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Adam Makowicz

Born: August 18, 1940

Adam Makowicz - jazz legend, master of improvisation, piano virtuoso. European "Jazz Forum" magazine voted Adam a "Number One Jazz Pianist" six years successively. Decorated with the Officer's Cross of Merit of the Republic of Poland and many other important and respected acknowledgments, he has recorded several dozens of albums and performed in the world's best concert venues, playing with the world's top musicians. Most recently Adam Makowicz joined the illustrious group of most influential polish emigrants in the 400 years history of the USA.
Makowicz was born in Czech Silesia to Polish parents

Tomasz Stańko: Polish Radio Sessions 1970-91

by Kevin Poindexter
February 24, 2026

In post-World War II Poland, jazz served as an act of defiance against the state, a resistance to the cultural restraints imposed on society. With its improvised nature and swinging rhythms, it stood in direct opposition to the rigid structure of socialist society. Where jazz relies on individual improvisation as a form of expression, socialist society ...

Polish Radio Sessions 1970-91

By Tomasz Stańko

Label: POLSKIE RADIO
Released: 2025
Track listing: Cats; Wilderness; Stress; Ballad; Lullaby from "Rosemary's Baby"; Wooden Music, pt. 2; Wooden Music, pt. 1; Piece for Diana; Placebo; Poacher; Stella by Starlight; Countdown; Giant Steps; Castle of Mist; Bluish; Few Shades of Blue, parts 1-4; First Free Etude; Second Free Etude; Third Free Etude; Almost Gama I; Now A; We; Airfield; Magic Time; Euforila II; Asmodeus; Eagle-Owls; Almost Gama II; Rue de la Tour; The Two First, the Third and a Few Others; Almost Black; My W.S.B. Friend; Trumpet One; Bass One; Mr DD; Babylon Samba; Purple Liquor; Hey!; End Jam

Makowicz & Medyna New York Flavors

By Adam Makowicz

Label: For Tune
Released: 2025
Track listing: Alice in Wonderland; All The Things You Are; Blue Monk; Body and Soul; Caravan; Cherokee; Do Notin' Till You Hear From Me; Get Happy; I Love You; Moonglow; My One And Only Love; My Romance; Small Fry; When Lights Are On.

Tomasz Stańko: Desperado - An Autobiography

by Angelo Leonardi
December 14, 2023

Tomasz Stańko: Desperado, An Autobiography Tomas Stańko con Rafał Księżyk 358 Pagine ISBN-13 978 180050 2222 Equinox Publishing 2022 Edito in prima edizione polacca nel 2010, il libro-intervista di Tomasz Stańko è ora pubblicato in lingua inglese dalla britannica Equinox che ha rispettato meticolosamente il testo originale, aggiornando la ...

Instrumental Duos

by Karl Ackermann
April 20, 2021

The early days of jazz were not always harmonious. Converted dance orchestras often sounded like unbalanced acoustic junkyards; a single violin, cornet, trombone, clarinet, tuba, drums, banjo, and piano, all fighting for attention. The piano was meant to be the glue holding the shrill and boisterous elements together. In 1921 a prodigy pianist named Zez Confrey ...

Invisible Man: Willis Conover and The Jazz Hour

by Karl Ackermann
April 30, 2019

Willis Conover stood with a cordoned off pool of reporters and photographers, being kept at arms-length from celebrities and dignitaries on the White House lawn. There was no table assigned to him at Bill Clinton's 1993 celebration of the fortieth anniversary of the Newport Jazz Festival though Conover had been involved with George Wein's project from ...

Culture Clubs: Part IV: When Jazz Met Europe

by Karl Ackermann
March 5, 2018

The Geography of Jazz--When Jazz Met Europe In 2004 Maureen Anderson, a researcher at Illinois State University contributed a dissertation to the journal, African American Review, titled The White Reception of Jazz in America. Ostensibly, her article deals with stories published in high profile periodicals and journals from 1917 and into the 1930s, written by white ...

Maciej Fortuna / Krzysztof Dys: Tropy

by Karl Ackermann
January 27, 2014

It remains largely unrecognized that the Polish jazz culture predates Louis Armstrong's “invention" of modern improvised jazz. As early as 1923, Polish jazz musicians were touring Eastern Europe in the company of Chicago and New Orleans Dixieland players. The American perspective of Polish jazz is principally defined by trumpeter Tomasz Stanko, violinist Michal Urbaniak and pianist ...

Blue Skies

Featuring the music of Adam Makowicz
Duration: 4:57
November 7, 2009