2016 edition

For the second time - Jazz in the Ruins begins with an outdoor concert performed by the youngest artists of the festival.

New poster exhibition - "Jazz Movie" - From 5 to 20 August 2016  - Ruins Victoria Theatre in Gliwice (Poland)

One of the most interesting bassists of the young generation
Michal Wilczynski (journalist Jazz Forum)

This brilliant singer has caused a lot of commotion with her debut album "Między nami" ("Between Us") - filled with subversive yet moving lyrics, acoustic sounds and Latin American rhythms.

"Piotr Budniak and his Essential Group are fulfilled, full-fledged jazzmen. You can say that they know everything about what they play. The awareness of purpose and means of expression - that`s the lore they have mastered."
Piotr Iwiński

Vehemence Quartet – a laureate of the 7th International Azoty Jazz Competition in Tarnów and the 51st edition of prestigious Jazz nad Odrą festival – has proudly entered the forceful young jazz stage of Poland.

Workshops during the 12th International Festival Jazz in the Ruins will be organised as a individual and band classes.

TENPASTEN`s modus operandi is to present forward thinking music that does not adhere to the template presented by academia for approaching the concepts of jazz and jazz improvisation.

Their album “Harmony of the Spheres”, released in February 2015, is an effect of artistic friendship and shared music imagination. It tells stories about simple things – birthplace, TV series, music inspirations, love.

Workshops are addressed to young jazz musicians, pupils of music schools, adults interested in jazz improvisation and cooperation in a jazz band.

Concert organised in cooperation with the Austrian Cultural Forum in Warsaw.

"(...) Worth lending an ear, because you can hear they are playing from their hearts."
Aga Zaryan