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Andrzej Trzaskowski

Andrzej Trzaskowski (23 March 1933 – 16 September 1998) was a Polish jazz musician, composer and musicologist. From the mid-1950s onward, he was regarded as an authority on syncopated music.

Andrzej Trzaskowski (23 March 1933 – 16 September 1998) was a Polish jazz musician, composer and musicologist. From the mid-1950s onward, he was regarded as an authority on syncopated music. Biography Early life and education Andrzej Trzaskowski was born in Kraków on 23 March 1933. He began playing piano at age four and founded his first jazz band, Rhythm Quartet. He attended Jan III Sobieski High School in Kraków and collaborated with prominent Polish jazz pianists. His paternal grandfather, Bronisław Trzaskowski, established some of the first girls’ secondary schools in Poland. Trzaskowski died in Warsaw on 16 September 1998, aged 65. He is buried at the Powązki Military Cemetery. Selected recordings * The Wreckers (1960, Muza 0133) * Polish Jazz Vol. 4 (1965, Muza 0258) * Andrzej Trzaskowski Sextet Featuring Ted Curson “Seant” (1966, Muza 0378) References Further reading *Liner notes (in English) for the recording of Andrzej Trzaskowski’s Polish Jazz Quintet (includes a biographical sketch and an analysis of Trzaskowski’s jazz compositions) External links * *Andrzej Trzaskowski filmography at Film Polski

Era
Post-War
Lived
1933–1998
From
Poland
Born in
Kraków · died Warsaw
Known as
pianist, composer, jazz musician, film score composer, conductor, music critic
Instruments
piano
Genres
jazz

Contemporaries

Composers of the same nationality whose working lives overlapped — computed across all 11,984 dated composers in this library, not taken from any single article.