Summer Jazz Festival Krakow 

2023 Jazz Summer Festival in Krakow. 

The 28th Summer Jazz Festival Krakow goes on from July 2nd to August 2nd, 2023 with numerous live concerts scheduled to take place in the city's jazz clubs and other places. The festival's main venue is the Piwnica Pod Baranami cellar club at 27 Rynek Glowny (Grand Square) where jazz concerts are scheduled every night at 9 pm from July 2nd through July 30th. 

Program of the 2023 Summer Jazz Festival in Krakow, Poland. 

Note: things keep changing, so take into account, please, that the following program is liable to alterations.

July 2nd, Sunday: Poland's Orchestra Dedicated jazz septet play in Harris Piano Jazz Bar, 28 Rynek Glowny (Grand Square), at 9:30 pm (admission 40 PLN).
Krakow’s Old Metropolitan Band performs traditional jazz in Piwnica pod Baranami cellar club, 27 Rynek Glowny central square, at 9 pm (admission 60 PLN).
July 3rd, Monday: Poland’s Jan ‘Ptaszyn’ Wroblewski Quartet play mainstream jazz in Piwnica pod Baranami cellar club, 27 Rynek Glowny central square, at 9 pm (admission 60 PLN).
Poland’'s Rafal Sarnecki Quintet play in Harris Piano Jazz Bar, 28 Rynek Glowny (Grand Square), at 9:30 pm (admission 40 PLN).
July 4th, Tuesday: Jazz concert features Poland’s drummer Jacek Kochan and AJEE trio of Jacek Kochan, electronica player Dominik Wania and saxophonist Bartek Prucnal in Piwnica pod Baranami cellar club, 27 Rynek Glowny central square, at 9 pm (admission 60 PLN).
Jazz concert features Poland’s ADAM WENDT POWER SET ensemble in Harris Piano Jazz Bar, 28 Rynek Glowny (Grand Square), at 9:30 pm (admission 40 PLN).
July 5th, Wednesday: Jazz concert features Poland's keyboardist Kajetan Galas and his Organ Spot trio in Piwnica pod Baranami cellar club, 27 Rynek Glowny central square, at 9 pm (admission 60 PLN).
Groove jam session takes place in Harris Piano Jazz Bar, 28 Rynek Glowny (Grand Square), at 9:30 pm.
July 6th, Thursday: Poland’s Adam Kawonczyk Quartet play jazz in Piwnica pod Baranami cellar club, 27 Rynek Glowny central square, at 9 pm (admission 60 PLN).
Jazz concert features Poland’s duo of violist and singer Karolina Naziemiec and pianist Dominik Wania in Harris Piano Jazz Bar, 28 Rynek Glowny (Grand Square), at 9:30 pm (admission 40 PLN)
July 7th, Friday: Krakow’s Boba Jazz Band play swing and traditional jazz in Piwnica pod Baranami cellar club, 27 Rynek Glowny central square, at 9 pm (admission 60 PLN).
Poland's Patrycjusz Gruszecki Trio play jazz in Harris Piano Jazz Bar, 28 Rynek Glowny (Grand Square), at 9:30 pm (admission 40 PLN).
July 8th, Saturday: Poland’s jazz singer and violinist Dorota Miskiewicz performs with guitarist Marek Napiorkowski in Piwnica pod Baranami cellar club, 27 Rynek Glowny central square, at 9 pm (admission 60 PLN).
Poland’s singer Margo Zuber performs jazz standards in Harris Piano Jazz Bar, 28 Rynek Glowny (Grand Square), at 9:30 pm (admission 40 PLN).
July 9th, Sunday: Poland’s Marek Napiorkowski Trio play jazz in Piwnica pod Baranami cellar club, 27 Rynek Glowny central square, at 9 pm (admission 60 PLN).
Poland’s singer-songwriter YaniKa aka Magdalena Grzymkowska performs neo soul & rnb music in Harris Piano Jazz Bar, 28 Rynek Glowny (Grand Square), at 9.30 pm (admission 40 PLN).
July 10th, Monday: Concert Jazz Meets The Beatles features Poland’s Sitkowski Band-Two Generations in Piwnica pod Baranami cellar club, 27 Rynek Glowny central square, at 9 pm (admission 60 PLN).
Jazz concert features Poland’s Grzegorz Maslowski Quintet in Harris Piano Jazz Bar, 28 Rynek Glowny (Grand Square), at 9.30 pm (admission 40 PLN).
July 11th, Tuesday: Jazz concert features Organic Trio of Ben Michael, Kajetan Galas, and Grzegorz Maslowski in Piwnica pod Baranami cellar club, 27 Rynek Glowny central square, at 9 pm (admission 60 PLN).
Blues-rock jam session takes place in Harris Piano Jazz Bar, 28 Rynek Glowny (Grand Square), at 9:30 pm.
