Zbigniew Namysłowski

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Artist

The alto saxophonist Zbigniew Namysłowski was born in Warsaw in 1939. He first played piano, cello and trombone before switching to the saxophone. With his quartet he recorded Lola in London in 1964, for Decca: one of the first Polish jazz records to be released in the West. In 1965 he played on Krzysztof Komeda's Astigmatic. Namysłowski wove Polish folk dances into his music, such as the oberek and the kujawiak, often in unusual metres of five or seven beats. You can hear that on Winobranie (1973) and Kujaviak Goes Funky (1975). He continued to perform well into old age and died in 2022.

Listening

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  Piękna Lola, kwiat północy · Zbigniew Namysłowski Modern Jazz Quartet, 1964
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  Winobranie / Jak nie ma szmalu to jest łaź · Zbigniew Namysłowski, 1973
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  Kujaviak Goes Funky · Zbigniew Namysłowski Quintet, 1975

Discography

Studio albums

• 1973Winobranie
• 1975Kujaviak Goes Funky
• 1977Zbigniew Namysłowski
• 1984Reggae for Zbiggy
• 1993Joy
• 1997Dances
• 2001Air Condition

Other work

• 1964Lola
• 1965Astigmatic · with Krzysztof Komeda

In School of Rock

The chapters, maps and magazine stories of School of Rock are currently available in Dutch only.

• Jazz Map^NL Map
• After Hours: Session 3^NL Reader
• After Hours: Session 4^NL Reader

Mentioned in other articles

• Polish jazz GenreLater the trumpeter Tomasz Stańko, the saxophonist Zbigniew Namysłowski, the violinist Zbigniew Seifert and the duo Michał Urbaniak and Urszula Dudziak also became known outside Poland.

See also

• Hard bop