Scenes of Polish jazz
Wikimedia Commons (kolaż) · CC BY-SA 4.0Warszawa
The capital of institutional Polish jazz: the Polskie Nagrania studios, the Jazz Jamboree festival, clubs and radio programmes that shaped the scene from the 1950s onward.
Wikimedia Commons (kolaż) · CC BY-SA 3.0Kraków
A city of jazz cellars and the early modern scene. The circle around the Helikon club and Piwnica pod Baranami helped create the language of Polish jazz.
Michał Słupczewski · CC BYGdańsk / Trójmiasto
The cradle of yass and the independent improvised scene. The Tricity underground of the 1990s gave Polish jazz a new, rebellious energy.
Wikimedia Commons (kolaż) · CC BY-SA 4.0Katowice
The city of the first jazz programme at a music academy in Europe. Academic jazz education shaped many generations of musicians.
Wikimedia Commons (kolaż) · CC BY-SA 3.0Wrocław
A city of festivals and an open scene, with a strong tradition of jazz concerts and events that connect jazz with other genres.
Emptywords · CC BY-SA 4.0Sopot
The site of the first Polish jazz festival in 1956, the symbolic beginning of the open jazz scene in the country.
Kanion · CC0Lublin
The largest city of the Lublin region and a hub of the contemporary jazz scene in eastern Poland. Since 2008 the Centrum Kultury has organised the Lublin Jazz Festiwal here, the largest jazz festival in the region.
Antekbojar · CC BY-SA 4.0Zamość
A Renaissance Old Town on the UNESCO list in the Lublin Voivodeship. Since 1982 the Jazz na Kresach festival (Zamość Jazz Festival) has been held on Rynek Wielki, run by the Zamojski Klub Jazzowy im. Mieczysława Kosza.