7th June, 7 pm (bar) / music 8 pm, Jazz Cafe POSK
Tickets £15 on the door and Eventbrite:
A special concert commemorating the extraordinary actress and singer Kalina Jędrusik, star of the extremely popular Polish TV show “Kabaret Starszych Panów” (Elderly Gentlemen’s Cabaret) made for TV in the late 1950s to mid-1960s. Songs from this show gained a long-lasting nationwide popularity, becoming Polish standards. On the 95th anniversary of the actress’s birth, we recall her greatest hits, written by Jerzy Wasowski and Jeremi Przybora, in jazz arrangements.
Line up:
Marta Mathea Radwan – vocal
Anita Łazińska – piano
Luke Fowler – bass
Eric Ford- drums
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 is co-founder of the Marta Association of Polish Jazz Musicians in London. 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. She also had the pleasure of collaboration with great musicians of the Polish jazz scene like the Leszek Kułakowski Trio, Piotr Damasiewicz, Maciej Sikała.
Luke Fowler after spending his formative years in Perth Western Australia, studying at WAAPA until 2005, he moved to the UK where he has spent the last 15 years. Luke opened a Jazz Venue in South London called the Junction which soon became a hub for some of the best musicians in the UK, featuring the likes of Jim Mullin, Dave O’Higgins, Alex Garnett plus some of the new younger sensations coming out of London, including, Emma Rawicz and Rob Luft. After Graduating with his master’s in jazz performance at London’s acclaimed Guildhall of Music in 2020, Luke has been busy running a series of projects which he has presented around London.
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.
Video 1 („Wyrzezbilam twoja twarz w powietrzu” – live):
Wyrzeźbiłam Twoją twarz w powietrzu live at Norden Farm
Open House – Polish Underground Movement Study
Collecting Cultures: Central and Eastern Europe –
