10th Anniversary of the Blue Shroud Band: “The Blue Shroud” – Artistic residency at the 19th KJJ, Day 5 This year’s Krakow Jazz Autumn (KJJ) will come full circle with the participation of the distinguished guest and artist, Barry Guy. He is a remarkable figure who seamlessly bridges the worlds of […]
The last evening in the series of improvised concerts of small ensembles at Alchemia – at the same time a warm-up before the final concerts, to which we will move to the Manggha Museum for two evenings (November 23 and 24). First set will begin with a solo performance by […]
The pure delight of KJJ artistic residencies: intimate, improvised concerts by small ensembles at Alchemia Club. A week-long celebration of the Blue Shroud Band’s decade of artistry – evening 3: two sets and endless possibilities for this fifteen excellent improvisers, formed into duos in so many various configurations! Let’s continue […]
The pure delight of KJJ artistic residencies: intimate, improvised concerts by small ensembles at Alchemia Club, where groups like this year’s celebrants, the Blue Shroud Band, prepare for their grand finale (to be held on November 23rd and 24th at the Manggha Museum). This is the second evening of a […]
The pure delight of KJJ artistic residencies: intimate, improvised concerts by small ensembles at Alchemia Club, where groups like this year’s celebrants, the Blue Shroud Band, prepare for their grand finale (to be held on November 23rd and 24th at the Manggha Museum). We’ll begin a week-long celebration of the […]
Originally a duo created by excellent improvisers, pianist Witold Oleszak and drummer Aleksandra Rzepka. Witold prepares his instrument, but also uses various objects to play,. Alexandra, in addition to an extensive drum set, also plays the zither. They are both fascinated by everything that is ambiguous and undefined in music. […]
The BLUE SHROUD BAND residency will give their final concert of the composition “all this this here”
Premiere of a Polish-Korean audiovisual project commissioned by the Korean Cultural Center in Poland (Centrum Kultury Koreańskiej).
Autumn in Alchemia Club, Krakow has resonated with the sounds of free jazz and im-provised music since 2006 and we are very happy to announce that despite the pan-demic, this year will be no different.
Five decades of music, seventeen improvisers and three extraordinary evenings in one extraordinary city. At the beginning of March, improvised jazz lovers will have something really special to look forward to!
The trio Polonka set themselves a seemingly impossible task: to combine ethnic music from as many countries as possible. They are inspired by rhythms from regions of Poland, Africa and the Caucasus, while improvising and drawing on the avant-garde.
Krakow Improvisers Orchestra is a collective well known to lovers of improvised music, especially to the regulars of Krakow Jazz Autumn. The audience will surely remember their collaboration with Japanese piano virtuoso Satoko Fujii two years ago. This group of experimenters brings together musicians from many worlds – those with […]