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Andrzej Trzaskowski
Andrzej Trzaskowski (23 March 1933 – 16 September 1998) was a Polish jazz composer and musicologist. From the mid-1950s onward, he was regarded as an authority on syncopated music. Biography Early life and education Andrzej Trzaskowski was born in Krakow on March 23, 1933. He began playing piano at age four and founded his first jazz band, Rhythm Quartet. He attended Jan III Sobieski High School in Krakow and collaborated with prominent Polish jazz pianists. His paternal grandfather, Bronisław Trzaskowski, established some of the first girls' secondary schools in Poland. In the autumn of 1950, Trzaskowski was detained by the Polish Ministry of Public Security and imprisoned for 3 months, suspected of belonging to the underground group Pomorska. Despite having passed his final exams '' cum laude'', he was not admitted to Jagiellonian University due to "serious conflicts with the authorities" and was advised to wait one year before reapplying. For several months, Trzas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ustronie Morskie
Ustronie Morskie (german: Henkenhagen) is a village in Kołobrzeg County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Ustronie Morskie. It lies approximately north-east of Kołobrzeg and north-east of the regional capital Szczecin. It is located on the Slovincian Coast, within the historic region of Pomerania. Ustronie Morskie is a popular summer tourist destination with a beach, guesthouses and restaurants. A Neo-Gothic Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ... church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross is located in Ustronie Morskie. The village has a population of 1,800. Gallery Kościół neogotycki Ustronie Morskie 20100801 02.jpg, Exaltation of the Holy Cross church Urząd Gminy, Ustronie Morskie 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zbigniew Namysłowski
Zbigniew Jacek Namysłowski (9 September 1939 – 7 February 2022) was a Polish jazz alto saxophonist, flautist, cellist, trombonist, pianist and composer. Life and career Namysłowski was born in Warsaw, Poland, on 9 September 1939. He performed on the Krzysztof Komeda album '' Astigmatic'' recorded in 1965. He collaborated with such artists as Janusz Muniak, Leszek Możdżer, Vladislav Sendecki, Michał Urbaniak, and Andrzej Trzaskowski. Namysłowski died on 7 February 2022, at the age of 82. Selected discography * ''Lola'' (1964; |
Horace Silver
Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silver (September 2, 1928 – June 18, 2014) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger, particularly in the hard bop style that he helped pioneer in the 1950s. After playing tenor saxophone and piano at school in Connecticut, Silver got his break on piano when his trio was recruited by Stan Getz in 1950. Silver soon moved to New York City, where he developed a reputation as a composer and for his bluesy playing. Frequent sideman recordings in the mid-1950s helped further, but it was his work with the Jazz Messengers, co-led by Art Blakey, that brought both his writing and playing most attention. Their ''Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers'' album contained Silver's first hit, " The Preacher". After leaving Blakey in 1956, Silver formed his own quintet, with what became the standard small group line-up of tenor saxophone, trumpet, piano, bass, and drums. Their public performances and frequent recordings for Blue Note Records increased Silver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hard Bop
Hard bop is a subgenre of jazz that is an extension of bebop (or "bop") music. Journalists and record companies began using the term in the mid-1950s to describe a new current within jazz that incorporated influences from rhythm and blues, gospel music, and blues, especially in saxophone and piano playing. David H. Rosenthal contends in his book ''Hard Bop'' that the genre is, to a large degree, the natural creation of a generation of African-American musicians who grew up at a time when bop and rhythm and blues were the dominant forms of black American music. Prominent hard bop musicians included Horace Silver, Clifford Brown, Charles Mingus, Art Blakey, Cannonball Adderley, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Hank Mobley, Thelonious Monk and Lee Morgan. Musical style Hard bop is sometimes referred to as "funky hard bop". The "funky" label refers to the rollicking, rhythmic feeling associated with the style. The descriptor is also used to describe soul jazz, which is commonly a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dizzy Gillespie
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (; October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, educator and singer. He was a trumpet virtuoso and improviser, building on the virtuosic style of Roy Eldridge but adding layers of harmonic and rhythmic complexity previously unheard in jazz. His combination of musicianship, showmanship, and wit made him a leading popularizer of the new music called bebop. His beret and horn-rimmed spectacles, scat singing, bent horn, pouched cheeks, and light-hearted personality provided one of bebop's most prominent symbols. In the 1940s, Gillespie, with Charlie Parker, became a major figure in the development of bebop and modern jazz. He taught and influenced many other musicians, including trumpeters Miles Davis, Jon Faddis, Fats Navarro, Clifford Brown, Arturo Sandoval, Lee Morgan, Chuck Mangione, and balladeer Johnny Hartman. He pioneered Afro-Cuban jazz and won several Grammy Awards. Scott Yanow wrote, "Dizzy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wojciech Karolak
