Timeline · in context
Polish jazz
in its time
The same years across three lanes: Polish jazz, the history of Poland and jazz worldwide. You can see how the music answered its moment.
Polish jazzHistory of PolandJazz worldwide
1956
First Jazz Festival in Sopot
Poznań June and the political thaw
1958
Jazz Jamboree begins in Warsaw
1959
Miles Davis, Kind of Blue
1965
The Polish Jazz series launches
1966
Komeda records Astigmatic
1967
John Coltrane dies
1968
The March 1968 events
1969
Krzysztof Komeda dies
ECM Records is founded
1970
December 1970
Jazz fusion takes off
1974
Urbaniak and Dudziak in the USA, fusion
1976
Seifert, Man of the Light
1980
August 1980, Solidarity
1981
Martial law is declared
1989
Round Table talks and elections
1991
The digital era and a standards revival
1995
Yass: the Tricity band Miłość
1997
Stańko, Litania on ECM
2004
Poland joins the European Union
2007
Jazz in streaming and online
2008
Wasilewski Trio, January (ECM)
2018
Tomasz Stańko dies