Second stage of the Jazz Po Polsku „Around the World” kicks off April 3 – a project inspired by the feats of Paweł Edmund Strzelecki, the traveler. It has taken the form of an international concert tour which has Polish musicians play in 2024 in such remote corners of the World, as China, Canada, India, Japan, Korea, as well as in a few European countries. Its participants include the leading figures of the current young jazz scene. The musicians will give over 60 live shows.
The JAZZ PO POLSKU „Around the World” Project will kick off in April with concerts by the Jazz Juniors festival laureates – Unleashed Cooperation and JAH Trio. Unleashed Cooperation will go on a tour around the Balkans between April 4 and 27, and visit Croatia, North Macedonia, Moldova and Serbia, as well as Austria, Hungary and Slovakia, whereas JAH Trio will play at a festival in Canada (Montreal, Odd Sound Jazz Festival) between April 11 and 13. Next, between April 16 and 30, India and Bangladesh will enjoy a tour by the duet – Piotr Damasiewicz on trumpet and Kuba Wójcik on guitar. They will be supported by local musicians, as well host workshops for local students. On April 30 they will take part in the International Jazz Day in New Delhi. April will see Confusion Project, with a guest appearance by an Italian vocalist Simona De Rosa, on tour in China, which includes shows at Blue Note in Beijing and Lincoln Center in Shanghai. On May 18 the Piotr Damasiewicz-Aleksandra Kryńska duet will play at the Festival of Polish Culture in Tokyo. Meanwhile, on June 10 Unleashed Cooperation will play at the Chişinău Jazz Festival in Moldova, and on 26-28 June, Tomasz Chyła Quintet will visit the 30th anniversary Klaipeda Castle Jazz Festival in Lithuania.
In the second half of the year the JAZZ PO POLSKU „Around the World” project will have Polish artists visit equally distant parts of the World, like China, Egypt, Indonesia and Korea. The turn of June and July will a tour in China by a band HoTS. On 3 August the Zagorski/Skowronski/Galas Trio will perform at the Ubud Jazz Festival in Bali, Indonesia. At the end of August, Rafał Sarnecki Quartet will play in Chin, among others in Shanghai Lincoln Center and JZ Club in Hangzhou. October and November will see Unleashed Cooperation play at the Etno Jazz Festival in Moldova, JazzInAlbania Festival in Tirana Albania; as well as at the Cairo Jazz Festival, Egipt. The project will conclude in the end of November with a club tour in Korea by Mateusz Gawęda Trio.
The JAZZ PO POLSKU „Around the World” Project kicked off in May 2023 and will last until the end of 2025. It will see Polish artists visit 20 countries and give over 100 concerts on 4 continents within a period of 3 years. The project launched has so far included over 60 concerts in 10 countries.
The JAZZ PO POLSKU „Around the World” Project is inspired by the feats of Paweł Edmund Strzelecki, a Polish traveler who was the first Pole to circumnavigate the World out of his own initiative. Strzelecki went through a remarkable journey in the years 1834-1843, during which he conducted broad geological and geographical research, contributing to the development of knowledge about the contemporary World.
The JAZZ PO POLSKU „Around the World” Project is carried out by the JAZZ PO POLSKU Foundation in collaboration with Polish diplomatic missions around the World, as well as with a number of local partners. The honorary patronage over the project has been taken by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Its partners include: Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Polish Airlines – LOT, the Industrial Development Agency Foundation and the Institute of Economic Diplomacy Foundation. Media patrons: Polish Radio Program 3 (Trójka), Polish Press Agency, and Jazz Forum.
The JAZZ PO POLSKU Foundation is a non-governmental organization presenting a wide spectrum of skills among Polish artists from the younger generation. It helps in establishing cultural collaboration and integrates artistic environments from various countries. It strives for refreshment and consolidation of the image of Polish jazz in the consciousness of foreign audience. Since 2012 the JAZZ PO POLSKU Project has seen 150 musicians play over 350 events in 20 countries. The organized projects include Poland-based shows of both, Polish and foreign artists.
