How the Polish Jazz Festival ‘mobilised the diaspora’
The festival is preparing an expanded second edition in London next month on the tails of the growing 'brand' of Polish jazz
News By Ciaran Donnelly | 18 August 2026
As it prepares to return for its expanded second edition, London’s Polish Jazz Festival says its proposition of packaging the genre’s artists into a festival has in some cases tripled or quadrupled the live audiences for the style.
Returning between 11-27 September to multiple venues across London, organisers say highlights will include “pioneering” vocalist Urszula Dudziak, pianist Leszek Możdżer, contemporary groups EABS and Wojtek Mazolewski Quintet, and Chopin Residue, an ambitious multidisciplinary project reimagining the music of…
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