Three evenings of jazz performances with the best Polish and Israeli jazz artists, special collaborations and unique original productions for the festival, jointly produced by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Poland, the Polish Institute in Tel Aviv and the Israeli jazz community
Among the participants: Marcin Wasilewski Triothe computers of the European jazz ensembles in the last three decades, Marta Wajdzik Quartet One of Europe’s leading young jazz artists, Amit Friedman, Uriel Herman, the string quartet of Piotr StekDaria Mosenzon and more. In the program: performances by leading Polish jazz ensembles, Israeli-Polish collaborations, Israeli ensembles improvising Chopin, a salute to the legendary jazz trumpeter Tomasz Stanko on his 80th birthday, jazz arrangements by the famous Hollywood film composer Bronisław Keiper and more
Since the 1960s, when jazz in Poland symbolized the desire for freedom from the communist regime, Poland became a jazz powerhouse and has remained so until today – with a Polish jazz scene that is one of the highest quality and most important in the world. Despite this, the audience of jazz lovers in Israel has hardly been exposed to it. The Polish Institute in Tel Aviv, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw and the Israeli jazz community picked up the gauntlet in 2020 and founded the The Polish Jazz Festival in Tel Aviv. This year the festival will put a spotlight on the artists, ensembles and fine music of Polish jazz, alongside special arrangements by leading Israeli ensembles for two of the most important Polish composers – Frédéric Chopin and Bronisław Keiper, the Polish composer of some of the famous soundtracks of films from the Golden Age of Hollywood.
The Polish Jazz Festival, which is in its third year, will be held at the Gray Club in Tel Aviv. The festival will be opened by a trio Marcin Vashilevsky – one of the most important and influential ensembles in European and global jazz in recent decades – releasing their albums on the important ECM label, for their first visit to Israel in 14 years – in two performances: a festive opening show in honor of one of the European jazz legends, the trumpeter Tomas Stanko, on the 80th anniversary of his birth. A second show will include works from their latest and highly acclaimed album Waitingtheir seventh album on the new ECM label.
The young generation will be represented by the saxophonist quartet Marta Wajdzik One of the rising forces in European jazz, this is her first visit to Israel. The String Quartet of Piotr Steczek They will meet the pianist Uriel Herman and the percussionist Postal spring for a concert produced especially for the festival.
This year the festival will continue the tradition “Chopin’s Improvisations”: original productions of high-quality and diverse Israeli ensembles that interpret in a unique way the timeless compositions of the renowned Polish composer Frederic Chopin. This year’s festival program is expected to include fascinating connections between jazz, western classical music and rhythms and melodies from the Maghreb, India, Iran and the Middle East.
Additional source production – Amit Friedman manganese Bronislav Keiper, The Jewish-Polish composer who wrote the soundtracks for about 150 Hollywood films is known as Hollywood Gold, and whose compositions such as On Green Dolphin Street and Invitation have become jazz standards.
Barak Weiss, festival director: “This is the third time the Polish Jazz Festival has been held in Tel Aviv, and it will surely become one of the landmarks of the Tel Aviv jazz scene. The audience of jazz lovers in Israel will be able to enjoy some of the most creative and influential ensembles in the European jazz scene, in national premiere performances, special original productions for the festival and fascinating collaborations between Polish and Israeli jazz artists. Including unique arrangements of three of the most important Polish composers: Frédéric Chopin, Bronisław Keiper and Tomasz Stanko.”
The Polish Institute Tel Aviv is a cultural diplomatic body whose purpose is to present contemporary Polish culture to the Israeli audience. The institute, which operates under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland, creates collaborations with the leading educational and cultural institutions in Israel to create events, festivals and activities in the fields of art, dance, theater, history, science, cinema and design, workshops, events and meetings between Israeli and Polish creators, in order to facilitate a wide dialogue -Cultural with mutual fertilization and a deep reference to the common past and the common future.
Adam Mickiewicz Institute (Adam Mickiewicz Institute) It is a national cultural institution whose mission is to strengthen and expose the main representatives of Polish culture through active participation in international cultural exchanges, in accordance with the foreign policy of the Polish government. The institute manages projects in the field of culture in seventy countries around the world on six continents, to which more than 60 million people have been exposed. The website Culture.pl operated by the Institute provides up-to-date information on Polish cultural events around the world. The Adam Mickiewicz Institute is supported by the Ministry of Culture and Sports of Poland.
The Israeli jazz community is a voluntary organization of thousands of jazz lovers, which started its activities 6 years ago and works to satisfy the jazz needs of jazz lovers, which are not met at jazz festivals in Israel and at performances for profit of producers. In the years of its activity, the jazz community brought to Israel dozens of high-quality world jazz shows and produced shows with the best Israeli jazz artists, all without artistic compromises and without considerations of profit. In addition, she holds lectures on jazz topics, meetings with international jazz artists and more.
For information and tickets: https://bit.ly/polishjazz22