1. You Can Come To Me (4:15)
2. Priceless Cure (4:09)
3. Z Rozpaczy Blues (4:54)
4. Nie Wiadomo (4:14)
5. Delicate Flower (2:58)
6. The Shadow Age (4:12)
7. A Lady Wants To Forget (4:49)
8. Dotyku Motyl (3:54)
9. Heavy Rain (4:23)
10. I Had A Chat (4:17)
11. Out Of Control (4:55)
12. Rozwazna Czy Romantyczna (4:46)
13. Today Girls Don't Cry (4:17)

Beata Przybytek – vocals
Beata Bednarz – vocals (12)
Bogusław Kaczmar – piano, electric piano
Tomasz Kałwak – keyboards, synthesizers, programming
Paweł Tomaszewski – Hammond B-3 organ (1, 2, 3, 5, 9)
Damian Kurasz – acoustic and electric guitars
Jakub Chmielarski acoustic guitar (13)
Adam Kowalewski – bass (2, 4, 13)
Robert Szewczuga – bass (1, 3, 7,9)
Andrzej Święs – bass (5,10,11)
Paweł Dobrowolski – drums (5,10,11)
Filip Mozul – drums (1, 3, 7, 8, 9)
Arek Skolik – drums (2, 4, 13)
Sławek Berny – percussion
Marek Podkowa – tenor saxophone (3, 8, 9)
Sebastian Sołdrzyński – trumpet (3, 8, 9)
Mariusz Mączka – baritone saxophone (3, 9)

This is the long anticipated fifth album by Polish singer / songwriter Beata Przybytek. It presents twelve original songs composed by Przybytek, nine of which feature English lyrics by Alicja Maciejowska, two feature Polish lyrics by Dariusz Dusza and one features Polish lyrics by Grzegorz Wasowski. There is also a bonus track (lucky thirteen) written by Polish poet Andrzej Poniedzielski and guitarist / composer Jakub Chmielarski. The recording of the album lasted for almost two and a half years, spans several recording studios and features some of the best Polish Instrumentalist, many of them associated with Polish Jazz. Keyboardist Tomasz Kalwak is again in charge of the arrangements and production and other musicians involved include keyboardists Boguslaw Kaczmar and Pawel Tomaszewski, guitarists Damian Kurasz and the a/m Jakub Chmielarski, bassists Adam Kowalewski, Robert Szewczuga and Andrzej Swies, drummers Pawel Dobrowolski, Filip Mozul and Arek Skolik, percussionist Slawomir Berny, saxophonists Marek Podkowa and Mariusz Maczka and trumpeter Sebastian Soldrzynski. Vocalist Beata Bednarz guests on one track.

About five years ago the previous album by Przybytek ("I`m Gonna Rock You") landed accidently on my desk and my enthusiastic review expressed my delight and joy experienced while listening to it, heralding her as one of the great hopes of the Polish vocal scene, despite the fact that she was almost completely unknown at the time. After a long wait it is even more delightful to hear that my "discovery" proved to be spot on and Przybytek delivered another masterpiece, not only on the Polish scale, but surely on a world scale as well. There are only a handful of other singer / songwriters active today who are able to write such wonderfully heartfelt songs and deliver them with such passion, conviction and seductive magnetism. Each and every one of these songs is an absolute gem, with no weak moments on the entire album.

Although rooted in Jazz, Przybytek made a very conscious and in retrospect astute decision to move towards Soul, Rhythm and Blues and sophisticated Pop, which suit both her warm, sexy voice and obviously also her musical inclinations better than the Jazz idiom she started with. It takes a lot of intuition and self-confidence to make decisions like that, which in Przybytek's case paved the way for her spectacular success. She truly "found herself" perfectly on this album, which directly projects on its quality, making it as "perfect" musically as albums get.

Of course Przybytek's vocals are more polished than on her earlier recordings, luckily not destroying her natural vocal qualities, which are still convincing and heartbreaking. Although I prefer her singing Polish lyrics (as usual in my case) her delivery of the English lyrics are spotless and completely natural. The instrumental work by all the musicians involved is absolutely stunning, as expected. My personal favorites are the organ parts played by Tomaszewski, who is superb as always, but the overall level of performances is simply extraordinary.

