of the soloists and you will end up with the original five-piece String Connection. It was this band that completely won over audiences in Poland and established a European beach-head in the form of a prize at the international jazz competition in Hoeilaart in Belgium in 1983 and ensuing invitations to European festivals. The quintet played for three years, until Olejniczak left Poland in 1984. For the remaining four years, which made up the majority of the band's history, String Connection usually played as a trio and sometimes as a quartet. Still, most people, myself included, associate String Connection with that first band. The reunion tours in 1989, 1999 and 2002 were played by the quintet with Olejniczak - today the number one sax player in Spain, of all places. It was this five-piece that recorded "Workoholic" in 1982 - its first record. Three others followed, out of a total of nine albums making up the band's discography. Nine albums (six in Poland) in the band's eight-year history makes for a pretty good track record. Poland's revolution in the eighties did not spare the record industry. The monopoly of state-owned (and one church-owned) record companies crashed. Three of String Connection's records, including their debut, came out on the Polish Jazz Association's Poljazz label, which abandoned the limited record club formula and began selling its records in stores - thus becoming Poland's first full-fledged independent record company. Another of the band's favourite labels was Polton, the first private record company in Poland. Fan demand began to rule the record market, not regulated access to pressing plants. For the artists, their records were no longer official proof of prestige of days gone-by, like medals for victory in battle. They became a means of communicating with the audience and, obviously, a commercial product. String Connection's spectacular success in concerts was immediately apparent in record sales, and the band stood above other jazz groups in the amount of attention paid to their recorded material. The music in this package covers the time from 1984 to 1988 - the period of greatest popularity of the band, its leader and its soloists, if annual polls in Jazz Forum magazine and other honours are any indication. The package thus contains only the quintet's third and last record ("Live"), also known under the title "Jazz", recorded live in 1984. As usual, the band was in excellent condition, running smoothly like a well-oiled automatic gear box, with its group ethos developed in the space of more than two years of playing Debski's original compositions transformed from an initially stale Brecker Brothers formula into an individual style, unique mechanics and sound - a trademark of the band's class. The band plays three hits on the record, including maybe their greatest - Cantabile in H moll. Their style solidified, they gained class and their bravado wasn't lost. Jazz is an art form based on bravado. It is an art of playing nice, simple tunes by genius musicians who only have fun when playing while walking on a tightrope and juggling their hats. In order to play jazz you need to have power to spare - in order to use it, as often as not, for comic effect. The New Orleans minstrels, Armstrong, Cab Calloway, Dizzy Gillespie and Madman Monk all fooled around on stage to support their artistry. String Connection were masters of the jazz clown act. They engaged in musical races without buckling up, holding the wheel with their legs, making silly faces, gestures and striking funny poses. One luminary had this to say: "They play like everybody else, but they jump higher." The audience loved it - the easy-going, offhand style served up with a wink. I am reading now what I wrote at the time: "The true power and magic of String Connection lay in the euphoric, elemental joy of making music. The musicians did not try to solve the classic dilemma of whether jazz is art or maybe merely entertainment. For them, like for Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Miles Davis, it was always the art of entertain-ment." Happy jazz or yuppie jazz? The Debski-Przybylowicz-Scieranski period opens with the record titled "Trio", a contemporary of "Live/Jazz". It was also released by Polton in 1984. Except for a brief time when the band was a quartet featuring Andrzej Jagodziński on piano and French horn (released in 1986 as "Live in Warsaw" on the Poljazz label), the trio remained the core of String Connection and the band's develop-ment