Andrzej Trzaskowski
Film score, Musical Artist
1933 – 1998
Who was Andrzej Trzaskowski?
Andrzej Trzaskowski was a Polish jazz composer and musicologist. Between 1959 and 1990, he composed the music and/or conducted the score for some thirty films.
A native of Kraków, Trzaskowski learned to play the piano as a child and, in 1951, at the age of eighteen, helped to form Melomani, one of the first Polish swing and bop groups. Between 1952 and 1957 he studied musicology at the city's Jagiellonian University, took private lessons in composition and contemporary music theory and was active at the experimental studio of Polish radio.
In 1958 he played and recorded with the Jazz Believers, a quintet which included Wojciech Karolak and Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski, and worked with another quintet, led by Jerzy Matuszkiewicz. The following year he formed his own hard bop group, the Wreckers, with which he toured the United States in 1962. As the leader of small groups, he performed and recorded with American musicians visiting Poland, such as Stan Getz in 1960 and Ted Curson in 1965-66. Many leading Polish musicians, including Zbigniew Namysłowski, Tomasz Stanko and Michał Urbaniak, played with his groups early in their careers.
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- Born
- Mar 23, 1933
Kraków - Also known as
- 안드레이 트르자스코스키
- Nationality
- Poland
- Profession
- Education
- Jagiellonian University
- Lived in
- Kraków
- Died
- Sep 16, 1998
Warsaw
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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