All that jazz

If you missed Wynton Marsalis' extraoridinary, triple-encore performance with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra on July 4, there's still a chance to revel in the rhythms of jazz greats at the Warsaw Summer Jazz Days festival, which runs through the end of the month. The festival, among Warsaw's major musical events this summer, features a number of concerts from other big names like Medeski, Scofield, Martin & Wood, Natalie Cole and Ornette Coleman and a number of smaller concerts from up-and-coming jazz musicians.

Medeski, Scofield, Martin & Wood (MSMW) are renowned for combining jazz, funk, punk, hip hop, soul and ethnic sounds to create a new direction of music. Natalie Cole, the daughter of jazz legend Nat King Cole, has become a fixture of the contemporary music scene not only in jazz circles but in mainstream pop and R&B as well. Ornette Coleman, a saxophone player and composer born in 1930 in Fort Worth, Texas, is considered one of the Pioneers of the American "free jazz" scene. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Music this year and a lifetime achievement Grammy award.

MSMW and Natalie Cole will perform at Warsaw's Torwar Stadium on July 11 and 16, respectively, while the Roma theater will host Ornette Coleman on July 18. Warsaw Summer Jazz Days will also put on a number of free concerts by jazz troupes from Poland, Romania and Belgium, which will be held at the newly opened Akwarium jazz club in Złote Tarasy through the rest of the month.

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