is the development of that trio. It would be that much more interesting to find out how it all started. Unfortunately, probably for lack of room, this package only features side two of the "Trio" LP That's better than nothing, especially that the trio's playing is top notch. Krzesimir on the violin climbs to heights unseen, the freshness and joy of playing are obvious and they rock out like SBB. The trio undoubtedly had been together for a while, they were just missing a master plan. Krzesimir thus picked up a new instrument - the synthesizer. This record was merely a calling card, but the next, released in 1985 on Wifon and titled (or untitled?) "String Connection" revealed the enormity of the change. For the band which made communicability its motto and whose sound was hitherto made by a rare combination of instruments and personal talent the change was risky, but the leader, for whom his band was, after all, a workshop (i.e. "warsztat") could not resist the challenge. A synthesizer in a band is more than just another instrument. It's a window to a different world, a world of virtual music, for which the natural breeding ground is not the band but the recording studio. This second album of String Connection as a trio provides an impressive overview of its ability to explore this world. The trio plays au naturel, with the leader on violin ("Conno"). They play electrified with the leader on piano ("Back-ln-Nang"). The engineering is modest, as if harking back to their previous, debut album, but fusion arrangements akin to Joe Zawinul determine the album's overall character ("Body Animation"!). One finds quasi-sonata forms in "Giam-Giam" and quasi-symphonic material in "Passacaglia for Aniel", where the synthesizer plays not just individual voices, but whole sections and choirs. This album also reveals another characteristic trait of String Connection's yuppie jazz playing - its "goodness". The music is "good", meaning well done, done to alleviate stress, to be pleasant and friendly. User friendly. This is a very specific aspect of quality, because in most cases true mastery and lots of hard work are essential in order to create something which is friendly, alleviates stress and is a source of pleasure, especially in an art form in which the artist is tempted to show off how difficult is this thing the artist is doing. Music which is easy on the listener saves him this drama and uses mastery to hide the difficulty rather than expose it. This is the music of String Connection - from design, through the raw materials to the execution. Rationalized and optimized, tuned for generating maximum pleasure in the listener. Easy to listen to, difficult to write, not easy to play. Like a poem, expressive even when read casually because it was born of an advanced, intensive creative process. The music had been like that from the very beginning, but the effect is most apparent on the record on which Krzesimir spared himself no hardship and no industry to make it beautiful and friendly. Never before had he such total control and unlimited resources. With this record he achieved, still at the helm of his band, an orbit from which there was no return. That same year his song won the competition in Opole and shortly after he won the anniversary modern composition competition of his local, Poznan section of the Polish Composers' Union. It was then that he also wrote soundtracks for his first two movies. The days of Krzesimir Debski the violinist in a jazz band, and of String Connection being that jazz band, were almost over. They may have been almost over, but they lasted for quite some time. In three years String Connection experienced another incarnation in the form of a quartet and released three albums, the last two in Germany. During that time Dębski wrote soundtracks to eight more movies, including "Kingsajz". The last record, "Bizzaramente", released in 1988 by Berlin's Pool Music concludes this package. String Connection enjoyed international concert fame, they played all the major European festivals. They also performed in the United States and Canada and made regular tours of the western European club circuit. What they lacked, though, was the one, most important thing for a band - a record contract with international distribution. Their foreign discography consists of three titles: an anthology with releases by musicians participating in the international competition in Belgium which they won in 1983, the very enigmatic "Der Walzer Vom Weltende" released