LESZEK KUŁAKOWSKI
Genres: Third Stream, Post Bop, 21st Century Acoustic Fusion, World Fusion, Post-Fusion Contemporary, Pop, Art Song, Folk, Jazz Related Soundtracks, Avant-Garde Jazz, 21st Century Modern • Poland

Polish pianist and composer, born in 1955 from discogs Leszek Kułakowski, an outstanding composer and jazz pianist, is deemed a “jazz visionary” by music critics. As a music theorist and full professor who lectures in composition, he heads the Department of Jazz at the Gdańsk Academy of Music, where he established the Jazz and Popular Music course. He is the founder and artistic director of two international events, the annual Komeda Jazz Festival, held for the twenty-second time in November 2016, and the biennial Krzysztof Komeda Composers’ Competition, the only competition of its kind in Poland. Leszek Kułakowski unquestionably ranks amongst Poland’s elite jazz artists in several crucial categories: total artists, as a composer, pianist, arranger and theorist; composers; ensemble leaders; workaholics. These four categories point to a jazzman of excellence, with a creative, charismatic personality and enormous artistic potential, whose presence on the Polish jazz scene can be ascribed to an intuitive melding of tremendous read more...