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Slow the Band

Born: December 12, 1969

Slow the Band, a Poland based group of passionate jazz musicians fresh off of recent shows across Middle Europe, celebrates their first concert album, Live in Dresden, released May 2024.
To the surprise of its 2 founding members - guitarist Tomasz Kaczmarczyk and pianist Krzysztof Werminski - what started as a hobby musical adventure in 2010 has since turned into a serious fusion jazz project involving some of the finest Polish musicians around. The surprises continue with enthusiastic international reviews after each new release.
 

Jazztopad 2019

by Henning Bolte
February 15, 2020

Vincent Courtois Trio Witold Lutoslawski National Forum of Music, Mleczarnia Club Jazztopad Wroclaw November 21-24, 2019 On my arrival in Wroclaw, on the way to the reverend National Forum of Music (NFM), the first familiar face I met in the street was Mateusz Rybicki, a musician that has ...

HANG EM HIGH

HANG EM HIGH is band from Switzerland, Austria, and Poland and includes: BOND - Two string bass, live electronics; LUCIEN DUBUIS - baritone sax, bass & contrabass clarinets; and ALFRED VOGEL - drums, pots & pans, junk percussion. Three unique characters with no boundaries. Hot like melted iron, cool as Clint Eastwood. Call it low-western-rock jazz-ambient punk with live electronics, whatever… HANG EM HIGH, that’s what we call it.. Festivals & Appearances (2013-2016): Shapeshifter Lab BROOKLYN, USA (2013)
Ujbuda Jazz BUDAPEST, HU (2013)
Jazzmeile Thüringen JENA, DE (2014)
Jazztopad Festival WROCLAW, PL (2014)
Jazzfestival SAALFELDEN, AT 2014
Jazz Goes To Town HRADEC KRALOVE, CZ (2015)
BeJazz Transnational BERN, CH (2016)
Jazz Im Goethe Garten LISABON, P (2016)

Yola Wesolowska

Born: February 23, 1958

YOLA WESOLOWSKA - composer, singer, pianist, performer . She studied music at the University of Lodz, from which she graduated in 1980. Master's thesis written under the guidance of the great Polish music theorist Prof. Franciszek Wesolowski. She studied composition with prof. Bernard Pietrzak and classical singing with prof. Izabela Kobus. She completed postgraduate studies at the Academy of Music in Wrocław. Participation in competitions, festivals and concerts in Poland and abroad incl. Jazztoldtales Festival in Bologna, B. Okudzhava Festival in Moscow, Weimarrer Dreieck in Germany to name a few. As a composer collaborates with theatres incl

Kamil Abt

Kamil Abt is a Polish-Australian jazz guitarist, composer, band-leader and arranger. He is a graduate of the prestigious Elder Conservatorium of Music and has been performing internationally – in Australia, Japan and Europe – for over twenty years. His musical career started in Australia, in Steve Mooney’s hard bop quintet, “Fifth House”. It was there that he also led his own jazz formations: Mosholu Parkway, Jazzyowski and SpeciaL K, also working with musicians such as Adam Page, Daniel J. Ross, Constantinos Koutsouliotas and John Wilson. In Japan he worked in renowned alto saxophone player Hiroshi Yaginuma’s quintet as well as with the Atsushi Matsunaga quartet, while also leading his own quartet

Anna Rejda

Polish jazz vocalist, songwriter and improviser, Anna Rejda’s music features a sensual timbre of voice, impeccable phrasing and atmospheric sounds featuring instrumental arrangements.

Rejda played the accordion and French horn as a child, but decided that playing in a symphony orchestra was not her vocation. Studying the horn at the Academy of Music in Wroclaw, she was quickly appreciated for her natural vocal talent and passion for jazz, which she uses in her cooperation with Aleksander Mazur's Big Band and The Sound Office quartet.

Jazztopad 2017: Concerts In Living Rooms

by Martin Longley
January 17, 2018

Jazztopad 2017: Concerts In Living Rooms Various homes Wroclaw, Poland November 25-26, 2017 You, dear reader, might have been to the occasional house concert, growing in popularity as these events are: but have you ever attended three in one afternoon, six over two days? Such was the ...

Jazztopad Festival 2017

by Henning Bolte
December 13, 2017

Witold Lutoslawski National Forum of Music Jazztopad Festival Wroclaw, Poland November 21-26, 2017 Jazztopad is the yearly Jazz Festival of Poland's Witold Lutoslawski National Forum of Music in Wroclaw. Wroclaw is a vibrant, hip, internationally oriented city that never sleeps, a city with character, lots of peculiar neighbourhoods, ...

14. Jazztopad 2017

by Nazim Can Isik
November 29, 2017

Piotr Turkiewicz: Putting Wroclaw On The Jazz Map

by Ian Patterson
September 18, 2017

At just thirty seven years of age it's hard to believe that Piotr Turkiewicz has been pulling the strings of Jazztopad for almost a decade already. The festival, staged each November in the Polish city of Wroclaw, was already a few years old when Turkiewicz became Artistic Director in 2008, but under the canny stewardship of ...