NEW EDITION OF JAZZ PO POLSKU “WARSAW LIVE SESSIONS” BEGINS

NOW!

Performed in JASSMINE club, the cyclical event will attract the top jazz names in Poland…

Fifty performances by Poland’s top jazz talents will be conducted as part of the JAZZ PO POLSKU "Warsaw Live Sessions". The project will include, among others, Dominik Wania Quartet, Paweł Kaczmarzyk Trio, Piotr Damasiewicz Into The Roots, Stryjo. Special guest appearance will also be made by Mike Stern, the legendary American guitarist. The concerts will take place in JASSMINE club with the series kicking-off on 29th of January courtesy of the Mateusz Gawęda Trio.

JAZZ PO POLSKU returns to the JASSMINE club after the well-received series “Live Sessions

For China & Korea 2022”. From September to December last year, musicians recorded “live” concerts with the participation of the Warsaw audience before releasing the recording in Asia. During the coming months, every Sunday evening at JASSMINE, guests will again be able to see Polish artists again, as well as guests from abroad, who will present themselves as part of the “Warsaw Live Sessions” project. The cycle will feature as many as 50 concerts over the next three years.

In 2023, leading artists of the Polish jazz scene will feature, including the winners of the

Upcoming Performances

12th Feb

Piotr Damasiewicz Into The Roots

26th Feb Stryjo

Fryderyk Award - Piotr Damasiewicz, Nikola Kołodziejczyk, Mateusz Smoczyński, and Dominik Wania. There will also be performances by representatives of the more contemporary scene, Follow Dices, Klawo, Piotr Matusik Trio, Siema Ziemia, Sebastian Zawadzki Trio, as well as winners of one of the oldest jazz festivals in Poland - Jazz Juniors Festival: Ziemia and Kuba Banaszek Quartet.

Special guests, meanwhile, will include guitarist Mike Stern, trumpeter Freddie Hendrix, and the Ukrainian duo Misha Kalinin and Roksana Smirnova.

“An important element of the Warsaw edition is supporting the local scene, as well as developing international cooperation and integrating creative circles from other countries” says Jakub Krzeszowski, creator of the JAZZ PO POLSKU project. “For the needs of the project, the artists will also create works inspired by Warsaw.”

As part of the JAZZ PO POLSKU “Warsaw Live Sessions”, the audience will have the opportunity not only to listen to the original music of leading Polish jazzmen, but also to take part in the live broadcasts of concerts. Performances recorded in video form will be available on social media, and selected audio tracks on streaming platforms. All concerts will be rebroadcast on the air of the radio media patron.

JASSMINE ul. Wilcza 73

WHAT, WHEN, WHERE

Warsaw’s key events at a glance…

Last Chance!

Locked for nearly half a century behind an Iron Curtain, Poland’s political transformation plunged the country head first into a bewildering world of capitalism, contrast, chaos and color. Marked by its sense of unrestrained adventure, the Museum of Warsaw’s most successful temporary exhibition to date recalls in vivid detail the intrigues and the mayhem of the 1990s. Shot by some of the leading photographers of the era, but supplemented also by random public contributions, the collection’s 1,000 photographs chart varying chapters of the city’s story to offer a textured, warts and all retrospective of the good, the bad and the ugly. It’s amazing!

What: Gloss, Matte, Color

When: Closes February 19th

Where: Museum of Warsaw (Rynek Starego Miasto 32, muzeumwarszawy.pl)

Full Of Beans

Home to what some say is the most dynamic coffee scene in the Central Eastern Europe, it stands to rights that the Polish capital also boasts the region’s most important coffee fair. Attracting both industry professionals and coffee devotees, this two-day event will bring together dozens of stalls presenting different coffee roasters, hardware brands and coffee related products. As per tradition, it’ll also host the Polish Barista 2023 Championship and the Polish Brewers Cup.

What: Warsaw Coffee Festival

When: Feb 4th to Feb 5th

Where: PKiN (Pl. Defilad 1, warsawcoffee.pl)

Dog Days

Organized by the Zachęta’s little sister, Monika Chlebek’s Close Up exhibition celebrates the unbreakable bond between man and dog. Sometimes veering into abstract territory, this tender tale of love presents several close-up portraits of animals, giving the viewer the impression of looking deeply into the eyes of four-legged model – through this, we experience the almost mystical connection people have with dogs. So say the curators: “these paintings bring an understanding that we all belong to the primal wildness and world of nature”.

What: Monika Chlebek: Close Up

When: ongoing till April 2nd

Where: Zachęta Project Room (Pl. Gałczyńskiego 3, zacheta. art.pl)

Life’s A Drag

An icon of Polish queer culture, Andy Nguyen was better-known under the stage name of Kim Lee. A casualty of Covid, for two decades this outstanding artiste became a legendary figure on the drag scene, with this exhibition paying tribute to the legacy built by Nguyen. Among other things, visit to view over stage costumes, personal items and photos shot by award-winning photographer Rafał Milich – not just of Ngyen / Lee, but also Warsaw’s wider Vietnamese community. Long associated with the bars of Wola, the exhibition’s location has been by no means incidental.

What: Kim Lee: Warsaw’s Queen

When: ongoing from Feb 2nd

Where: Museum of Wola (Srebrna 12, muzeumwarszawy.pl)

Nordic Style

Featuring artists from Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Denmark and Finland, over 100 works of art have been gathered by the National Museum of Art in Warsaw. The title of the exhibition references not just the summer solstice, but also the ‘solstice’ that occurred in Nordic painting at the turn of the 20th century. It was then that the Scandinavian countries saw their art scene blossom, and it is this that comes across in an exhibition that further touches o themes of nature, work, national myths, inner being and metaphysical landscapes.

What: Solstice. Nordic Painting 1880-1910

When: ongoing till March 10th

Where: Museum of National Art in Warsaw (Jerzolimskie 3, mnw.art.pl)