The Komeda Jazz Festival and the Krzysztof Komeda Composers Competition has been held in Słupsk, Poland each November since 1995. The festival and the competition is dedicated to the memory of the Polish musician Krzysztof Komeda.
Leszek Kułakowski, jazz pianist and composer, is the initiator of this event and was also the first one to arrange Komeda’s music for symphonic orchestra.
Famous quotes containing the words jazz and/or festival:
“Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children’s party taken over by the elders.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
“Three times a year all your males shall appear before the LORD your God at the place that he will choose: at the festival of unleavened bread, at the festival of weeks, and at the festival of booths. They shall not appear before the LORD empty-handed; all shall give as they are able, according to the blessing of the LORD your God that he has given you.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Deuteronomy 16:16,17.