Andrzej Jagodzinski

One of the best pianists in Poland, composer and arranger was born in 1953. He received his degrees from the Frederick Chopin Conservatory where he studied French Horn while already engaged by the Polish Radio and TV Symphony Orchestra. In 1979 Jagodzinski participated in the Old Jazz Meeting Zlota Tarka and received first prize for "pianist of the year".
He has played with some of the best jazz groups in Poland including The Old Timers, Swing Session, String Connection, The Zbigniew Namyslowski Quartet, The Janusz Muniak Quartet, The Big Warsaw Band, Quintessence, The Tomasz Szukalski Quartet, The Jan Ptaszyn Wroblewski Quartet and Jarek Smietana's Polish All Star.
Jagodzinski has toured in most European countries, Australia, and the United States, India, Kuwait, Cuba and the former Soviet Union and has been representing Polish jazz for the past 16 years at: Jazz Yatra-Bombay, Ost-West Nurnberg, Jazz in Europe-Paris, Skane Festivalen in Malmo, Edinburgh Art Festival, Ankara Music Festival, Leverkusener Jazz Tage, Istanbul International Festival and in all the major Polish jazz festivals. Since 1981 Jagodzinski has been performing with "Poland's first lady in jazz", Ewa Bem.

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Adam Cegielski

Bass player is a graduate of the Frederick Chopin Conservatory in Warsaw.
With Central Heating Trio he has won prizes in The Europe Jazz Competition in Belgium and The European Jazz Competition in Leverkusen - Germany.
1989-1991 was a member of Kazimierz Jonkisz Quartet, 1991-1993 has played with the Quintessence Quintet and 1992-1995 has played with the Kuba Stankiewicz Quartet with whom he recorded "Northern Song" (GOWI Records 1994) - voted best record of the year by the reader's pool of Polish Jazz Forum Magazine.
Cegielski also worked with Ewa Bem, Tomasz Stanko, Zbigniew Namyslowski, Wojciech Karolak, Henryk Miskiewicz, Zbigniew Preisner, Jan AP Kaczmarek.
For many years Cegielski devoted his time to jazz and classical music and played with the top-ranked Sinfonia Varsovia Orchestra, with whom he recorded several records under the direction of Lord Yehudi Menuhin, Krzysztof Penderecki, Jerzy Maksymiuk.
He recorded on the soundtracks of Krzysztof Kieslowki's movies "White" and "Red", and also recorded a film music with jazz trumpeter Tomasz Stanko - "A Farewell to Maria" (GOWI Records).
In 1994 he received annual "Krzysztof Komeda Award" by the Polish Culture Foundation for his significant musical talent.

He has been playing with the Andrzej Jagodzinski Trio since 1993.
Starting 1994 Cegielski has been also teaching double-bass at the Faculty of Jazz of the Chopin High School of Music in Warsaw, and since 2005 he serves as a director of this Jazz Faculty.

Czeslaw Bartkowski

Jazz drummer. One of the most important persons of the Polish Jazz stage. He has been playing jazz incessantly for the last 45 years, performing with outstanding Polish and foreign musicians.
He made his debut in 1960 with Jerzy Paklulski "Far Quartet", played with Krzysztof Komeda Quintet, Zbigniew Namyslowski Quartet, Niemen "Enigmatic", Adam Makowicz-Tomasz Stanko Trio, Jan "Ptaszyn" Wroblewski Band, Michal Urbaniak and Urszula Dudziak Group, with Wojtek Karolak, Henryk Majewski and many others.
Bartkowski also worked with Art Farmer, Aladar Pege, Ben Webster, and Clark Terry.
He performed at the Newport Jazz Festival, Pori Jazz Festival, Montreux Jazz Festival, The North Sea Jazz Festival, Berliner Jazz Tage, Molde Jazz Festival, The New York Jazz Festival, Tauranga, Comablain La Tour, India Jazz Festival...
He is a Honorary Member of Tauranga Jazz festival Society and The New Orleans Clubs New Castle on Tyne England; has been awarded for his significant contribution to the country's cultural development and artistic education.
Since 1993 - member of Andrzej Jagodzinski Trio. Since 1993 he has been also teaching drums at the Faculty of Jazz at the High School of Music in Warsaw.
Czeslaw Bartkowski endorses PAISTE cymbals and OSCA sticks.