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Jazz Jamboree
The world's greatest artists, such as Miles Davis, Stan Getz, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, and many other jazz giants, perform at the Jazz Jamboree Festival. Under gloomy communist oppression, it was just a "window on the world", a little piece of America in the midst of Central and Eastern Europe subjugated by the Soviets. The Jazz Jamboree Festival was somehow so much more than just an artistic event: it embodied and vocalised a young generation's protests against the enslavement of reality, the limitations, and conformism in communist Poland. This was not an event to be missed, refreshingly unique east of Łaba, to which the jazz giants of America could attend without any problems, allowing them to perform behind the iron curtain, and sample the inimitable adoration flowing from the audience.
In independent Poland, the Festival became ideology-free and lost much of its nonconformist and elitist attitude. Consequently, its popularity and meaning began to decline. Jazz Jamboree organisers are currently working to revive the festival to its former glory. Last year, Warsaw played host to such legendary jazz artists as Jack de Johnette, Manhattan Transfer, and Take 6.
Photo archive - Jazz jamboree Agency
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