This is obviously one of the best Polish albums released in 2017, regardless of what other critics may say. Over the years I have completely lost confidence in the Polish music awards scene, including the "Fryderyki", which have become a complete farce, but if any Polish album deserves the title of album of the year 2017, this is it! Przybytek is the epitome of talent and professionalism, which sadly are not in high esteem any more.

Personally I wish to thank you Beata for fulfilling my belief in you, for writing such beautiful songs, for singing them so exquisitely and for making this dark, sad world a better place, even if only for some fifty six minutes and twenty two seconds ;) Go Women! ---adambaruch.com

Poprzednia płyta Beaty Przybytek, "I’m Gonna Rock You" z 2013 roku przyniosła jej nagrodę "Mateusza" Trójki, nic więc dziwnego, że artystka nie chciała obniżać poprzeczki i nad jej następczynią pracowała kilka lat. I choć wydana właśnie "Today Girls Don’t Cry" brzmi jak album dopracowany, to jednak nie "przepracowany". A jazzowi czy nawet tematom około-jazzowym, które w obecnej twórczości Przybytek przeważają, odrobina luzu zdecydowanie służy. Trudno tu oczywiście mówić o błędach, rzecz raczej w nie wycyzelowaniu.

Słychać, że praca nad płytą trwała parę lat, głównie w zróżnicowaniu materiału. Słyszymy tu dianokrallowe, dynamiczne i liryczne zarazem "Today Girls Don’t Cry", bluesa "Z rozpaczy", delikatny, bajkowy walczyk "Delicate Flower", w którym głosowi towarzyszy tylko fortepian. Akompaniament zespołu i jego skład słyszalnie się zmienia, więc na wewnętrzne urozmaicenie nie możemy narzekać. Dzięki odpowiedniej produkcji jednak - i tu ogromna zasługa Tomasza Kałwaka, znanego ze współpracy z, na przykład, Markiem Napiórkowskim - brzmi to ciekawie, a nie chaotycznie.

Czy to blues, czy to jazzowa solówka, czy latynoamerykański rytm rumby, wszystko otacza mgiełka subtelności i miękkości, sprawiająca, że każda kompozycja, jedna po drugiej, nachodzi na siebie miękko. Uzupełniają się wzajemnie i dopowiadają brakujące treści. "Today Girls Don’t Cry" może płynąć z głośników swobodnie godzinami, nie męcząc i nie nudząc. Zasługa w tym tak klasycznego podejścia do kompozycji i producenckiego dopracowania, jak i - last but not least - samego głosu Beaty Przybytek. Ten wielokrotnie porównywany przez recenzentów do Billie Holiday czy Dee Dee Bridgewater, niski, matowy i z delikatną charakterystyczną chrypką, jak subtelna klamra spaja wszystko to, co się pod nim dzieje. Frazy, akordy, instrumenty i rytmy. ---Kaśka Paluch, muzyka.onet.pl

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01.Cryin' Through The Night [04:43]
02.As [05:00]
03.Have A Talk With God [04:41]
04.All In Love Is Fair [05:00]
05.Isn't She Lovely [05:52]
06.Lately [05:16]
07.My Eyes Don't Cry [04:49]
08.Summer Soft [04:34]							play
09.You Will Know [04:45]
10.You Are The Sunshine Of My Life [03:38]		play

Beata Przybytek - vocals
Dorota Zaziąbło - piano
Konrad Basiuk - bass
Ryszard Balcer - drums
Sławomir Berny - percussion (1-3, 5, 8)
Jacek Królik - guitar (3, 8)
Janusz Muniak - tenor sax (7)

