In US

ECM and the Polish Cultural Institute
present

MARCIN WASILEWSKI TRIO
(formerly Simple Acoustic Trio)

U.S. TOUR
celebrating the release of their ECM album January

Part of the group’s secret is the patient ease with which they intertwine impressionistic music and
powerful pulses. – The Guardian (UK)

MAY 20–25, 2008
U.S. Tour: New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Ann Arbor, Los Angeles

NEW YORK CITY, Birdland
Tuesday, May 20, 6:00 PM

PHILADELPHIA, Chris’ Jazz Café
Thursday, May 22, 9:00 PM

BALTIMORE, An Die Musik Live!
Friday, May 23, 8:00 & 9:30 PM

ANN ARBOR, The Firefly
Saturday, May 24, 8:00 PM

LOS ANGELES, Jazz Bakery
Sunday, May 25, 8:00 & 9:30 PM

The Marcin Wasilewski Trio will celebrate the release of their latest ECM album January. The album, which received enthusiastic reviews, including The New York Times Critic’s Choice: New CD’s, is a strong musical statement from a still-young band with a long history already behind it, and an album with an exceptionally wide-ranging program – all of it played with assurance, purpose and focus. The album and the Trio’s concerts reconfirm that the trio of Marcin Wasilewski, Slawomir Kurkiewicz and Michal Miskiewicz is one of the most outstanding contemporary jazz groups. Their friend and mentor, trumpeter Tomasz Stanko, has said, “In the entire history of Polish jazz we’ve never had a band like this one. They just keep getting better and better.”

[The Trio] have developed a sound full of subtlety, finesse and understated beauty – All About Jazz

Wasilewski is an excellent pianist influenced by Keith Jarrett – The New York Times

The tour is presented with generous support from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of Poland.

>>> TOUR DETAILS
>>> MORE ABOUT MARCIN WASILEWSKI TRIO
>>> JANUARY & REVIEWS

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The Polish Book Institute in Krakow,
Polish Cultural Institute in London,
Polish Cultural Institute in New York,
and W.A.B. Publishers in Warsaw
proudly announce

BILL JOHNSTON
as the recipient of their first
FOUND IN TRANSLATION AWARD

APRIL 18, 2008

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The award ceremony
will take place on April 18, 2008 at 4:30 PM,
during
“New Directions, New Connections: Polish Studies in Cross-Disciplinary Context”
2nd International Conference on Polish Studies
at Indiana University, Bloomington

The award will be delivered to Mr. Bill Johnston
by Mr. Grzegorz Gauden, director of the Polish Book Institute in Krakow, and
Monika Fabijanska, director of the Polish Cultural Institute in New York

The FOUND IN TRANSLATION AWARD, established in 2007 by the Polish Book Institute in Krakow, the Polish Cultural Institute in London, the Polish Cultural Institute in New York, and the W.A.B. Publishers in Warsaw, is given annually for the best translation of a work of Polish literature into English that was published as a book in the preceding year.

The first FOUND IN TRANSLATION AWARD has been given to BILL JOHNSTON for his translation of New Poems by Tadeusz Rozewicz (Archipelago Books, March 2007). New Poems is a collection of Rozewicz's three latest volumes in their entirety: Recycling (1998), The Professor's Penknife (2001), and The Gray Zone (2002).

>>>MORE ON BILL JOHNSTON	>>>MORE ON THE AWARD
>>>MORE ON THE CONFERENCE	>>>MORE ON “NEW POEMS” BY ROZEWICZ

The FOUND IN TRANSLATION AWARD, established on October 15, 2007, is to be given annually to the translator or translators of the best translation of a work of Polish literature into English that was published as a book in the preceding calendar year.

Candidates for the Award can be nominated by private persons as well institutions in Poland and abroad. The deadline for sending nominations is January 31 of each year, by midnight.