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For the jazz-listening public, even the cognoscenti, when European improvisers and European labels come up in conversation, there are a central few countries that appear as the only beacons in European jazz—England, France, Holland (via ICP) and Germany (and possibly Italy to some small, Gaslini-an degree). Portugal, Sweden, and Denmark get very little mention, and one can almost forget about the former Eastern Bloc countries. To be sure, Russia, Poland and the Czech Republic all have a small but vigorous scene of improvisers and a number of labels to record them—the storied Czech label Supraphon and Muza and Poljazz in Poland released a number of significant titles in the ’70s and ’80s by artists like Slide Hampton, Jiri Stivin, Jemeel Moondoc, Tomasz Stanko (a trumpeter who records for ECM and was on Manfred Schoof’s seminal European Echoes) and Krzysztof Komeda. Currently, one of the most rapidly growing and exceedingly refined Polish labels is Marek Winiarski’s Not Two Records.

Founded in 1998, Not Two was the outgrowth of an interest in jazz that started in the ’60s for Winiarski. A metallurgist by education, Winiarski began to see jazz concerts in Warsaw at the famed Jazz Jamboree Festival, one of the principal jazz festivals in Europe: “the only chance to listen to American big names was late October every year when the Warsaw Jazz Jamboree Festival was held. We used to go to Warsaw every year and were really privileged to meet Mingus, Monk, Dizzy, Gil Evans, Miles, Sonny Rollins and others.
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