July 12th, Wednesday: Poland’s duo of jazz vocalist and pianist Ilona Damiecka and violinist & Mateusz Smoczynski perform in Piwnica pod Baranami cellar club, 27 Rynek Glowny central square, at 9 pm (admission 60 PLN).
Jazz concert features Organic Trio  in Harris Piano Jazz Bar, 28 Rynek Glowny (Grand Square), at 9.30 pm (admission 40 PLN).
July 13th, Thursday: Poland's New Bone quintet play jazz in Piwnica pod Baranami cellar club, 27 Rynek Glowny central square, at 9 pm (admission 60 PLN).
MUKHERJEE BLUES band performs in Harris Piano Jazz Bar, 28 Rynek Glowny (Grand Square), at 9.30 pm (admission 40 PLN).
July 14th, Friday: Concert Tribute to Janusz Muniak features Italy’s Roberto Magris Trio performing with Poland’s saxophonists Maciej Sikala and Marcin Slusarczyk in Piwnica pod Baranami cellar club, 27 Rynek Glowny central square, at 9 pm (admission 60 PLN).
Jazz concert features Italy’s FILIPPO DALL’ASTA QUARTET performing with Poland’s guitarist Marek Piatek in Harris Piano Jazz Bar, 28 Rynek Glowny (Grand Square), at 9.30 pm (admission 40 PLN).
July 15th, Saturday: Czechia’s PAVEL WLOSOK QUINTET play jazz in Harris Piano Jazz Bar, 28 Rynek Glowny (Grand Square), at 9.30 pm (free admission).
July 16th, Sunday: Concert Tribute to Toots Thielemans features Mike del Ferro Trio performing with Poland’s harmonica player Kacper Smolinski in Piwnica pod Baranami cellar club, 27 Rynek Glowny central square, at 9 pm (admission 60 PLN).
Jazz concert features Cyprus’s IOANNIS VAFEAS QUARTET in Harris Piano Jazz Bar, 28 Rynek Glowny (Grand Square), at 9.30 pm (admission 40 PLN).
July 17th, Monday:  Jazz duo of New York’s vocalist, pianist and guitarist Nat Osborn and bassist Mike Parker perform in Harris Piano Jazz Bar, 28 Rynek Glowny (Grand Square), at 9:30 pm (admission 40 PLN).
Poland’s violinist Krzesimir Debski and bass guitarist Krzysztof Scieranski play jazz in Piwnica pod Baranami cellar club, 27 Rynek Glowny central square, at 9 pm (admission 60 PLN).
July 18th, Tuesday: Jazz concert Friends features Poland’s saxophonist Piotr Baron, guitarist Marek Napiorkowski, violinist Krzesimir Debski, and drummer Adam Czerwinski in Piwnica pod Baranami cellar club, 27 Rynek Glowny central square, at 9 pm (admission 60 PLN).
Blues concert features Keith Thompson Trio in Harris Piano Jazz Bar, 28 Rynek Glowny (Grand Square), at 9:30 p.m. (admission 40 PLN).
July 19th, Wednesday: Poland’s female jazz quintet O.N.E. perform with trumpeter Emil Miszk in Piwnica pod Baranami cellar club, 27 Rynek Glowny central square, at 9 pm (admission 60 PLN).
Jazz jam session takes place in Harris Piano Jazz Bar, 28 Rynek Glowny (Grand Square), at 9:30 pm.
July 20th, Thursday: Jazz concert Tribute to Namyslowski features Poland’s Mateusz Palka Quartet in Piwnica pod Baranami cellar club, 27 Rynek Glowny central square, at 9 pm (admission 60 PLN).
Jazz concert features Poland’s Galas, Kijas, Skolik Trio in Globus Music Club, 4. Wegierska street, at 8 pm.
NITA AARTSEN SHOW takes place in Harris Piano Jazz Bar, 28 Rynek Glowny (Grand Square), at 9:30 p.m. (admission 40 PLN).
July 21st, Friday: Vietnam’s pianist Viet Trung Nguyen plays Ignacy Jan Paderewski’s Minuet in G op. 14 no. 1, Sarabande in H minor op. 14 no. 2, and Melodia Ges-dur op. 16 no. 2, Frederic Chopin’s Mazurkas op. 24, Mieczyslaw Karlowicz: Waltz in G, Frederic Chopin’s Ballade in F minor op. 52 and Sonata in B minor op. 35 in the Jagiellonian University's Collegium Novum, 24 Golebia street at Planty gardens, at 7 pm.
Poland’s Leszek Kulakowski Trio play jazz in Piwnica pod Baranami cellar club, 27 Rynek Glowny central square, at 9 pm (admission 60 PLN).
Nita Aartsen Show takes place in Globus Music Club, 4. Wegierska street, at 8 pm.
Jazz concert features Poland’s Karol Dobrowolski Quintet in Harris Piano Jazz Bar, 28 Rynek Glowny (Grand Square), at 9:30 p.m. (admission 40 PLN).
July 22nd, Saturday: Poland's Hot Swing quartet plays swing music in Globus Music Club, 4. Wegierska street, at 8 pm.