in 1986 and their swan song -"Bizzaramente", released in 1988, by which time the trio had ceased performing in concert. The producer of that record clearly emphasized the "goodness" aspect which String Connection had mastered to perfection and which in the meantime became fashionable under the name "smooth-jazz" in the UK and "soft-jazz" in the States. Spare arrangements were beneficial for the record, though Krzesimir's digital orchestra does manage at times to growl like good old Weather Report ("Tower of Old Power", "Paysage a la Balthus 2"), rearing its head from under highly aerodynamic arrangements. There are at least three other hits on the record, including the title track and there is the stylish playing of Dom Urn Romao and Peter Szalay. A classic of the genre, a record still listed in modern "smooth-jazz" anthologies, still available in good European record stores and everywhere on the web. Required reading for ambitious, competent, super-civilized, well-dressed, career-oriented professionals with sophisticated taste and a penchant for entertainment and getting rich. (Tomasz Tluczkiewicz) KRZESIMIR DEBSKI THE BEST COMPOSER Composer by education, arranger, conductor; bass guitarist; rock musician and violinist, pianist, also a jazz musician and a "practicing classical musician". Musician of the Year in the 1983 and 1984 "Jazz Forum" polls. His first piano teacher was his father, a well-known and respected Poznan musician. In 1972-1977 Debski junior studied conducting and composition at the State Higher Music School in Poznan. His graduation work was the Fantasy for Organ and Great Symphonic Orchestra. He never lost touch with classical music, having recently received a commission to arrange the songs of Arnold Schonberg, supposedly for... Liza Minnelli! His debut as a pianist was in the amateur group the Hazzards. He performed together with Maszyna Rytmiczna at the Youth Contemporary Music Festival in Kalisz in the year 1972. He came to know jazz a few years later, learning to play the violin from Don "Sugarcane" Harris, Jean-Luc Ponty and Stephane Grappelli. In 1975 he played in Bogdan Jarmolowicz's Quintet. He stayed around for a longer time in Warsztat, where he also made his debut as a com-poser. At the Jazz on the Odra festival in 1978 he won 2nd prize in the instru-mental category. That same year he was a member of Orkiestra Dnia Osmego. Life condemned him to eighteen months' labour in the famous "Tey", though as a teen, he had performed and acted in Poznan cabaret formations anyway. Directly from there Debski moved to Kazimierz Jonkisz's group in the year 1979, providing him with several worthy compositions ("Tiritaka" also became the title of the album on which it appeared). We all know what happened later: the famous String Summit in Baden Baden in the year 1980 (with Didier Lockwood, among others), the jazz-funk String Connection, the happy rock-like Di Rock Cimbalisten, a multitude of performances at the most important jazz festivals in Europe and beyond and finally, an on-going and animated interest in writing songs. Hit songs, but not easy to hum by any means, to recall the infa-mous and controversial example of "Diamentowy Kolczyk" [Diamond Earring]. Called "Harold Lloyd of Polish jazz", he could easily contribute to the repertoire of many of our rock groups: from Klincz to Lady Pank, from Tilt to Dzem. He does not only compose, but also writes words. Words for singing and melorecitation (Drunk Funk Punk, Do Widzenia Panstwu [Good Bye, Ladies and Gentlemen]). Unfortunately(?) classical music absorbs him so much that he manages to find time only to compose songs. That's better than nothing. Krzesimir Debski's best compositions include "Komutacje [Commutations]", "Tiritaka", (Kazimierz Jonkisz's quintet), "Czekajac na uderzenie w talerz" [Waiting for the Cymbal Crash], "Pieciola" (Warsztat), "Cantabile in h-moll", "Workoholic", "Quasi string Waltz", "Berolina Foxtrott", "New Romantic Expectation", "Body Animation" (String Connection), "Two Steps to Pop", "Dziecko naszego stulecia" [Child of Our Century], "Toliro" (Di Rock Cimbalisten), "Plynie samotnosc [Loneliness Flows]", "Jak tam na szczycie schodow [What's Up at the Top of the Stairs]" (Krystyna Pronko), "Czas nas uczy pogody" [Time Teaches Us to Be Serene] (Grazyna Lobaszewska), "Diamentowy kolczyk" [Diamond Earring] (Anna Jurksztowicz). Polskie Stowarzyszenie Jazzowe [The Polish Jazz Association] has also honoured Debski the composer by publishing in 1983 a book of