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Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski
Kalisz, Poland • 1936-03-27 – 2024-05-07
Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski is credited on 367 releases across 121 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1958–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
367
Pressings credited
121
Albums
8
Decades active
7
In collections
Biography
Jan "Ptaszyn" Wróblewski (27 March 1936 – 7 May 2024) was a Polish jazz musician, composer and arranger. He played the tenor and baritone saxophones. Wróblewski began his musical career in 1956 at the first Sopot Jazz Festival in Krzysztof Komeda's group. In 1958, he became the first Polish jazz musician to perform at the Newport Jazz Festival as a member of the International Youth Band. He toured around the world and for a decade, beginning in 1958, he directed the Polish Radio Jazz Studio. He was associated with Third Stream. Wróblewski also hosted the DJ of Europe's longest running jazz program, broadcast weekly by the Polskie Radio Program III from 1970. Wróblewski died on 7 May 2024, at the age of 88.
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Credited work
367 releases · 121 albums · active 1958–2025
- Performance · 645
- Other credits · 251
- Production · 2
Studios: Polskie Radio · Congress Hall, Warsaw · Studio Polskiego Radia Wrocław · Jazz Jamboree Festival
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Maryla Rodowicz
- Alibabki
- Novi Singers
- Andrzej Dąbrowski
- Polish Jazz Quartet
- Grand Standard Orchestra
- Danuta Rinn
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