THE 2024 JAZZ PO POLSKU „AROUND THE WORLD” EVENT SCHEDULE
3-27 April NORTH MACEDONIA, SERBIA, SLOVAKIA, HUNGARY, CROATIA, AUSTRIA, SLOVENIA / UNLEASHED COOPERATION
Krzysztof Kuśmierek – sax, Patryk Rynkiewicz – trumpet, Patryk Matwiejczuk – piano, Flavio Gullotta – double bass, Stanisław Aleksandrowicz – drums
03.04 SERBIA, Subotica, Jazzire Festival
04.04 SERBIA, Belgrad, Vikasha Jazz Club
05.04 MACEDONIA, Bitola, Jazz Factory Festival
06.04 MACEDONIA, Skopie, Audiokultura
08.04 SERBIA, Nisz, Koncept 22
09.04 SERBIA, Sombor, Kljun
10.04 SERBIA, Nowy Sad, CK13
20.04 SLOVAKIA, Banská Bystrica, Hogo Fogo
21.04 SLOVAKIA, Brno, Jazzový bar U kouřícího králíka
22.04 HUNGARY, Budapest, If Jazz Cafe
24.04 CROATIA, Zagreb, JazzHR Festival
25.04 AUSTRIA, Graz, Cafe Wolf
26.04 SLOVENIA, Prulcek
27.04 SLOVAKIA, Bratislava, Jazztikot
13-15 April CANADA / JAH Trio
Jan Jarecki – piano Michał Aftyka – double bass Marcin Sojka – drums
11.04, CANADA, Montreal, Odd Sound Jazz Festival, École de musique Vincent D’Indy, warsztaty
11.04, CANADA, Montreal, Odd Sound Jazz Festival, Cassa Obscura, jam session
12.04 CANADA, Montreal, Odd Sound Jazz Festival, O Patro Vys Jazz Club
16-30 April INDIA, BANGLADESH / DAMASIEWICZ-WÓJCIK
Piotr Damasiewicz – trumpet, Kuba Wójcik – guitar
16.04 INDIA, New Delhi/Safdarjung, The Piano Man, DUO
17.04 INDIA, New Delhi/Gurugram, The Piano Man, QUARTET feat. Aradhya Khurana – bass, Varun Rajasekharan – percussion
18.04 INDIA, New Delhi, QUARTET feat. Aradhya Khurana – bass, Varun Rajasekharan – percussion
19.04 INDIA, Goa, The Flying Goat, QUARTET feat. Jonathan Furtado – bass, Judah Lobo – drums
20.04 INDIA, Kolkata, Skinny Mo’s Jazz Club, QUARTET feat. Aditya Servaia – bass, Anirudha Saha – drums
26.04 BANGLADESH, Dhaka, Alliance Française de Dhaka feat. Imran Ahmed – gitara, Saad Chowdhury – piano, Rahin Haider – sax, Mohaimin Karim – bass, Towfiq Arifin – drums
27.04 BANGLADESH, Dhaka, 138 East
30.04 INDIA, New Delhi, International Jazz Day
19 April – 5 May CHINA / CONFUSION PROJECT FEAT. SIMONA ROSA
Simona De Rosa – wokal, Michał Ciesielski – piano, Piotr Gierszewski – bass, Adam Golicki – drums
19.04 CHINA, Beijing, Blue Note
20.04 CHINA, Shanghai, Blue Note
21.04 CHINA, Hangzhou, JZ Club
23.04 CHINA, Contemporaty Music Academy
24.04 CHINA, Beijing, Polish Embassy in Beijing
25.04 CHINA, Beijing, Tsinghua University
26.04 CHINA, Changsha, Xiu Jazz Club
27.04 CHINA, Changsha, Xiu Jazz Club
28.04 CHINA, Hefei, J&Z Cottage
29.04 CHINA, Beijing, Italian Institute in Beijing
01.05 CHINA, Shanghai, Lincoln Center
02.05 CHINA, Shanghai, Lincoln Center
03.05 CHINA, Zhuhai, Golden Jazz Academy
04.05 CHINA, Zhuhai, Golden Jazz Academy
05.05 CHINA, Zhuhai, Zhuhai International School
10 June MOLDOVA / UNLEASHED COOPERATION
Krzysztof Kuśmierek – sax, Patryk Rynkiewicz – trumpet, Patryk Matwiejczuk – piano, Flavio Gullotta – double bass, Stanisław Aleksandrowicz – drums