his jazz works, titled "Workoholic". As a jazz musician, this is how Krzesimir Debski fared "Jazz Forum" popularity polls: Musician of the Year and Composer - 1st in 1984 and 1983, 2nd in 1982; Arranger - 2nd in 1984 and 1983, 3rd in 1982; Violinist - 1st in 1982-1984. Discography: albums recorded and released outside of String Connection and Di Rock Cimbalisten: 1980 - "Tiritaka" by Kazimierz Jonkisz's quintet and "String Summit": One World in Eight (West Germany); 1982 - "Krzak'i" by Krzak and "Matko, ktora nas znasz..." [Mother, Thou Knowest Us] by Stanislaw Sojka; 1983 - "Paczka" by Krzak. KRZESIMIR DEBSKI This is what renowned jazz critic Ernst Berendt wrote in the West German "Jazz Podium" following one of String Connection's first concerts: "the tradition of Coltrane is heard clearly in the music of the band made up of some fine musicians. The one that stands out among them is the young violinist from Poznan, Krzesimir Debski." Berendt's admiration led to Debski's participation in the prestigious "New Jazz - Ring Meeting '81" and the recording of the album "One in Eight" - the Poznan violinist's first serious release, recorded together with renowned jazz musicians (Didier Lockwood, John Blake and Wolfgang Dauner). This was the turning point in Debski's career. Until now he was part of many domestic music initiatives, composing songs for Studio Gama and for the Poznan Polish Radio and Television Orchestra, concentrating on the festival stages of Jazz on the Odra and Jazz Jamboree or performing occasionally with Warsztat. In 1981 String Connection was born. The name immediately came to stand for the new, Polish school of jazz. For Krzesimir Debski (born in 1953), a graduate of the Poznan School of Music, a true jazz career began, confirmed not only by awards from "Jazz Forum" magazine, but above all by the renown which Debski and String Connection have achieved on the stage at home and abroad. The group's career is unique and cannot be compared to anything else. A jazz band gained the favour of thousands of fans. Jazz records made by Debski, Wrombel and Przybylowicz are received like records made by rock stars. Debski himself has become a jazz superstar of the eighties. In the prestigious "Jazz Forum Top Poll" it was he who has been receiving the title of Musician of the Year and String Connection was voted Group of the Year. Debski's jazz writing has for many years dominated the other musical genres in which the composer is also very active. After all, Debski's compositional success in the field of pop music (such as hits written for Anna Jurksztowicz), his music for films, theatre, ballet, musical experiments ("Di Rock Cimbalisten") and the very important recent attempts connected with contemporary classical music are also well worth noting. (Nurt no. 10, 21.10.1987) POLISH JAZZ MUSICIANS BEST IN BRUSSELS Polish jazz triumphed at the Jazz Hoeilaart '83 International Contest which took place on 18 September in Brussels. First place from among 51 young jazz bands was awarded to the 1982 Polish Group of the Year - String Connection! The group consists of its greatest personality, leader and master violinist Krzesimir Debski, Andrzej Olejniczak on tenor sax, Janusz Skowron on piano, Krzysztof Scieranski on bass guitar and Krzysztof Przybylowicz is the expert of the drums. Let us recall that String Connection is a new jazz band formed barely two years ago by five mature musicians and composers. Krzesimir Debski's group has a very busy schedule. They are leaving in a few days for a tour of West Germany, playing clubs and a radio broadcast concert in Cologne, then Jazz Jamboree '83, All Souls' Day Jazz Meeting in Cracow, the Jazz Festival in Bratislava and concerts in Vienna. Another Polish jazz group - Heavy Metal Sextet was awarded 2nd prize at the Brussels Festival and Waldemar Szymanski, its trumpet player received an individual distinction. (Kurier Polski no. 186, 21.09.1983) BEST BAND - STRING CONNECTION Quintet, quartet and recently jazz trio. The group was formed in 1981 as the continuation of the joint work of violinist Krzesimir Debski, alt and tenor sax player Andrzej Olejniczak and pianist Janusz Skowron in Kazimierz Jonkisz's quintet. The concept was simple: "We live in sad times, so we must play something happy for people who come to our concerts with problems on their minds, we must give them some joy". So they did. Bassist Zbigniew Wrombel and drummer Krzysztof Przybylowicz made it possible for the new group to debut in a lineup