The festival, named after the legendary Polish jazz musician, will feature concerts, film screenings and meetings at Warsaw's Atlantic cinema and Polish Radio’s Witold Lutosławski Concert Studio.
“This year, for two days, we will be presenting Krzysztof Komeda's musical output in a diverse way, trying to show it from various perspectives,” said organizer Iwona Strzelczyk-Wojciechowska.
“Our festival is an attempt to confront Polish and foreign artists who are inspired by the work of this famous Polish musician," she added.
The event is set to kick off on Friday at Warsaw’s Atlantic cinema with a screening of Janusz Majewski’s Jazz Outsider, followed by a meeting with the director as well as Polish jazz legend Michał Urbaniak.
Jazz Outsider is a musical documentary film about Adam Jędrzejowski, an outstanding jazz drummer who was a member of the famous Krzysztof Komeda and Andrzej Trzaskowski ensembles during the "golden age" of Polish jazz in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
On Saturday, the festival will move to Polish Radio’s Witold Lutosławski Concert Studio for a special concert by the Piotr Schmidt Quintet entitled “The Unknown Komeda 1967."
The musicians will perform recently rediscovered and previously unknown compositions by Komeda that were originally part of his Meine Süsse Europäische Heimat – My Sweet European Homeland project from 1967, of which Komeda spoke as his most outstanding work.
The manuscripts for the compositions were found by researchers at the National Library in Warsaw earlier this year.
The discovery was made in the composer’s archives donated to the library by members of his family several years ago.
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Source: PAP