The
2008 Jazz Summer Festival in Krakow's Piwnica Pod Baranami
Club and Other Venues.
Krakow's
Jazz Summer Festival takes place from July 6 to August 3, 2008
with the main venue in the Piwnica Pod Baranami cellar club at
27 Rynek Glowny (Grand Sq.) where jazz concerts are scheduled
every night at 9 p.m. from July 7 through August 1.
Program
of the 2008 Jazz Summer Festival in Krakow.
Note: things keep changing, so take
into account, please, that the following program is liable to
alterations.
July
6
New
Orleans' Sunday.
From noon
to 4 p.m.
Krakow's bands perform
traditional jazz music in the street cafes on
Krakow's central Rynek Glowny
square.
Venue: Grand Square.
From 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.
'New
Orleans' Parade' starts from the barbican (Barbakan) behind the Brama Florianska
gate and proceeds down Florianska street to the Old Town's
central Rynek Glowny square.
Venue: Florianska street and Grand Square.
6 p.m.
Open-air concert features
Sweden’s Sveriges
Jazzband, the USA’s Dixie Band, Hungary’s Little
Jazz Band, and Poland’s Jazz Band Ball Orchestra, Wojciech
Karolak, Boba Jazz Band,
and Beale Street Band.
Venue: Plac Szczepanski square.
8 p.m.
Open-air concert
of New Orleans' jazz.
Venue: Plac Nowy square.
July
7
7
p.m.
Opening
concert entitled 'Krakow Saxophone
Summit'
features USA’s
outstanding saxophonist Branford Marsalis with his
quartet plus Lee Konitz, Greg Osby, Janusz Muniak
Quartet, and Adam Pieronczyk Trio.
Venue: Filharmonia concert hall at 1 Zwierzyniecka
street.
9 p.m.
Sweden’s Sveriges Jazzband performs New Orleans’
jazz.
Venue: the Piwnica Pod Baranami cellar club at 27 Rynek Glowny
(Grand Sq.)
July
8
9 p.m.
USA's saxophonist Monty Waters
and Poland's Kazimierz Jonkisz Quintet.
Venue: the Piwnica Pod Baranami cellar club at 27 Rynek Glowny
(Grand Sq.)
July
9
9 p.m.
Poland's veteran jazzmen, Jazz Band Ball
Orchestra, perform
Dixieland music.
Venue: the Piwnica Pod Baranami cellar club at 27 Rynek Glowny
(Grand Sq.)
July
10
8
p.m.
Poland’s Kreszendo jazz ensemble.
Venue: Harris Piano Jazz Bar at 28 Rynek
Glowny (Grand Square)
9
p.m.
Trio of jazzmen Krzysztof Scieranski, Bernard
Maseli, and Piotr Gembalski.
Venue: the Piwnica Pod Baranami cellar club at 27 Rynek Glowny
(Grand Sq.)
July
11
9
p.m.
Poland’s Adam Kawonczyk
Quartet.
Venue: the Piwnica Pod Baranami cellar club at 27 Rynek Glowny
(Grand Sq.)
July
12
9
p.m.
Poland’s jazz vocalist
Marek Balata performs with his group.
Venue: the Piwnica Pod Baranami cellar club at 27 Rynek Glowny
(Grand Sq.)
July
13
9
p.m.
Krakow's accomplished sextet, New Bone.
Venue: the Piwnica Pod Baranami cellar club at 27 Rynek Glowny
(Grand Sq.)
July
14
9
p.m.
Quartet of Poland’s three outstanding jazzmen,
guitarist Jarek Smietana, keyboardist Wojciech Karolak, and
drummer Adam Czerwinski. and Israel’s Yarron.
Venue: the Piwnica Pod Baranami cellar club at 27 Rynek Glowny
(Grand Sq.)
July
15
9
p.m.
Trio of Poland’s three
outstanding jazzmen, guitarist Jarek Smietana,
keyboardist Wojciech Karolak, and drummer Adam Czerwinski
perform mainstream jazz.
Venue: the Piwnica Pod Baranami cellar club at 27 Rynek Glowny
(Grand Sq.)
July
16
8
p.m.
Poland’s Grzech Piotrowski Quartet.
Venue: Harris Piano Jazz Bar at 28 Rynek
Glowny (Grand Square)
9
p.m.
Canada's Jan Jarczyk Group plus Spain's Polish-born
saxophonist Andrzej Olejniczak.
Venue: the Piwnica Pod Baranami cellar club at 27 Rynek Glowny
(Grand Sq.)
July
17
9
p.m.
Estionia’s young saxophonist Raul Soot plays with Poland’s
maverick drummer Jacek Kochan and his ensemble.
Venue: the Piwnica Pod Baranami cellar club at 27 Rynek Glowny
(Grand Sq.)
July
18
8 p.m.
Poland’ saxophonist
Henryk Miskiewicz plays with his Full Drive II ensemble.
Venue: Drukarnia Podgorze club at 1 Nadwislanska street.
9
p.m.
France’s Bertrand Ravalard Quartet.
Venue: the Piwnica Pod Baranami cellar club at 27 Rynek Glowny
(Grand Sq.).
July
19
From
6 p.m. to 2 a.m.
Open-air jazz concert features Italy’s Nuevo Tango Ensamble
& Gabriele Mirabassi, France’s Bertrand Ravalard
Quartet, Norway’s The Core, Austria’s Alex Deutsch Trio
plus Poland’s vocalist Urszula Dudziak and Papaya
Show,
Venue: Plac Szczepanski square.
