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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 succses, 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, CA (USA) the JBBO Fan Club was established, and their support continues to this day. It was the JBBO Fan Club that
with ti's over 250 members coined the band's nickname of JBBO. In 1987 ~ 70 of them traveled to Poland to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of JBBO as a band and the band played concerts for them as they toured all around beautiful Poland.

In recent years JBBO has played at an ever growing 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.
JBBO has played in the, now defunct, Soviet Union almost 60 concerts back in 1983.
Among them in places such as Baku, Groznyj, Leningrad, Moscow, & Minsk.
Additional Festivals:
In Norway the Silda Jazz Festival ~1995
JBBO played in the USA again in Seattle (2002) and Chicago twice (2001 & 2002)
In Israel the Cesarea Jazz Party ~2005
In Lithuania the Klaipeda Jazz Festival ~2008
In Germany the Gronau Jazz Festival ~2009

JBBO has also been Voted "The BEST Traditional Jazz Band", for at least the last 14 years, in yearly polls conducted by the Jazz Forum.

And, of course, in 2003 the "worldwide expertise" of JBBO helped co-found the "United Europe Jazz Festival" that brings together bands & fans over the four hosting countries during a 2 week period of the festival annually in Slovakia, Czech Republik, Hungary and Poland, which continues to grow. This festival is also now drawing bands from ALL over the world as Headliner Guests.

In 2004 Harriet Lewis joined the band as a part-time Vocalist, as have other Guests as vocalists and other well known musicians since then.

Their repertoire is very widely faced : music of Louis Armstrong is the foundation of JBBO's musical machinery. Satchmo's tradition,
Luceford-Goodman-Ellington's type of swing, the pitch of boogie, elements of be-bop, echos of the rythm'n'blues, latin fury all that well mixed up with addition 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.

Sto Lat "JBBO" aka "long live" JBBO

We also Twitter: @JBBOjazz
and have a Blog:
http://jbbo.blogspot.com

* Jan Kudyk - tp., vocal
* Marek Michalak - tb.
* Jacek Mazur - ts., cl.
* Wojtek Groborz - p.
* Teofil Lisiecki - b.
* Wieslaw Jamiol - dr.

Record Label: jbbo records
Label Type: Independent
Country: Poland

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Full Time ~ Jazz Band Ball Orchestra

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BLOG http://jbbo.blogsome.com/

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