Lublin Jazz Festival

Śpiewnik Nahornego Made in #jazzUMCS (PL)

In order to save from the obliteration the greatest achievements of Polish music, the organizers of the Lublin Jazz Festival invite to the program “Nahorny’s Songbook”. Mariusz Bogdanowicz prepares the programme with students of Jazz and Entertainment Music of UMCS in Lublin. Włodzimierz Nahorny, a composer and legend of Polish jazz will perform in the concert. Włodzimierz Nahorny’s songs, similar to his jazz compositions, constitute a permanent heritage of Polish popular music and over the years they have become the equivalent of American standards, repeatedly performed and reinterpreted by successive generations of musicians. The project “Śpiewnik Nahornego” is also part of the idea of ​​engaging students in artistic direction to serious artistic activities, who can thus gain their first stage experience, appearing alongside professionals.

The best vocalists studying at Jazz and Entertainment Music at the Faculty of Arts of UMCS will sing songs by Włodzimierz Nahorny. The program will contain twelve songs of the Master.

The artistic patron and the initiator of the project is Mariusz Bogdanowicz. The first concert “Nahorny songbook made in #jazzUMCS” took place in April 2017.

Włodzimierz Nahorny – piano
Mariusz Bogdanowicz – bass
Piotr Biskupski – drums

Włodzimierz Nahorny – pianist, saxophonist, flautist, composer and arranger of jazz, entertainment, theater and film music. He is a graduate of PWSM in Sopot. He won many awards at competitions and festivals in Poland and abroad. The most important of them are: 1st solo and team prize at Jazz nad Odrą 64; Second prize at the Competition of Young Jazz Musicians in Vienna in 1966; First prize at the 1967 Jazz Festival in Vienna, which he took from Duke Ellington; 1st prize at the Polish Song Festival in Opole, in  1972 and 1973. He is the composer of the most famous post-war Polish song Her Portrait. He has collaborated with the legendary Gdansk BIM-BOM, with Andrzej Trzaskowski, Andrzej Kurylewicz and finally with Breakouts during their greatest popularity. It is an indefinable personality. His biography is almost the whole history of Polish jazz. Since its debut, it has aroused widespread recognition. An outstanding, unique composer, one of the first Polish multi-instrumentalists. His idiom is a concept as broad as the infinite range of his artistic achievements. He is a man of unprecedented sensitivity and modesty, at the same time full of energy and innovative concepts. His music is poetry and reflection. Among Polish jazzmen, the most Slavic and romantic creator. Critics named his Chopin of Jazz.

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