Andrzej Jagodziński
He has played in stylistically very different line-ups, invariably with elite Polish musicians. Graduate of the Chopin Academy (now University) of Music in Warsaw, he has performed with, among others, Henryk Majewski’s Old Timers and Swing Session, Janusz Muniak Quartet, Zbigniew Namysłowski Quartet, Big Warsaw Band, Prowizorka Dżez Będ, String Connection, Quintessence, Tomasz Szukalski Quartet, Jarosław Śmietana’s Polish All Stars, and Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski’s Czwartet. Since 1987 he has been the permanent accompanist to singer Ewa Bem.
Acclaimed on all continents, Jagodziński has appeared at such prestigious festivals as Jazz Yatra in Bombay, Ost-West in Nuremberg, Jazz in Europe (Paris), Skane Festivalen in Malmö, the Edinburgh Art Festival, the Istanbul International Festival, the Ankara Music Festival, Leverkusener Jazz Tage, as well as all the leading jazz events in Poland.
The Andrzej Jagodziński Trio, which he formed with drummer Czesław Bartkowski and bassist Adam Cegielski, presents varied projects which include concerts of Polish jazz music in arrangements for classical string orchestra and featuring Polish artists: Grażyna Auguścik, Jadwiga Kotnowska, and Henryk Miśkiewicz.
The trio’s multi-award album Chopin, comprising jazz arrangements of music by Fryderyk Chopin, won, among others, the 1994 Fryderyk Award of the Polish music record industry and the Grand Prix Melomani ’94 awarded by the Łódź Music Lovers’ Society. Their next release, Chopin Once More, became a Golden Disc in 2000. This year, Jagodziński’s Requiem has been nominated for the 2023 Fryderyk Awards in the category of ‘Jazz Album of the Year’.
Photo by Paweł Cegielski