10.06 MOLDOVA, Chişinău Jazz Festival
16-18 May JAPAN / DAMASIEWICZ-KRYŃSKA
Piotr Damasiewicz – trumpet, Aleksandra Kryńska – piano
18.05 JAPAN, Tokio, Festival of Polish Culture in Tokyo (2 concerts)
21.05 JAPAN, Tokio, Hanamane
21 June – 7 July CHINA / HoTS
Mikołaj Poncyljusz – guitar, Wojciech Jachna – trumpet, Jakub Łępa – saxophone, Tymon Trąbczyński – double bass, Maks Olszewski – drums
21.06 CHINA, Hongkong, Make Music Festival
23.06 CHINA, Shenzhen, Penny Black Jazz Club
26.06 CHINA, Chongqing, NUTS Live House
27.06 CHINA, Ningbo, 1701 Live House
28.06 CHINA, Shanghai, Lincoln Center
29.06 CHINA, Shanghai, Lincoln Center
30.06 CHINA, Hefei, J&Z Cottage
03.07 CHINY, Beijing, Blue Note
04.07 CHINY, Xiamen, Real Live House
05.07 CHINY, Xiamen, Real Live House
06.07 CHINY, Shenzhen, Lavo
07.07 CHINY, Shenzhen, Lavo
26-28 June LITHUANIA / TOMASZ CHYŁA QUINTET
Tomasz Chyła – violin, Emil Miszk – trumpet, Krzysztof Hadrych – guitar, Konrad Żołnierek – double bass, Sławek Koryzno – drums
26.06 LITHUANIA, Klajpeda Castle Jazz Festival, Gargzdai Music school
27.06 LITHUANIA, Klaipeda Castle Jazz Festiva, Klaipeda Franciscan monastery
28.06 LITHUANIA, Klaipeda Castle Jazz Festival, main stage at Klaipeda Theater square
3 August INDONESIA / SKOWROŃSKI/GALAS/ZAGÓRSKI Jakub Skowroński – saxophone, Kajetan Galas – hammond, Adam Zagorski – drums,
03.08 INDONESIA, Bali, Ubudvillage Jazz Festival
30 August – 1 September CHINA / RAFAŁ SARNECKI QUARTET
Rafał Sarnecki – guitar, Nathaniel Gao – saxophone, Danny Zanker – double bass, Victor Bastidas – drums
30.08 CHINA, Shanghai, Lincoln Center
31.08 CHINA, Shanghai, Lincoln Center
01.09 CHINA, Hangzhou, JZ Club
24-26 October ALBANIA / UNLEASHED COOPERATION
Krzysztof Kuśmierek – sax, Patryk Rynkiewicz – trumpet, Patryk Matwiejczuk – piano, Flavio Gullotta – double bass, Stanisław Aleksandrowicz – drums
24.10 ALBANIA, Tirana, Jazzin Albania Festival (club show)
25.10 ALBANIA, Tirana, Jazzin Albania Festival (festival show)
26.10 ALBANIA, Tirana, Jazzin Albania Festival (workshops)
11 October MOLDOVA / UNLEASHED COOPERATION
Krzysztof Kuśmierek – sax, Patryk Rynkiewicz – trumpet, Patryk Matwiejczuk – piano, Flavio Gullotta – double bass, Stanisław Aleksandrowicz – drums
11.10 MOLDOVA, Chişinău, ETNO JAZZ FESTIVAL
1 November EGYPT / UNLEASHED COOPERATION
Krzysztof Kuśmierek – sax, Patryk Rynkiewicz – trumpet, Patryk Matwiejczuk – piano, Flavio Gullotta – double bass, Stanisław Aleksandrowicz – drums
1.11 EGYPT, Cairo, Cairo Jazz Festival
27-30 November KOREA / MATEUSZ GWĘDA TRIO
Mateusz Gawęda – piano, Alan Wykpisz – double bass, Grzegorz Pałka – drums
27.11 KOREA, Seoul, Evans Jazz Club
28.11 KOREA, Gimcheon, High School of Arts
29.11 KOREA, Busan, Buk-gu Culture and Arts Center
30.11 KOREA, Ulsan, Culture & Arts Center
01.12 KOREA, Daejeon. Cultural Foundation