Janusz Stefański

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Janusz Stefański (2016)
Janusz Stefański (2015)

Janusz Maria Stefański (born June 14, 1946 in Krakow ; † November 4, 2016 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a Polish jazz drummer.

Live and act

Stefański studied piano and drums at the State University of Music in his hometown. Since 1968 he has belonged to the well-known Tomasz Stańko quintet , together with the nine days younger violinist and alto saxophonist Zbigniew Seifert , the tenor saxophonist Janusz Muniak , the bassist Bronisław Suchanek and the band leader himself , which recorded three LPs by 1973. 1970–1971 he belonged together a. a. with Zbigniew Namysłowski to the team of Czesław Niemen's short-lived band Enigmatic , which recorded two albums. In 1971 he also worked with Mieczysław Kosz . 1974 years he came, again together with Seifert, the fusion band Free Sound by Hans Koller . In 1980 he belonged to the group The Quartet founded by Sławomir Kulpowicz . After the declaration of war in Poland in 1981, Stefański stayed after a tour in the west and moved to the Federal Republic of Germany, where he ran his own music institute in Königstein im Taunus . Here he founded the Polski Jazz Ensemble in 1983 with his colleagues Leszek Zadlo and Vladislav Sendecki, who had also emigrated . In the 1990s he played in Emil Mangelsdorff's quartet . He later founded his own trio, which also included bassist Jürgen Wuchner and saxophonist Matthias Schubert .

Stefański was a lecturer at the Academy of Music in Mainz and at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt am Main . In 2003 he was awarded the Hessian Jazz Prize.

He was married and had two daughters. Janusz Maria Stefański died on the night of November 4th to 5th, 2016 at the age of 70 in Frankfurt am Main.

Web links

Commons : Janusz Stefański  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary (Polish)
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Sandner: Urgently quiet blows in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, November 11, 2016, p. 34
personal data
SURNAME Stefański, Janusz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stefański, Janusz Maria (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish jazz drummer
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Krakow
DATE OF DEATH 4th November 2016
Place of death Frankfurt am Main