From the 2nd to the 6th of March, the Wroclaw 47th Wroclaw Jazz Festival "Jazz Oder"
"Jazz on the Oder" (website) is one of the oldest Polish jazz festivals: the first time he took place in 1964 in the cult student club "Palacyk" and from that moment he began to play an important role on the Polish music scene. To receive the award at this festival, to attract the attention of the jury or critics - all this was for young musicians to pass into a professional career.
Due to the competition, which was the most important element of the festival, the stars of the Polish jazz scene became known: Ewa Bem, Wlodzimierz Nahorny, Zbigniew Seifert, Krzesimir Debski, Jaroslaw Smietana, Janusz Strobel, Piotr Baron, Henryk Miskiewicz, Tomasz Szukalski, Andrzej Zaucha and many others. Over time, the profile of the festival has changed, stars of European and world jazz began to take part in it, but the contest, which "jazz personalities" declare themselves, is still the main event of the event.
Every year the most interesting musicians perform in Wroclaw , there are the most interesting jazz events. In recent years, such stars as Pat Metheny, Paco deLucia, Al diMeola, Kenny Garret, Dave Holland, Tooth Thielemans, Diana Krall, David Sanborn, Ron Carter, Lizz Wright, Patricia Barber took part in the festival. The festival regularly invites young American musicians, ranking first in the ratings of critics DownBeat magazine in the category of new stars. Among the guests of the festival were: The Bad Plus, Jason Moran, Vijar Iyer, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Christian Scott, Lionel Lueke
This year the organizers of the 47th Festival received 24 entries for soloists, bands and even from the choir consisting of 17 people
An important element of the festival has always been its graphic design. Posters were created by world-famous artists from Wroclaw, and for several years the poster of the festival has been selected through a contest among students of the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw. This year Krzysztof Grudziński won the competition
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