Wojciech Krzysztof (Wojtek) Karolak (28 May 1939 – 23 June 2021) was a organist who referred to himself as "an and musician, born by mistake in [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Jamboree (music Festival)
The Jamboree (stylized as The JAMboree) is an annual music festival held in Toledo, Ohio. The concert was originally only one day, but it has since expanded to both Saturday and Sunday. The festival features mostly metalcore and hardcore bands and also various merchandise booths. Time Line 2010 *Main Stage: The Devil Wears Prada, Whitechapel, We Came As Romans, Miss May I, The Color Morale, I Am Abomination, Al's Quest, At the Skylines, Vivian Banks, Halfway to Winter, Gale Tempest, Burn the Ships!, Wake from Existence, Death of an Era *2nd Stage: Premonitions of War, For the Fallen Dreams, ABACABB, American Me, And Hell Followed With, Within the Ruins, Like Moths to Flames, Fall to the Queen, Fight the Tide, Lookoutbelow!, Lost in the Light, Once at War, Arson Our Savior, I Have Seen Fire, Versus the Ocean *3rd Stage: Four Letter Lie, Abandon All Ships, Kid Liberty, Destruction of a Rose, Across the Sun, Slay the Betrayer, Hailsite 2011 *Main Stage: Asking Alexandria, Em ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski
Jan "Ptaszyn" Wróblewski (born 27 March 1936) is a Polish jazz musician, composer and arranger. He plays the tenor and baritone saxophones. Wróblewski began his musical career in 1956 at the first Sopot Jazz Festival in Krzysztof Komeda's group. In 1958, he became the first Polish jazz musician to perform at the Newport Jazz Festival as a member of the International Youth Band. He toured around the world and for a decade, beginning in 1958, he directed the Polish Radio Jazz Studio. He has been associated with Third Stream. He is also the DJ of Europe's longest running Jazz Program, broadcast weekly by the Polskie Radio Program III since 1970. Discography * 1956 ''Sextet Komedy: Festiwal Jazzowy Sopot'' * 1958 ''All Stars Swingtet'' * 1958 ''Jazz Believers'' * 1958 ''Newport International Youth Band'' * 1960 ''Quintet Ptaszyna Wróblewskiego'' * 1960 ''Jazz Jamboree ’60'' * 1961 ''Jazz Outsiders'' * 1961 ''Kwintet Jerzego Miliana + Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski'' * 1961 ''Jazz J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Przekrój
''Przekrój'' (; ''Cross-section'') was the oldest Polish weekly newsmagazine in operation, established in 1945 in Kraków. After temporary closure in 2013, it was bought by photographer Tomasz Niewiadomski and subsequently relaunched in December 2016 as a quarterly magazine. Przekrój's matchless literary style and lively visual charm were created due to the collaboration with the avant-garde of Polish intellectuals, writers, poets, artists and cartoonists. Przekrój was the birthplace of writers such as Wisława Szymborska, Stanisław Lem and Czesław Miłosz. History ''Przekrój'' was created by the writer and graphic artist Marian Eile-Kwaśniewski (1910–1984) from Warsaw who, until 1969, was also the first and only editor-in-chief of the magazine. The magazine focused on current social, political and cultural events, both Polish and international. In the 1970s ''Przekrój'' reached a record circulation, with 700,000 copies per issue, by far the most popular magazine in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sopot
Sopot is a seaside resort city in Pomerelia on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea in northern Poland, with a population of approximately 40,000. It is located in Pomeranian Voivodeship, and has the status of the county, being the smallest city in Poland to do so. It lies between the larger cities of Gdańsk to the southeast and Gdynia to the northwest. The three cities together form the metropolitan area of Tricity. Sopot is a major health-spa and tourist resort destination. It has the longest wooden pier in Europe, at 515.5 metres, stretching out into the Bay of Gdańsk. The city is also famous for its Sopot International Song Festival, the largest such event in Europe after the Eurovision Song Contest. Among its other attractions is a fountain of bromide spring water, known as the "inhalation mushroom". Etymology The name is thought to derive from an Old Slavic word ''sopot'' meaning "stream" or "spring". The same root occurs in a number of other Old Slavic toponyms; it i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Parker
Charles Parker Jr. (August 29, 1920 – March 12, 1955), nicknamed "Bird" or "Yardbird", was an American jazz saxophonist, band leader and composer. Parker was a highly influential soloist and leading figure in the development of bebop, a form of jazz characterized by fast tempos, virtuosic technique, and advanced harmonies. Parker was an extremely brilliant virtuoso and introduced revolutionary rhythmic and harmonic ideas into jazz, including rapid passing chords, new variants of altered chords, and chord substitutions. Primarily a player of the alto saxophone, Parker's tone ranged from clean and penetrating to sweet and somber. Parker acquired the nickname "Yardbird" early in his career on the road with Jay McShann. This, and the shortened form "Bird", continued to be used for the rest of his life, inspiring the titles of a number of Parker compositions, such as "Yardbird Suite", "Ornithology", "Bird Gets the Worm", and "Bird of Paradise". Parker was an icon for the hipster ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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