Poland’s Marian Pawlik Quartet play jazz in Piwnica pod Baranami cellar club, 27 Rynek Glowny central square, at 9 pm (admission 60 PLN).
Poland’s Slawek Pezda Quartet play jazz in Harris Piano Jazz Bar, 28 Rynek Glowny (Grand Square), at 9:30 pm (admission 40 PLN).
July 23rd, Sunday: Poland’s Maciej Obara Quartet play jazz in the Filharmonia Krakowska concert hall, 1 Zwierzyniecka street and Straszewskiego street, at 8 pm.
Jazz concert features Mike Parker’s Trio Theory of USA’s bassist Mike Parker and drummer Frank Parker plus Poland’s saxophonist Slawek Pezda in Piwnica pod Baranami cellar club, 27 Rynek Glowny central square, at 9 pm (admission 60 PLN).
Poland’s band, FUNK DE NITE, plus vocalist MC Stewlocks perform fusion jazz in Harris Piano Jazz Bar, 28 Rynek Glowny (Grand Square), at 9:30 p.m. (admission 40 PLN).
July 24th, Monday: Poland’s Mariusz Bogdanowicz Quintet play jazz in Piwnica pod Baranami cellar club, 27 Rynek Glowny central square, at 9 pm (admission 60 PLN).
Jazz concert features Poland’s CHOJNACKI/MIGULA CONTEMPLATIONS quartet of trumpeter Jan Chojnacki, pianist Filip Migula, bassist Bartlomiej Chojnacki, and drummer Dawid Opalinski in Harris Piano Jazz Bar, 28 Rynek Glowny central square, at 9:30 pm (admission 40 PLN).
July 25th, Tuesday: Poland’s Wlodzimierz Nahorny Trio play smooth jazz in Piwnica pod Baranami cellar club, 27 Rynek Glowny central square, at 9 pm (admission 60 PLN).
Jazz concert SKUBISZ/LEMANCZYK COOPERATION takes place in Harris Piano Jazz Bar, 28 Rynek Glowny central square, at 9:30 pm (admission 40 PLN).
July 26th, Wednesday: Krakow’s jazz vocalist Marek Balata performs with pianist Dominik Wania in Piwnica pod Baranami cellar club, 27 Rynek Glowny central square, at 9 pm (admission 60 PLN).
Funk and soul jam session takes place in Harris Piano Jazz Bar, 28 Rynek Glowny (Grand Square), at 9:30 pm.
July 27th, Thursday: Jazz concert features Poland’s Bernard Maseli Dragonflies Project in Piwnica pod Baranami cellar club, 27 Rynek Glowny central square, at 9 pm (admission 60 PLN).
Poland’s Soul Finger trio perform blues and funk music in Globus Music Club, 4. Wegierska street, at 8 pm.
Krakow’s Charming Beauties band performs r&b in in Harris Piano Jazz Bar, 28 Rynek Glowny (Grand Square), at 9:30 pm (admission 40 PLN).
July 28th, Friday: Jazz concert features Poland’s Tomasz Bialowolski Trio in Globus Music Club, 4. Wegierska street, at 8 pm.
Poland’s Szymon Mika Trio play jazz in Piwnica pod Baranami cellar club, 27 Rynek Glowny central square, at 9 pm (admission 60 PLN).
Jazz concert features Poland's Krzysztof Scieranski Quartet in Harris Piano Jazz Bar, 28 Rynek Glowny central square, at 9:30 p.m. (admission 40 PLN).
July 29th, Saturday: Krakow’s Laboratorium jazz rock band performs in Piwnica pod Baranami cellar club, 27 Rynek Glowny central square, at 9 pm (admission 60 PLN).
Jazz concert features Krakow’s flutist and vocalist Zuza Baum plus Bartek Lesniak C.O. Project in Globus Music Club, 4. Wegierska street, at 8 pm.
Concert TOMEK GROCHOT ELECTRIC MACHINE takes place in Harris Piano Jazz Bar, 28 Rynek Glowny (Grand Square), at 9:30 pm (admission 40 PLN).
July 30th, Sunday: Poland’s jazz vocalist Lora Szafran gives a recital in Piwnica pod Baranami cellar club, 27 Rynek Glowny central square, at 9 pm (admission 60 PLN).
Concert MILOSZ BAZARNIK 5TET takes place in Harris Piano Jazz Bar, 28 Rynek Glowny (Grand Square), at 9:30 pm (admission 40 PLN).
July 31st, Monday: Concert Violin Summit: Adam Baldych & Roby Lakatos features Poland’s jazz violinist Adam Baldychplus pianist Krzysztof Dys, bassist Andrzej Swies, drummer Dawid Fortuna and Hungary’s violinist Roby Lakatos plus clarinetist Szymon Klima, pianist Pawel Kaczmarczyk, bassist Adam Kowalewski, and drummer Sebastian Frankiewicz in the Filharmonia Krakowska concert hall, 1 Zwierzyniecka street and Straszewskiego street, at 8 pm..

