Komeda - A Private Life in Jazz - Magdalena Grzebałkowska
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Komeda - A Private Life in Jazz - Magdalena Grzebałkowska
Magdalena Grzebałkowska [+]
Journalist and Author
A history graduate of the University of Gdańsk, Magdalena Grzebałkowska is a multi-award-winning journalist and author of four books of non-fiction. In addition to her biography of Krzysztof Komeda, she has also written best-selling biographies of the Polish poet-priest, Jan Twardowski; and the Beksińskis, (artist father, Zdzisław, and music journalist-son, Tomasz). Her book of reportage on the Polish experience of the Reclaimed Territories and the repatriation of Poles following the Second World War: 1945: War and Peace (2015) won the Newsweek Prize and the Nike Literary Award (audience’s choice).
Magdalena Grzebałkowska is a popular speaker at the country’s many book festivals and makes frequent appearances in the Polish media.
Description
Komeda moves to Warsaw, now the centre of Polish jazz. He plays in Stodoła and Hybrydy, where he gives Urszula Dudziak her first major gig. Roman ‘Gucio’ Dyląg explains how Komeda composed outlines for his film music and encouraged each performer to improvise within these outlines to the scenes in each film.