Joanna Duda Trio

In 2018, Poland was the partner country of jazzahead! in Bremen. Back then, six years ago, it was mainly the young scene that presented itself. One of the concerts was played by pianist Joanna Duda, born in 1983 in the Polish port city of Gdańsk – and with her trio, founded in 2017, she demonstrated characteristics that were already common for young Polish jazz at the time, but were not really recognised outside Poland. In any case, Duda’s idea of contemporary, modern jazz music is neither aesthetically nor stylistically limited; with the grand piano, synthesiser and looper, she cleverly alternates between analogue sounds and synthetic sounds. But also and especially in the anticipatory interplay with bass and drums, she is concerned with working out the various degrees of density of sound, melody and rhythm and making them the basis for a stylistic mix of jazz and techno, ambient and minimal music, improvised and new music.