August 4th, Friday: Poland’s jazz duo of pianist Piotr Orzechowski and saxophonist Kuba Wiecek play in Alchemia club, 5 Estery street, at 8 pm.
August 5th, Saturday: Poland’s jazz pianist Franciszek Raczkowski plays solo in Alchemia club, 5 Estery street, at 8 pm.
August 12th, Saturday: Dominican Republic’s jaz pianist Michel Camilo plays in the Filharmonia Krakowska concert hall, 1 Zwierzyniecka street and Straszewskiego street, at 8 pm.
August 18th, Friday: Poland’s jazz duo of saxophonist Adam Pieronczyk and pianist Dominik Wania play in Alchemia club, 5 Estery street, at 8 pm.
August 21st, Monday: Poland’s jazz pianist Joachim Mencel gives a recital in the Filharmonia Krakowska concert hall, 1 Zwierzyniecka street and Straszewskiego street, at 8 pm.
August 22nd, Tuesday: Poland’s jazz pianist Piotr Orzechowski gives a recital in the Filharmonia Krakowska concert hall, 1 Zwierzyniecka street and Straszewskiego street, at 8 pm.
August 23rd, Wednesday: Concert Tuwim’s Dream features Poland’s jazz singer Jan Piwowarczyk in Palac Potockich, 20 Rynek Glowny central square, at 8 pm.
Poland’s jazz pianist Mateusz Gaweda gives a recital in the Filharmonia Krakowska concert hall, 1 Zwierzyniecka street and Straszewskiego street, at 8 pm.
August 24th, Thursday: Poland’s jazz pianist Dominik Wania gives a recital in the Filharmonia Krakowska concert hall, 1 Zwierzyniecka street and Straszewskiego street, at 8 pm.
August 25th, Friday: Poland’s jazz pianist Mateusz Palka gives a recital in the Filharmonia Krakowska concert hall, 1 Zwierzyniecka street and Straszewskiego street, at 8 pm.
August 26th, Saturday: Poland’s jazz pianist Adam Makowicz gives a recital in the Filharmonia Krakowska concert hall, 1 Zwierzyniecka street and Straszewskiego street, at 8 pm.
August 27th, Sunday: Poland’s jazz pianist Piotr Wylezol gives a recital in the Filharmonia Krakowska concert hall, 1 Zwierzyniecka street and Straszewskiego street, at 8 pm.
August 30th, Wednesday: Jazz concert features Jan Garbarek Group plus India’s percussionist Trilok Gurtu in Opera House, 48 Lubicz street, at 8 pm.
Krakow’s Hulajdusza! band and vocalist Julia Szarek perform jazz folk in Palac Potockich, 20 Rynek Glowny central square, at 8 pm.
August 31st, Thursday: Concert The Light features Poland’s jazz singer Grazyna Auguscik and Krakow’s accordionist Jarek Bester in Kosciol sw. Katarzyny church, 7 Augustianska street and Skaleczna street, at 8 pm.

September 1st, Friday: Concert The Bell for Peace features Germany’s jazz trumpeter Markus Stockhausen, Poland’s pianist Leszek Mozdzer, soprano Olga Pasiecznik, and pianist Dominik Wania plus Krakow Philharmonic Choir in the Filharmonia Krakowska concert hall, 1 Zwierzyniecka street and Straszewskiego street, at 8 pm.
September 2nd, Saturday: Krakow’s traditional jazz bands Hot Swing and Old Metropolitan Band perform in Restauracja Ratuszowa restaurant at theTown Hall Tower in the Rynek Glowny central square at 4 pm.
Concert Jarek Smietana In Memoriam takes place in Radio Krakow hall, 22 Slowackiego avenue, at 8 pm.

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