Zbigniew Namysłowski

Polish jazz musician (1939–2022)

Zbigniew Jacek Namysłowski (9 September 1939 – 7 February 2022) was a Polish jazz alto saxophonist, flautist, cellist, trombonist, pianist and composer.

Life and career

Namysłowski was born in Warsaw, Poland,^[1] on 9 September 1939.^[2] He performed on the Krzysztof Komeda album Astigmatic recorded in 1965.^[1] He collaborated with such artists as Janusz Muniak, Leszek Możdżer, Vladislav Sendecki, Michał Urbaniak, and Andrzej Trzaskowski. Namysłowski died on 7 February 2022, at the age of 82.^[3]

Selected discography

Lola (1964; Decca)
Zbigniew Namyslowski Quartet (muza XL0305) recorded 1966 Poland vol 6
Krzysztof Komeda: Astigmatic (1966)
Winobranie (1973)
Kuyaviak Goes Funky (1975)
Zbigniew Namyslowski (1977)
Jasmin Lady (1978)
Future Talk (1979)
Air Condition (1981)
Open (1987)
Without A Talk (1991)
The Last Concert (1992)
Secretly & Confidentially (1993)
Zbigniew Namysłowski & Zakopane Highlanders (1995)
Cy to blues cy nie blues (1997)
Dances (1997)
3 Nights (1998)
Mozart Goes Jazz (1998)
Jazz & Folk - Namyslowski Quartet & Górale (2000)
Go! (2003)
Standards (2003)
Assymetry (2006)
Live at Kosmos, Berlin 1965 (2008)
Nice & Easy (2009)

Sideman

Krzysztof Komeda Astigmatic (1966)
Laszlo Gardony Quartet Reggae for Zbiggy (1984)

References

^ ^a ^b Colin Larkin, ed. (1992). The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music (First ed.). Guinness Publishing. pp. 1791/2. ISBN 0-85112-939-0.
^ "Zbigniew Namysłowski | Płyty muzyka w Archiwum Polskiego Rocka 1961 - 2019". Zbigniew Namysłowski | Płyty muzyka w Archiwum Polskiego Rocka 1961 - 2019 (in Polish). Retrieved 23 March 2019.
^ Zbigniew Namysłowski nie żyje. Legendarny jazzman miał 82 lata. "Planował koncerty w najbliższych tygodniach" (in Polish)

External links

https://web.archive.org/web/20070306183150/http://zbigniew.namyslowski.com/zneng.html
Official website (in Polish)
Zbigniew Namysłowski at Culture.pl
Zbigniew Namysłowski discography at Discogs
Zbigniew Namysłowski at IMDb