which was not hitherto possible: String Connection accepted into its ranks Krzysztof Scieranski and Zbigniew Lewandowski. A successful performance at Jazz Jamboree '81 was the beginning of the band's unceasing tour of all the major European festivals, including Debrecen (Hungary), Nuremberg, West Berlin, Le Mans, Paris, the Hague and also on the other side of the ocean, in Montreal, Canada. Following the Jazz on the Odra '82 festival in Wroclaw, "Jazz Forum" wrote: "The reformed String Connection was a revelation. The name is justified in Krzesimir Debski's and Krzysztof Scieranski's captivating displays. It turned out that the leader is not only an uncommon composer and instrumentalist, but also an uncommon showman. When combined with Scieranski, known for his inclination to goof around, the result was not only great music, but also a great show. The group's performance in its new lineup must have been considered the most important event of the Jazz on the Odra festival." Orthodox jazz fans must have reacted with great surprise to the birth of Di Rock Cimbalisten - String Connection's stylistic alter ego. In terms of chops they were flawless. Musically - interesting, as the most careful of critics would say. The sound - well, here was something to be amazed about, as the band's repertoire included tasty examples of classic styles and mannerisms considered archetypal. From country to reggae, from punk to new wave, from jazz rock to the avant-garde - Di Rock Cimbalisten played literally everything. They were a living encyclopedia of serious pop music, and especially of jazz and rock. Rock? Well, yes. The musicians from String Connection are not afraid of being measured up against rock musicians. At Rockowisko '83 in Lodz the band performed alongside TSA, Exodus, Rezerwat and Lady Pank. Initially they elicited whistles from the audience, but in the end this changed to well-deserved applause. The band's every performance proves beyond all doubt that playing music can be fun not only for the audience, but also for the musicians. All well and good, but for this you need the talent and imagination of Krzesimir Debski (violin, synthesizers, announcements, spiritual supervision), Krzysztof Scieranski (bass guitars) and Krzysztof Przybylowicz (drums). In the "Jazz Forum" poll String Connection came in first in the "Jazz Group" category from 1982 to 1984. Andrzej Olejniczak was the third soprano and tenor sax player in 1984 and Krzysztof Scieranski without question was and continues to be the first bass guitarist. STRING CONNECTION'S SUCCESS IN BELGIUM AND WEST GERMANY Currently the most popular jazz group - String Connection perform successfully abroad. Recently the trio (Krzesimir Debski, Krzysztof Przybylowicz and Krzysztof Scieranski) played at the international festival in Kongsberg, Norway. The event was attended by a host of stars of syncopated music, including the famous American Weather Report. On the seventh and eighth String Connection will be playing at the international festival in Nuremberg. In the nearest future the band intends to record another album. Their plans also include a short holiday, a tentative appearance at the Sopot festival and then a tour of Scandinavia (Sweden, Norway and Finland) and a trip to West Germany for a new round of concerts. (Zycie Warszawy no. 5, 12.07.1984) STRING CONNECTION AT THE PHILHARMONIC The Polish Jazz Association and the Wroclaw Philharmonic welcome jazz lovers next Sunday at 5 and 8 p.m. to the first "Jazz at the Philharmonic" concert in the 85/86 season. The concert will be played by the most popular jazz group in Poland - String Connection. The lineup for the past two years has been: Krzesimir Debski - violin and keyboards, Krzysztof Scieranski - bass guitar and Krzysztof Przybylowicz - drums. The band plays jazz for everyone, performing while having fun with the audience. After an enthusiastic reception at Jazz Jamboree '85 we will enjoy the opportunity to spend a pleasant evening with our number one export group at the philharmonic. (Slowo Polskie no. 238, 7.11.1985) "JAZZ AT THE PHILHARMONIC" - STRING CONNECTION WITH ALBERTO ZUCKERMANN Here is another concert in the series commenced at the end of last year at the State Philharmonic in Czestochowa. The featured performers will be String Connection and Alberto Zuckermann. String Connection was formed at the beginning of the 1980's by Krzesimir Debski. The current lineup also consists of Andrzej Jagodzinski, Zbigniew Wrombel and Krzysztof Przybylowicz. The