Andrzej Kurylewicz Quintet

Andrzej Kurylewicz (born October 24, 1932 in Lwów, died April 12, 2007 in Konstancin-Jeziorna), was a Polish jazz musician, composer, pianist, trombonist and conductor.

He began playing music at the age of 6, in Music School in Lwów. After World War II, Kurylewicz was forced to leave his hometown (see: Repatriation of Poles) and settled with family in Gliwice. In 1950 he became a student of the State Musicial College in Kraków, in class of piano under supervision of Henryk Sztompka as well as Stanislaw Wiechowicz. In 1954 Kurylewicz, who was a member of pioneer jazz band Melomani, was expelled from the school for playing then-forbidden jazz.

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