One of Poland’s most acclaimed jazz guitarists, Rafa? Sarnecki, will perform with his quintet on April 19 at the Jazz Balkan Showcase festival in Tirana. The band will present music from their latest album, “A View from The Treetop”.
The concert is part of the international JAZZ PO POLSKU “Around the World” project.
The Rafal Sarnecki Quintet will appear at the Balkan Jazz Showcase in its original lineup: Rafal Sarnecki (guitar), Lukasz Poprawski (alto saxophone), Piotr Wylezol (piano), Wojciech Pulcyn (double bass), and Patryk Dobosz (drums). The program will feature music from Sarnecki’s most recent album along with earlier compositions. The concert will take place at 7:30 PM at the Music School “Servete Maçi”, in the “Avni Mula” Hall.
The performance in Albania is part of the long-running international project JAZZ PO POLSKU “Around the World,” which promotes contemporary independent Polish music internationally. Today, the project has presented more than 250 events in 25 countries. This will be the fourth visit of a Polish jazz ensemble to Albania within the project.
The Rafa? Sarnecki Quintet has been performing in its current lineup since 2019.
The group’s music combines jazz with elements drawn from a wide range of musical styles in a playful and inventive way. Listeners can hear influences of country, metal, baroque music, boogie-woogie, and punk.
The Rafal Sarnecki Quintet exemplifies a group that creatively reinterprets the traditional language of jazz, bringing it freshness and new energy while remaining rooted in its heritage. The ensemble performs regularly both in Poland and internationally.
Sarnecki himself is one of the few Polish musicians to have successfully established a career on the American jazz scene, where he lived and worked for over a decade. He has performed with artists such as Randy Brecker, Mike Stern, and Grazyna Auguscik, and from 2009 to 2019 he was a member of the acclaimed U.S. ensemble Lucas Pino No-Net Nonet.
The JAZZ PO POLSKU “Around the World” project is co-financed by the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage through the Culture Promotion Fund. Partners of the concerts in Albania include the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Tirana and the Albanian Jazz Society.