From
6 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Open-air jazz concert features
Krakow’s ensemble, Funk de Nite, with USA’s Bryan Corbett
plus Cyprus’ Petsteppers.
Venue: Plac Nowy square.
From
10 p.m. to 2 a.m.
Jazz concerts take place in
the following clubs Piwnica Pod Baranami club at 27 Rynek Glowny
(Grand Sq.), Harris Piano Jazz Club at 28 Rynek
Glowny central square, Piec'Art at 12 Szewska street, Alchemia
at 5 Estery street and Plac Nowy square, U Muniaka at 3
Florianska street, Drukarnia at 1 Nadwislanska street.
July
20
9
p.m.
duo of Austria’s accomplished saxophonist Christoph Pepe
Auer and drummer Manu Delago.
Venue: Piwnica Pod Baranami cellar club at 27 Rynek Glowny
(Grand Sq.)
July
21
8
p.m.
Mikolaj Trzaska / Franz
Hautzinger Duo.
Venue: Alchemia club,
5 Estery street at Plac Nowy square.
9
p.m.
Poland’s duo of vocalist Inga Lewandowska and pianist Kuba
Stankiewicz.
Venue: the Piwnica Pod Baranami cellar club at 27 Rynek Glowny
(Grand Sq.)
July
22
9
p.m.
Duo of USA’s Polish-born bassist Bronislaw Suchanek and
young jazz pianist Dominik Wania.
Venue: the Piwnica Pod Baranami cellar club at 27 Rynek Glowny
(Grand Sq.)
July
23
8
p.m.
Poland's Ola Tomaszewska Quartet.
Venue: Harris Piano Jazz Bar at 28 Rynek
Glowny (Grand Square)
9
p.m.
Poland’s Tomasz Grochot
Quintet.
Venue: the Piwnica Pod Baranami cellar club at 27 Rynek Glowny
(Grand Sq.)
July
24
9
p.m.
Poland's Trio RGG.
Venue: the Piwnica Pod Baranami cellar club at 27 Rynek Glowny
(Grand Sq.)
July
25
9
p.m.
Poland’s saxophonist Wojciech Staroniewicz’s
"Alternations".
Venue: the Piwnica Pod Baranami cellar club at 27 Rynek Glowny
(Grand Sq.)
July
26
7
p.m.
Concert
‘Young Piano Talents’ features Poland’s duo of pianists
Pawel Kaczmarczyk and Wojtek Groborz plus the former
performing with his ensemble.
Venue: Radio Krakow building at 22 Slowackiego street.
9
p.m.
Poland’s pianist Krzysztof Herdzin and his trio.
Venue: Piwnica Pod Baranami cellar club at 27 Rynek Glowny
(Grand Sq.)
July
27
7
p.m.
USA’s
rising star pianist Eldar Djangirov plays with his trio.
Venue: Radio Krakow building at 22 Slowackiego street.
9
p.m.
Turkey’s pianist Uraz Kivaner performs with his quartet.
Venue: the Piwnica Pod Baranami cellar club at 27 Rynek Glowny
(Grand Sq.)
July
28
9
p.m.
Berlin's Kattorna ensemble of young Polish and Danish jazzmen.
Venue: the Piwnica Pod Baranami cellar club at 27 Rynek Glowny
(Grand Sq.)
July
29
9
p.m.
Finland’s saxophonist Joonatan Rautio and Poland’s
vibraphone player Dominik Bukowski play with their quartet.
Venue: the Piwnica Pod Baranami cellar club at 27 Rynek Glowny
(Grand Sq.)
July
30
8
p.m.
Poland’s Rafal Sarnecki plus Pawel Kaczmarczyk.
Venue: Harris Piano Jazz Bar at 28 Rynek
Glowny (Grand Square)
9
p.m.
Poland’s guitarist Maciej Grzywacz performs with
his quartet and Canada’s drummer Tyler Hornby and USA’s
Jim Branon..
Venue: the Piwnica Pod Baranami cellar club at 27 Rynek Glowny
(Grand Sq.)
July
31
9
p.m.
Poland’s quartet, Damage Control, of violinist Adam Baldych,
keyboardist Pawel Tomaszewski, bassist Piotr Zaczek, and
drummer Cezary Konrad.
Venue: the Piwnica Pod Baranami cellar club at 27 Rynek Glowny
(Grand Sq.)
August
1
9
p.m.
Poland’s Piotr Wylezol Trio.
Venue: the Piwnica Pod Baranami cellar club at 27 Rynek Glowny
(Grand Sq.)
August
2
8
p.m.
The concluding festival concert features Poland’s jazz
ensembles, Laboratorium and Leszek Kulakowski Group with
USA’s Eddie Henderson.
Venue: the Piwnica Pod Baranami cellar club at 27 Rynek Glowny
(Grand Sq.)
August
3
8
p.m.
Open-air concert features Poland’s Jarek Smietana
Group plus special guest Hamiet Bluiett in
Venue: Radio Krakow hall at 22
Slowackiego street.
8
p.m.
Poland’s Max Klezmer Band performs jazzy music
inspired by traditional Jewish tunes.
Venue: Harris Piano Jazz Bar at 28 Rynek
Glowny (Grand Square)
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