Polish Jazz Podcasts - the History and the Current Events in Polish Jazz
7 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 3 years ago -Witamy or welcome to all you curious music lovers who have tuned to this podcast. We hope that you’ll join us on this journey. This podcasts season, first in the series, is hosted by Misia Lerska. The series investigates the jazz scene in Poland and focuses on the most important trends, events and artists of Polish Jazz. The first season of Polish Jazz Podcasts will focus the history of jazz in Poland and its most important figures. Each episode will be released with a Spotify playlist that references all of the music that we mention in the show. For the complete list of the episodes and corresponding playlists please go to polishjazz.com/podcasts
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Episodes
Zbigniew Seifert - the Man of the Light of Polish Jazz
June 23, 2021 03:00 - 13 minutes - 9.1 MBZbigniew Seifert (7 June 1946 – 15 February 1979) was a Polish jazz violinist and a visionary of jazz art.
Michał Urbaniak - the Miles Davis of Polish Jazz
March 24, 2021 06:00 - 16 minutes - 11.6 MBMichał Urbaniak is a Polish jazz violinist and saxophone player. Throughout the years of his artistic calling, all elements of his ingenious personality were always there: straight-ahead expression paired with Slavic ingenuousness, musical eclectics, contemporary articulation and the influence of Polish folk music, all flawlessly incorporated into the vocabulary of Black American Jazz. In his compositions, Urbaniak has always attempted to integrate the latest trends of world Jazz with ele...
Polish Jazz and politics
March 20, 2021 22:00 - 12 minutes - 8.87 MBThis show is about the intersection between Polish Jazz and politics. More specifically, it is about how Polish Jazz served as a proxy for a dreams of capitalism, opportunities, and quest for freedom in an oppressively decade of 1950's in Poland. The podcast tells the story how communist rulers of Poland were trying to suppress all forms of political and artistic freedom; and how Willis Conover's the Voice of America radio broadcasts, cosmopolitan underground culture of "bikiniarze", and...
Rodzice (my parents) ....and all that (Polish) jazz
March 20, 2021 22:00 - 24 minutes - 17.1 MBThe host of this podcasts series Misia Lerska, interviews her parents and talk with them about their encounters with Polish Jazz.
Tomasz Stańko - the Son of Polish Jazz
March 20, 2021 21:00 - 11 minutes - 8.25 MBTomasz Stańko is a Jazz trumpeter and composer, one of Europe's most revered jazz musicians. He was born on 11th July 1942, and died on 29th July 2018. As a jazz trumpeter and composer, Stańko is one of Europe's most original jazz musicians. Stańko's strengths include his distinct tone, a mood in his music often compared to the late 1950s Miles Davis' sound, with a Polish (Slavic) melancholy, which has developed into his trademark characteristic sound. Stańkoʼs standing in Polish jazz is i...
Krzysztof Komeda - The Father of Polish Jazz
March 20, 2021 20:00 - 10 minutes - 7.56 MBKrzysztof Komeda (born Krzysztof Trzciński; 27 April 1931 – 23 April 1969) is the single most important artist in the entire history of Polish Jazz and one of the founding fathers of European Jazz as we know it. Komeda was an incredible artist, a constantly searching poet and he could find ways of individual expression of jazz inside himself, in Slavic lyricism, and in the traditions of Polish music. He is widely credited as being one of the founding fathers of a uniquely European style i...
A Little History of Polish Jazz
March 14, 2021 17:00 - 11 minutes - 8.16 MBA Little Story of Polish Jazz in the 20th century as told from the perspective of Millennial / Generation Z Polish-American. Hosted by Misia Lerska. The first podcast in the series of Polish Jazz history, explores five decades of Polish Jazz and introduces the most important trends and musicians of each era.