The Targi Kielce Jazz Festival Memorial to Miles will add venues beyond the Kielce Cultural Center (KCK) this year, including a former synagogue and the Targi Kielce Congress Center.
“This year’s edition goes beyond the KCK building and beyond the traditional concert weekend,” said Targi Kielce CEO Andrzej Mochoń.
Admission on September 12–13 is free.
Co-organized by Targi Kielce and KCK, the festival opens Friday, Sept. 12, at the former Synagogue on Warszawska Street with a trumpet–saxophone duo: Rafał Gęborek and Mikołaj Trzaska. On Saturday, Sept. 13, the Świętokrzyska Orchestra plays a free concert at the Targi Kielce Congress Center with Włodzimierz Kiniorski, Andrzej Chochoł and Radosław Nowakowski.
A surprise “Podsłuchy x Miles” set is scheduled for Sept. 17 on KCK’s Small Stage. The lineup is undisclosed, but the focus will be jazz.
Main-stage shows at KCK follow: on Friday, Sept. 26, Joanna Duda Trio blends jazz, classical and ambient, followed by Amsterdam soul-jazz group Roseye led by Tallulah Rose. Saturday, Sept. 27, features Avishai Cohen’s Big Vicious, mixing jazz, electronics and rock, plus guitarist Szymon Mika’s AGMA project.
The festival closes Sunday, Sept. 28, with Jerzy Małek International Quintet and Polish fusion veterans Laboratorium.
“It’s very important to me that the band’s founders—Janusz Grzywacz, Marek Stryszowski and Krzysztof Ścierański—will perform,” Mochoń said. They will be joined by Marek Raduli and Marcin Ścierański.
Held in memory of Miles Davis—one of jazz’s most influential musicians—the festival has run for 23 years at KCK, beside a statue unveiled in 2001 that organizers describe as the world’s first honoring the artist.
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Source: PAP