Jerzy Milian
Jerzy Stanisław Milian (Poznan, Poland, April 10, 1935 – March 7, 2018) was a Polish jazz vibraphonist, pianist, composer and painter.
He graduated at sixteen from the Secondary Music School in Poznan. His teachers included Wolfram Heicking and Boguslaw Schaeffer.
Between 1953 and 1955 he led a quintet, including Stanisław Chwiłkowski, Ryszard Czaplicki, Jerzy Piątek, and Stanisław Lisek. From 1956 to 1958 he played the vibraphone in Krzysztof Komeda 's sextet, and in late 1959 and 1960, with the Jan Wróblewski quintet.
He has been director and artistic director of the Polish Radio and Television Orchestra in Katowice, and professor at the Poznan Academy of Music. He has participated in many jazz festivals.
In 2004 he received one of the highest Polish civil honours: the Order Odrodzenia Polski ("Order of Polonia Restituta"). Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
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