Polish jazz

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

In Poland around 1950, jazz was regarded as suspect American music. Musicians played in cellars and in people's homes, and listened at night to Willis Conover's jazz broadcasts on the Voice of America. After Stalin's death the door opened. In August 1956 the first Polish jazz festival took place in Sopot, and in 1958 the Jazz Jamboree began in Warsaw, one of the oldest jazz festivals in Europe. The pianist Krzysztof Komeda sought a European sound of his own, with Slavic melodies, slow tempos and plenty of space. From 1965 the record series Polish Jazz appeared on the state label Polskie Nagrania. Later 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. The trio of the pianist Marcin Wasilewski has continued that line since the 1990s.

Listening

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  Requiem dla Scotta LaFaro · Andrzej Trzaskowski Quintet, 1965
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  Man of the Light · Zbigniew Seifert, 1976
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  January · Marcin Wasilewski Trio, 2008

In School of Rock

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

• Jazz Map^NL Map
• The Dream Factory: Film Reel 3^NL Reader
• After Hours: Session 4^NL Reader

See also

• Leszek Możdżer
• Andrzej Trzaskowski Quintet
• Marcin Wasilewski Trio
• Bebop
• Cool Jazz and modal jazz
• Hard bop
• Free jazz