Graduated Jazz Academy in Katowice (2004). She won Grand Prix at 29 International Vocal Jazz Contest in Zamosc, Poland in 2002. Right after that she recorded her first album called “You Don’t Know What Love Is”. The album took good reviews in media and jazz society including review and interview with Beata in Jazz Forum magazine (the most popular in Poland) so soon after she and her quintet started to play concerts all over Polish jazz festivals ( Pomorska Jesien Jazzowa, Swidnickie Noce Jazzowe, Jazz w Teatrze Ateneum – Warszawa (featuring Jan Ptaszyn Wroblewski), Jazz w Lesie – Suleczyno, Podlasie Jazz Festival, Bielska Zadymka Jazzowa, Jazz Sessions – Gliwice, Glogowskie Spotkania Jazzowe, Jazz Forum – Olsztyn, Jazz Forum Festival – Warszawa and many more…) and jazz clubs as well. In February 2004 she recorded second album called “The Island” at the same recording studio in Radio Katowice. With both albums her music band started tour in Poland at the festivals and jazz clubs with great success. In February 2005 was invited to Nurnberg, Germany -Jazz at Cracow House and was also invited to Jazz en Nord Festival in Lille, France in December 2005. December 2005 studio session brought the third album called “Wonderland” with original interpretations of Stevie Wonder’s music. A few very famous musicians in Poland was invited for that session: Jarek Smietana – guitar, Janusz Muniak – ts, Slawek Berny – perc, Jacek Krolik – guitar. Since October 2007 Beata has taught students the base of jazz vocal technique at Jazz Academy in Katowice.

BEATA PRZYBYTEK jest absolwentka Wydzialu Jazzu i Muzyki Rozrywkowej Akademii Muzycznej w Katowicach (2004). W 2002 r. zostala laureatka I nagrody w konkursie 29. Miedzynarodowych Spotkan Wokalistow Jazzowych w Zamosciu. Jej kariera wokalna poczatkowo zaowocowa--a dwoma albumami - „You Don’t Know What Love Is” i „The Island” - nagranymi wraz z zespolem w Studio Koncertowym Radia Katowice, ktore zostaly entuzjastycznie przyjete zarowno przez krytykow jak i milosnikow jazzu. W grudniu 2005 r. w wytworni Not Two Records ukazal sie trzeci album pt. „Wonderland”, na ktorym wokalistka siega do tematow Stevie’go Wondera. W nagraniach goscinnie uczestniczyli czolowi muzycy polskiej sceny jazzowej: Jarek Smietana, Janusz Muniak, Jacek Krolik oraz Slawomir Berny. Beata Przybytek zostala zaproszona na wiekszosc wazniejszych polskich festiwali jazzowych (m.in. Bielska Zadymka Jazzowa, Miedzynarodowe Glogowskie Spotkania Jazzowe, Pomorska Jesien Jazzowa, Jazz Sessions w Gliwicach, Jazz Forum Jazz Festival, Jazz w Lesie w Sulenczynie, Podlasie Jazz Festival, Swidnickie Noce Jazzowe, Jazz na Kanapie w Olesnicy etc.) oraz zagranicznych (m.in. Jazz En Nord Jazz Festival w Lille, Francja). Od pazdziernika 2007 Beata wyklada w Instytucie Jazzu i Muzyki Rozrywkowej Akademii Muzycznej w Katowicach. „Ktos stwierdzil, ze od Przybytek glowa nie boli. To malo powiedziane – w glosie Beaty Przybytek naprawde mozna sie zakochac.(...)Cieply, czasem lekko zachrypniety, raz naturalnie czysty, bialy, innym razem sprawiajacy wrazenie stylowo-czarnego. Nigdy jednak zmanierowany! Taki, pokrotce, jest jej glos. Ale i to, zdaje sie, malo powiedziane...Bo o Beacie Przybytek nie nalezy czytac, ja trzeba po prostu uslyszec. Niezwykly glos musi nas dotknac i przeszyc.(...)Beata Przybytek to artystka w pelni dojrzala i spelniona. --- Tomasz Jakub Handzlik, „Gazeta Wyborcza”

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1. Kind of funny
2. Queen of Egypt
3. I'm gonna rock you
4. I will pay for the blues (dedykowane Amy Winehouse)
5. Political Fiction
6. Tonight for today
7. Be my ragman
8. P/L/A/S/T/I/C (Made in China)
9. Mr. Loverman
10. Catch your idea
11. Do me a favour
12. The pleasure is all mine
13. Take a nap
14. Good luck
15. That's it
16. Marylin (once upon a time)

