8.02.2025 Events, Music

Polish Jazz Goes To The Cinema! @ Jazz Cafe POSK

Marta Mathea Radwan Quartet will present a programme of jazz songs featured in Polish movies from 30’s to 80’s by great composers like Henryk Wars, Krzysztof Komeda, Andrzej Trzaskowski or Jerzy Duduś Matuszkiewicz.

Saturday 08 February 2025, Bar 7 pm / music 8 pm, Jazz Cafe POSK

Tickets £15 on the door and Eventbrite:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/marta-mathea-radwan-quartet-polish-jazz-goes-to-the-cinema-tickets-1134662739799

It will be a journey through golden time of Polish jazz filled with music and anecdotes, all set to a backdrop of clips and photos from great musical moments on film.

Line up:

Marta Mathea Radwan – voice

Anita Łazińska – keyboards

Jakub Cywiński – double bass

Eric Ford – drums

Marta Mathea Radwan is the award-winning conductor, composer, arranger, vocalist, and workshop leader. She has over 30 years experience on stage and in the music industry. Marta holds a doctoral degree from the F. Chopin University of Music in Warsaw with a specialism in jazz conducting. She works internationally, in Poland, Denmark and the United Kingdom. Currently she is a leader of several music projects in London including Offbeat Choirs, Norden Farm Centre for the Arts choirs, and others. She teaches at Brunel University London and actively performs as a jazz singer. www.mmradwan.com

Anita Łazińska is a versatile musician – vocalist, pianist, composer, graduate of the Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz (Poland). Currently a leader of Anita Łazińska Quartet – a band in which she presents her ideas of compositions and arrangements. Anita is also a member of H3O, Muze Voices and Wild Whispers – bands in which improvisation and searching for unusual sounds plays an important role. An active musician – she has been a part of projects such as All Souls’ Day Jazz Festival, Voicingers on Tour in London or WąbJazzno Festival (Poland). She also had the pleasure of collaboration with great musicians of the Polish jazz scene like the Leszek Kułakowski Trio, Piotr Damasiewicz, Maciej Sikała.

Jakub Cywiński is a double bass player and composer who currently explores his interest in collaborating with various contemporary composers and jazz musicians such as Ola Onabule, Marco Marconi, Partikel, Duncan Eagles Quartet among others. He studied double bass as a postgraduate at the Royal College of Music. His varied freelance career has taken him to India, Russia, Lebanon and other places around the world.

Eric Ford has been resident in London since late 2006, after 4 years in Paris. He enjoys working across the spectrum of music and has played across the globe and on around 60 albums. He’s performed at iconic venues such as Ronnie Scott’s and the Royal Albert Hall, and with musicians as diverse as Ronnie Laws, Marc Almond, Clare Teal, the London Jazz Orchestra and Jason Rebello. He’s also presented drum clinics in London and Beijing and has been a member of acclaimed contemporary jazz trio Partikel since 2009.

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