Christopher Komeda's big time began back at the time of the I Sopot Jazz Festival in August 1956, but his ties with music were much older. Born in Poznan in 1931 he took piano lessons since his ...

To listen to Komeda is to discover a world of notes in the space between chords, a structure in silence, a musical image that is able to contain almost everything precisely because it is nearly ...

Researchers at the National Library in Warsaw say they have come across autograph manuscripts of several previously unknown compositions by the late Polish jazz pianist and composer Krzysztof Komeda.

Innovator with a complex of tradition, romanticist expressing himself in the contemporary idiom, poet of piano - this is Krzysztof Komeda, one of those musicians who have widened the essence of jazz.

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. The Komeda Project is pianist Andrea Keller and trumpeter Miroslav Bukovsky's response to the jazz ...

“Komeda: A Private Life in Jazz” is the title of a biography of Krzysztof Komeda, the prominent Polish jazz pianist and composer, which was published in the UK earlier this month. Written by ...

Krzysztof Komeda was a jazz pianist and film composer. With compositions like the lullaby for Rosemary's Baby (1968) by Roman Polanski, Komeda succeeded in writing his own chapter in the history of ...

Behind every great film is a great soundtrack. Here are 6 must-know Polish composers that are masters in their field. Portion of original. Original credit: Krzysztof Komeda, photo: Marek Karewicz / ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The Komeda Project's Andrea Keller. Krzysztof Komeda was one of the most significant figures in Polish jazz. In his short life (he died ...

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