Włodzimierz Nahorny at 70
Panufnik died in London on October 27, 1991, he was one of the most accomplished Polish composers of the 2nd half of the 20th Century...
Pianist, saxophonist, composer, and arranger, born on 5 November 1941 in Radzyń Podlaski.
He studied clarinet at the State Higher School of Music in Sopot. When he was still a student, in 1959 he founded his own band, the Little Four quartet. He started performing with the North Coast Combo the same year, working with the band for 2 years, and was the clarinettist in a traditional jazz group called the Tralabomba Jazz Band. He played with the Baltic Philharmonic orchestra as well. In 1962 he debuted at theJazz Jamboree festival in Warsaw as a soloist - playing the saxophone in Jan Tomaszewski's big band. From then on, he appeared at the festival many times for almost 15 years, mainly with Andrzej Trzaskowski's sextet (1962-77).
As a pianist, he worked with the bands of Ryszard Kruza and Alojzy Musiał (1963-64). He founded his own trio in 1965, which gave its first performance at the Jazz on the Odra River festival in Wrocław and won first prize, while Nahorny himself won the individual first prize and a special mention for his composition "Zbyszek". He won second prize at the International Modern Jazz Competition in Vienna in 1966, and in 1967 at the 6th Amateur Jazz Festival in Vienna, Duke Ellington presented him with the individual first prize and the second prize for his trio.
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