Andrzej Trzaskowski

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Andrzej Trzaskowski (born March 23, 1933 in Krakow ; † September 16, 1998 in Warsaw ) was a Polish jazz pianist , arranger and composer who published the first Polish album in 1965 that can be assigned to free jazz .

biography

Trzaskowski learned the piano as a child and studied at the University of Cracow . At the age of 18 he played in the Polish band Melomani , which he founded in 1951 with clarinetist Jerzy Matuszkiewicz . Between 1952 and 1957 he studied musicology at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow , took private lessons in composition and contemporary music theory and worked in an experimental studio of the Polish radio. In 1958 he played with the formation The Jazz Believers , a quintet to which Wojciech Karolak and Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski also belonged, and in a quintet led by Jerzy Matuszkiewicz.

In 1959 he founded the hard bop formation The Jazz Wreckers , in which saxophonist Zbigniew Namysłowski also played and which was at the level of top European bands, and performed with them in 1962 in Washington, DC and at the Newport Jazz Festival . Accompanied by the Andrzej Trzaskowskí quintet, Wanda Warska , with whom Trzaskowski had been working since 1956, sang Peter Thomas' composition Come on, put your arm around me in a scat version that appears on the 1963 film Die Endlose Nacht (1963) Berlin-Tempelhof Airport was filmed. In 1964 he performed with a quintet in Germany. With Tomasz Stańko , Janusz Muniak , Jacek Ostaszewski and Adam Jedrzejowsi he recorded his debut LP in 1965, which aimed to “renew the musical language of jazz” and which Ekkehard Jost counts as one of the first European productions of free jazz. After that, however, he returned to the more tied forms of jazz. He took part with his trio at the Finnish jazz festival in Pori in 1968 and in 1969 with his sextet at an NDR jazz workshop . He often accompanied foreign jazz musicians such as Stan Getz in 1960 and Ted Curson in 1965/66. In addition to Zbigniew Namysłowski, he played with Tomasz Stańko and Michał Urbaniak .

From 1975 Trzaskowski directed a Polish radio and television orchestra and concentrated more on composing. He had started doing this in the early 1960s with third-stream works such as Nihil novi , which Don Ellis had performed at the 1962 International Jazz Jamboree in Warsaw. He also wrote music for two jazz ballets and for numerous plays and films. He made a brief appearance in Andrzej Wajda's film Niewinni Czarodzieje ( The Innocent Sorcerers ) (1960).

Andrzej Trzaskowski died in Warsaw at the age of 65 and was buried in the Powązki Cemetery.

His son Rafał Trzaskowski (* 1972) was elected mayor of Warsaw in October 2018 . He ran against Andrzej Duda in the 2020 Polish presidential election and received 48.97% of the vote in the runoff elections.

Discographic notes

  • The Wreckers (1960, Muza 0133)
  • The Andrzej Trzaskowski Quintet Synopsis (1965, Muza 0258)
  • Andrzej Trzaskowski Sextet Featuring Ted Curson Seant (1966, Muza 0378)

Film music

  • 1959: Night train (Pociąg)
  • 1961: Men around Susanne (Zuzanna i chłopcy)
  • 1965: Walkover (Walkower)
  • 1966: Remedies for Love (Lekarstwo na miłość)
  • 1970: Album Poland (Album Polski)
  • 1977: Endless Meadows (Bezkresne łąki)
  • 1981: Shudder (Dreszcze)

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Remarks

  1. ^ New jazz lexicons (Kunzler Jazz-Lexikon 2002 and Kampmann Reclams Jazzlexikon 2003) indicate September 17, 1998 as the date of death
  2. ↑ like Jerzy Kawalerowicz's film Pociąg ( The Train a / k / a Night Train ) (1959), Mieczysław Waśkowskis Jeszcze słychać śpiew i rżenie koni ... ( One Can Still Hear Singing and the Neighing of Horses ... ) (1971) , Andrzej Kotkowski's 1978 TV film Gra o wszystko ( A Gamble for Everything ), Wojciech Marczewski's Dreszcze ( Shivers ) (1981), Janusz Kidawa's Bardzo spokojna wieś ( A Very Peaceful Village ) (1983) and Krzysztof Magowski's 1990 TV series Świnka ( Piggy )
personal data
SURNAME Trzaskowski, Andrzej
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish jazz pianist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Krakow
DATE OF DEATH September 16, 1998
Place of death Warsaw