There are only few groups in Europe which, independently of the tastes of their audiences and the popularity of their music, have so long time maintained their direction of style.

The Jazz Band Ball Orchestra from Krakow, Poland, one of the most well known European jazz formation, have taken this course.

In 1962 at the Music Academy of Krakow, a group of jazz-minded students got together and founded the Band. Since its foundation the JBBO has followed its course of success.

The Band has been fully professional since 1972 and has played in almost every European country. From 1979 the group has played regularly at the greatest traditional jazz spectacle in the world, the Jazz Jubilee in Sacramento, USA. Owing to its great success, the Group has been invited several times to Vancouver and Victoria in Canada and has played in Florida, Nevada, Oregon and Washington. In 1983 in Sacramento was founded the JBBO Fan Club.

In recent years the Band played at huge numbers of festivals, among others, again in Sacramento, Den Haag and Eindhoven (Holland), Marsiac and Luneray (France), Haugesund (Norway), Lichtensteig, Zurich, Luzern, Biel and Ascona (Switzerland) and had performed at many special events with Bill Ramsey, Silvia Droste and Jane Harrington.

Their repertoire is very widely faced : music of L. Armstrong is the foundation of JBBO's musical machinery. Satchmo's tradition, LuNceford-Goodman-Ellington's type of swing, the pitch of boogie, elements of be-bop, echoes of the rhythm 'n' blues, Latin fury all that well mixed up with edition of show and creative parody - this is the shortest definition of JBBO's music which, in its fourth decade is applauded by fans from West and East.

  • Jan Kudyk - tp., vocal

  • Marek Michalak - tb.

  • Jacek Mazur - ts., cl.

  • Wojtek Groborz - p.

  • Teofil Lisiecki - b.

  • Wiesław Jamioł - dr.
  1. Paul ChambersCOUNT BASIE
  2. LOU DONALDSON
  3. DUKE ELLINGTON
  4. GEORGE BENSON
  5. KETER BETTS
  6. OSCAR BROWN JR.
  7. ORNETTE COLEMAN
  8. BEN COLLIER
  9. MILES DAVIS
  10. FREDDIE GREEN
  11. GRANT GREEN
  12. HENRY GRIMES
  13. EUGENE GREY
  14. ARTHUR HARPER
  15. GEORGE V. JOHNSON, JR.
  16. NELSON HARRISON
  17. FREDDIE HUBBARD
  18. PHILLY JOE JONES
  19. B.B. KING
  20. BYARD LANCASTER
  21. JON LUCIEN
  22. HUGH MASEKELA
  23. Osmany ParedesGIOVANNI MAZZARINO
  24. PETE MINGER
  25. WES MONTGOMERY
  26. LEE MORGAN
  27. HOWARD MOSS
  28. FAMOUDOU DON MOYE
  29. HORACE OTT
  30. OSMANY PAREDES
  31. OSCAR PETERSON
  32. ALVIN QUEEN
  33. ERNEST RANGLIN
  34. LOU RAWLS
  35. FREDDIE REDD
  36. MAX ROACH
  37. MICKEY ROKER
  38. ARCHIE SHEPP
  39. ARTIE SIMMONS
  40. JEFFERY SMITH
  41. DR. LONNIE SMITH
  42. PHILIP MICHAEL THOMAS
  43. HARVEY THOMPSON
  44. RANDY WESTON
  45. WILLIE WILLIAMS
  46. JOE LEE WILSON

 

JC with drummer, Nello Toscano and G. Mazzarino

Angelo Unia Quartet, his wife Fugi and JC

Unknown DJ

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Dr. Lonnie Smith - Dizzy Gillespie and Spider Martin

Philly Joe Jones - Arthur Ha4rper

Below Bruno Filippo plays banjo with Armstrong

Marlon's Band

                    

                           

Stafford James, Diva Joan Cartwright and Randy Weston

Gary Lawrence Trio

Stafford James, Diva Joan Cartwright and Randy Weston

Gary Lawrence Trio

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