group represented Poland at practically all the major jazz events, including "Jazz at the Hague". They have performed in Canada, the United States and West Germany and have appeared at the Jazz Jamboree festival. Members of the band top the Jazz Forum popularity polls. The latest album by String Connection was released in November of 1986 and is called "Live in Warsaw". The guest soloist - Alberto Zuckermann is a Mexican pianist and the cultural attache at the Mexican Embassy in Poland. This interesting concert in the "Jazz at the Philharmonic" series is hosted, as usual, by Jerzy Pacuda and will take place on 21 February at 6 p.m. Tickets are 400 zlotys in the State Philharmonic box office. (Zycie Czestochowy, no. 39, 16.02.1987)

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August 2009, 18:59 Debski's String Connection / CD2 Used drive  : PLEXTOR DVDR  PX-810SA  Adapter: 1  ID: 0 Read mode              : Secure Utilize accurate stream : Yes Defeat audio cache      : Yes Make use of C2 pointers : No Read offset correction                      : 48 Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out          : No Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes Delete leading and trailing silent blocks  : No Null samples used in CRC calculations      : Yes Used interface                              : Installed external ASPI interface Used output format : Internal WAV Routines Sample format      : 44.100 Hz; 16 Bit; Stereo TOC of the extracted CD     Track |  Start  |  Length  | Start sector | End sector     ---------------------------------------------------------         1  |  0:06.01 |  6:03.28 |      451    |    27703          2  |  6:09.29 |  4:24.32 |    27704    |    47535          3  | 10:33.61 | 10:55.69 |    47536    |    96729          4  | 21:29.55 |  6:29.37 |    96730    |  125941          5  | 27:59.17 |  8:16.50 |    125942    |  163191          6  | 36:15.67 |  6:16.00 |    163192    |  191391          7  | 42:31.67 |  6:51.39 |    191392    |  222255          8  | 49:23.31 |  7:43.09 |    222256    |  256989          9  | 57:06.40 |  5:46.34 |    256990    |  282973  Range status and errors Selected range     Filename E:\INCOMING\EAC\Debski's String Connection - CD2.wav     Peak level 100.0 %     Range quality 100.0 %     Test CRC 6B7B1AED     Copy CRC 6B7B1AED     Copy OK No errors occurred End of status report -------------------- Exact Audio Copy V0.99 prebeta 3 from 28. July 2007 EAC extraction logfile from 29. August 2009, 19:31 Debski's String Connection / CD3 Used drive  : PLEXTOR DVDR  PX-810SA  Adapter: 1  ID: 0 Read mode              : Secure Utilize accurate stream : Yes Defeat audio cache      : Yes Make use of C2 pointers : No Read offset correction                      : 48 Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out          : No Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes Delete leading and trailing silent blocks  : No Null samples used in CRC calculations      : Yes Used interface                              : Installed external ASPI interface Used output format : Internal WAV Routines Sample format      : 44.100 Hz; 16 Bit; Stereo TOC of the extracted CD     Track |  Start  |  Length  | Start sector | End sector     ---------------------------------------------------------         1  |  0:00.00 |  4:26.32 |        0    |    19981          2  |  4:26.32 |  4:24.25 |    19982    |    39806          3  |  8:50.57 |  6:11.41 |    39807    |    67672          4  | 15:02.23 |  5:34.05 |    67673    |    92727          5  | 20:36.28 |  4:58.44 |    92728    |  115121          6  | 25:34.72 |  4:29.23 |    115122    |  135319          7  | 30:04.20 |  6:42.05 |    135320    |  165474          8  | 36:46.25 |  4:17.72 |    165475    |  184821          9  | 41:04.22 |  5:19.05 |    184822    |  208751        10  | 46:23.27 |  5:58.58 |    208752    |  235659        11  | 52:22.10 |  6:31.49 |    235660    |  265033        12  | 58:53.59 |  5:10.47 |    265034    |  288330        13  | 64:04.31 |  5:08.56 |    288331    |  311486        14  | 69:13.12 |  3:45.43 |    311487    |  328404  Range status and errors Selected range     Filename E:\INCOMING\EAC\Debski's String Connection - CD3.wav     Peak level 100.0 %     Range quality 100.0 %     Test CRC 584A8DA7     Copy CRC 584A8DA7     Copy OK No errors occurred End of status report

Extractor: Exact Audio Copy v0.99pb3
Codec: Monkey's Audio 3.97
Compression: High Lossless
Total Time: 61:47, 62:52, 72:58
Ripper: SurowyTato