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Book Review

Komeda: A Private Life In Jazz

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Komeda: A Private Life In Jazz Magdalena Grzebałkowska 456 Pages ISBN: 978 1 78179 945 1 Equinox Publishing2020 That it has taken over fifty years for the first English-language biography of Krzysztof Komeda to appear reflects the pianist/composer's underground status outside his native Poland. Yet no history of European jazz would be complete without mention of this modernizing figure, whose career burned briefly but brightly from 1956, when he launched his modern jazz ...

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I nuovi percorsi del Polish Jazz

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Una nuova generazione si fa avanti con determinazione sulla scena del Jazz polacco e molti trovano accoglienza nel catalogo della For-Tune. L'etichetta si propone ambiziosamente di “salvare dall'oblio i fenomeni musicali di natura eterna." Non si rivolge esclusivamente al jazz o agli artisti polacchi e il suo catalogo ospita anche lavori di William Parker, Mary Halvorson, Anthony Braxton, Charles Gayle e più recentemente Bobby Previte (Gone , 2016) e Samuel Blaser con Michael Blake (Made in China--Trasmissions , 2016).

Book Review

Il Jazz-Film

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Il Jazz-Film Guido Michelone 349 Pages ISBN: 978-8862318747 Arcana Jazz 2016 Dopo quasi vent'anni, Guido Michelone ripubblica e amplia il suo fondamentale manuale sui rapporti tra cinema e musica afro-americana, l'unico in lingua italiana di tale spessore e completezza. Lo studio analizza quelle opere in cui le tematiche musicali sono parte attiva della dimensione iconica, tralasciando quasi del tutto il jazz usato come colonna sonora in film di tutt'altro argomento. Il ...

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Interview

Maciej Lewenstein: Quantum Mechanics of Polish Jazz

Read "Maciej Lewenstein: Quantum Mechanics of Polish Jazz" reviewed by Cezary L. Lerski


Maciej Lewenstein was born in 1955 in Warsaw. He is a theoretical physicist and currently an ICREA professor at Institut de Ciències Fotòniques (ICFO) in Castelldefels near jny: Barcelona, Spain. He has written more than 500 scientific papers and is the recipient of many international and national prizes. Next to theoretical physics his other passion is music and jazz in particular. First edition of his new English-language book Polish Jazz Recordings and Beyond, was published in 2014 ...

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Krzysztof Komeda: Poet of the Piano

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To this day, the influence of Polish composer and pianist Krzysztof Komeda (1931-1969) can be felt in the works of contemporary artists like Marcin Wasilewski and, of course, in the music of his former trumpeter, Tomasz Stanko. It isn't too much to say that Komeda transformed the landscape of European jazz by the way he re-conceptualised the idea of jazz-composition and worked inventively with the relation between music and image, but he did it in his own quiet way and ...


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