Wanda Warska

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Wanda Warska
Wanda Warska accompanied by Andrzej Kurylewicz (Warsaw, 2006)

Wanda Warska (born April 28, 1932 in Poznań ; † July 6, 2019 in Laski ) was a Polish jazz and chanson singer.

Life

Warska studied in her hometown and in Krakow. Since 1956 she has worked with the jazz pianist and composer Andrzej Kurylewicz , whose songs she also interprets. In 1959 she drew attention to herself in Andrzej Trzaskowski's music for Jerzy Kawalerowicz's film Nachtzug ; In 1962 her vocalises could be heard in Krzysztof Komeda's ballet Etudes . In the film Die Endlose Nacht (1963) she sang the Peter Thomas composition Come, put your arm around me , accompanied by the Andrzej Trzaskowskí quintet in a scat version. During the 1960s she toured Europe several times and was considered one of the best European jazz singers; she also lived for a while in the United States, where she also performed. In 1967 she founded the independent studio Piwnica Artystyczna Kurylewiczów with Kurylewicz in the old town of Warsaw , where readings, concerts and exhibitions were held. In 1970 she gave a concert at the Jazz Jamboree . In the early 1970s she performed with Kurylewicz and the bassist Jacek Bednarek in West Germany in jazz clubs and at festivals such as “Jazz auf der Burg” in Dreieich , and in 1972 she was also involved in the opening ceremony of the new Darmstadt State Theater . She set poems by Heinrich Heine as well as by Jan Kochanowski to music . She also wrote film music and began to paint.

With her husband Andrzej Kurylewicz she had a daughter, the philosopher Gabriela Kurylewicz.

Awards and honors

Discographic notes

  • 1958: Warska Jazz '58 (Muza)
  • 1971: Kurylewicz, Warska, Niemen Muzyka Teatralna i Telewizyjna (Muza; with Andrzej Przybielski , Jacek Bednarek, Władysław Jagiełło )
  • 1984: Warska Pieśni I Fraszki Jana Kochanowskiego
  • 2005: Warska Piosenki Z Piwnicy (PL: platinumplatinum)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Never żyje wokalistka jazzowa Wanda Warska. tvp.info, July 7, 2019, accessed July 7, 2019 (Polish).
  2. ↑ Review of the album ( Allmusic )
  3. ↑ See E. Dieter Fränzel / Jazz AGe Wuppertal (ed.): Sounds like whoopataal. Wuppertal in the world of jazz . Klartext, Essen 2006, p. 107f.
  4. ↑ See the recording on LP Jazz Jamboree'70 Vol. 1 SXL 0696, Polskie Nagrania 1970
  5. ↑ a b See pioneer of Polish jazz  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Darmstädter Echo , August 27, 2009@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.echo-online.de  
  6. ↑ Monitor Polski , PDF position 5
  7. ↑ Spotkanie Jubileuszowe Z Wanda Warska. Och Teatr, 2011, archived from the original on January 19, 2013 ; Retrieved on July 7, 2019 (Polish, original website no longer available).
  8. ↑ Zmarła Wanda Warska. In: tvn24.pl. July 7, 2019, accessed July 7, 2019 (Polish).
  9. ↑ Awards for music sales: PL
personal data
SURNAME Warska, Wanda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish jazz and chanson singer
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Poznań
DATE OF DEATH 6th July 2019
Place of death Laski