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Czesław Kazimierz Bartkowski was born April 19, 1943 in Łódź, Poland and has been dealing with music since the age of 6. A percussion class graduate of the Secondary Music School in Wrocław, he made his official debut in 1960 as a drummer for Jerzy Pakulski ‘s Far Quartet.

In 1963, he met Zbigniew Namysłowski and became a musician in his band Zbigniew Namysłowski Quartet. He also played with other well-known jazz groups, e.g. with Czesław Niemen’s Niemen Enigmatic or Michał Urbaniak’s Group, and in trios with various musicians. He has also collaborated with the Polish Radio Jazz Studio and Sławomir Kulpowicz’s Mainstream and InFormation bands .

In addition, he participated in the recording of such singers as Ewa Bem, Urszula Dudziak and Stanisław Sojka, and such foreign musicians as: Freddie Hubbard, Clark Terry, Joe Newman, Art Farmer, Ben Webster, and the Polish band Novi Singers.

Not only has he performed in Poland, but abroad in India, USA, New Zealand, Australia and numerous European countries. In the winter of 1976, he took part in the jazz workshop Radost ’76 in Mąchocice, Poland near Kielce, which was immortalized in the documentary titled We’re Playing Standard!.

In 1993 he became a lecturer at the Secondary School of Music. Fryderyk Chopin in Warsaw, Poland and the Warsaw Jazz Studio. Drummer and pedagogue Czesław Bartkowski continues his endeavors in music.

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