Musicians:
Beata Przybytek - vocals
Damian Kurasz - guitar
Boguslaw Kaczmar - piano
Tomasz Kalwak - keyboards / arrangements
Toamsz Kupiec - bass
Adam Kowalewski - bass
Arek Skolik - drums
Krzysztof Dziedzic - drums
Filip Mozul - drums
Slawek Berny – percussion

his is the fourth album by the Polish vocalist Beata Przybytek and her debut as a singer / songwriter. After releasing three consecutive albums between 2003 and 2005, Przybytek took almost seven years to come up with this album, which presents sixteen songs written by her to lyrics (in English) by Alicja Maciejowska (thirteen songs) and her own (the remaining three songs). She is accompanied by a wonderful ensemble of gifted and sympathetic instrumentalists, which includes the keyboardist / arranger Tomasz Kalwak, who is responsible for the truly excellent and highly skilled musical settings created for her songs. Other players include guitarist Damian Kurasz, pianist Boguslaw Kaczmar, bassists Tomasz Kupiec and Adam Kowalewski, drummers Arek Skolik, Krzysztof Dziedzic and Filip Mozul and percussionist Slawek Berny. Several guest musicians also appear, among them trumpeter Piotr Wojtasik, vibraphonist Bernard Maseli, organist Jan Smoczynski and others.

Przybytek started her career as a Jazz vocalist, but her last album ("Wonderland"), which comprised entirely of songs by Stevie Wonder, saw her already flirting with Pop, Soul and Rhythm and Blues. This album, which focuses on her songwriting as much, if not more, as on her performances, takes her into new territory, which in a beautiful amalgam of Pop, Blues, Gospel, Soul and Jazz. The artistic level of her songwriting is formidable and these sixteen songs are all jewels in their own right, quite diverse and beautifully full of character. I must admit that at first hearing I could hardly believe my ears as I haven't heard such a sublime collection of new songs in a very long time.

The vocal performances are also first-class, somewhat similar to the mannerisms of Etta James / Amy Winehouse, but with a wonderfully warm tone and total control of timbre and expression. It's a pity she chose to sing in English as I personally am quite convinced that if she sang these songs in her native language the result would have been even more stunning. Well, one can't win them all. Still this is one of the best albums of its kind that I've heard in a very long time.

The instrumental parts are, as already mentioned, simply delightful. Each song gets quite a different treatment, which keeps the album changing mood and ambiance often, as well as the instrumentation. The guest musicians get to deliver their respective solo spots and it sure looks like a great time was had by all during the recording sessions.

This album is also a wonderful example of high quality music, which can be overtly accessible, without compromising even an iota of its intrinsic value. Every music lover should have a field day with this brilliant piece of music. Hats off, Beata! Silesia rulez again! ---Adam Baruch, polish-jazz.blogspot.com

Biała kobieta, obdarzona czarnym głosem - tak najkrócej możnaby scharakteryzować Beatę Przybytek, polską wokalistkę, pianistkę i kompozytorkę. Płyta "I'm gonna rock you", jest czwartą w jej dorobku. W jej głosie pobrzmiewają echa takich znakomitych tuz bluesa i jazzu jak Ella Firzgerald, Billie Holiday, czy - nieco bardziej współcześnie - Diany Krall i Amy Winehouse. Jej ekspresja wokalna, zdaniem dziennikarza Andrzeja Chojnackiego z Jazz Forum budzi skojarzenia z Urszulą Dudziak. Beata Przybytek skomponowała całość muzyki na swoją najnowszą płytę i są to kompozycje chwytliwe, wpadające w uchu i niemęczące, a aranżacje oszczędne,ale - gdy trzeba - wystarczająco bogate. Za te ostatnie odpowiada zresztą Tomasz Kałwak, współpracujący m.in. z Grażyną Auguścik, Mieczysławem Szcześniakiem, czy Dorotą Miśkiewicz i Krzysztofem Napiórkowskim - znanym Państwu z anteny Radia Kraków. Słuchanie "I'm gonna rock you" to jak podróż przez jazz, r'n'b, blues, soul... Gdzieniegdzie da się nawet usłyszeć brzmienia jakby wyjęte ze złotej ery swingu. To muzyka dla każdego, choć taka, która trafi także do dusz wyrobionych jazzowych słuchaczy, słowem: godna polecenia. Smacznego! ---radiokrakow.pl

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