Krzysztof Komeda - The Father of Polish Jazz

Krzysztof Komeda (born Krzysztof Trzciński; 27 April 1931 – 23 April 1969)  is the single most important artist in the entire history of Polish Jazz and one of the founding fathers of European Jazz as we know it.  Komeda was an incredible artist, a constantly searching poet and he could find ways of individual expression of jazz inside himself, in Slavic lyricism, and in the traditions of Polish music.  He is widely credited as being one of the founding fathers of a uniquely European style in Jazz composition.