Time to mark the dates on the calendar!

The 34th edition of the Warsaw Summer Jazz Days festival is upon us!
From 3-6 July 2025, we will once again present the biggest stars of the contemporary jazz scene as well as great artists, who are appreciated by audiences in Poland and around the world!

6 July 2025

Barbara Drazkov - a prepared piano, that is, modified with various objects, sounds like many instruments: drums, bass guitar, bells, sometimes like electronic samples. Barbara Drazkov uses the prepared piano only acoustically - she creates live, using classical performance techniques, rhythmic-melodic structures reminiscent of layered looping motifs. Drazkov has been called a pianist-percussionist - her music is about groove, polyrhythm, polymetry and experimental timbres.

John Scofield Long Days Quartet feat. John Medeski - The leader of this band has been among the world's top jazz guitarists for decades, having played for years in Miles Davis' line-up. This year, John Scofield has formed a new quartet whose name is a recognition of the long summer days of July. Inviting John Medeski, Vincent Archer and Ted Poor to join him, he has put together a project full of funk and groove.

Nicholas Payton Quintet - New Orleans trumpeter, multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and composer Nicholas Payton continues the tradition of the great trumpet masters from the south of the United States. His playing style has been recognised by many of the artists he has worked with, including Ray Charles, Herbie Hancock, Wynton Marsalis, Cassandre Wilson and Esperanze Spalding.