Tygmont jazz club; photo - andysWarsaw’s top jazz club Tygmont has been included among the 100 best jazz clubs in the world by the American Down Beat magazine.
The American magazine has written that “this tiny all-wood cellar is Warsaw's jazz mainstay, with a programming that mostly includes Polish stars as well as weekly swing dance party and an annual festival organized by Poland’s Jazz Forum magazine”.
The Down Beat recommendation coincides with the 10th anniversary of Tygmont. It was founded on 27 January 2001 by two jazz enthusiasts – Marek Karewicz, photographer and organizer of jazz evens, and Krzysztof Boguszewski, a graduate of the Warsaw University of Technology.
It is also a wonderful birthday present to Marek Karewicz. One of the most colourful personalities on the Polish music scene who has chronicled the history of Polish jazz for over five decades now, he is seventy three this week.
Tygmont has attracted all the household names in Polish jazz, including Namyslowski, Karolak, Nahorny, Muniak, and Dudziak. Among the foreign stars who performed there, and left their autographs on the Visitors Wall, is Bobby McFerrin. (mk)