Poland 2019 Polish Jazz Musicians
- Issue Date: 30 Aug 2019
- Designed by: Bożydar Grozdew
- Printed by: PWPW S.A.
- Print Process: Offset
- Paper: fluorescent
- Perforations: 11.5 x 11
- Face value: 3.30zl
- Run: 180,000
- Sheet: 3 x 3 stamps
- Scott Catalog Number:
- Michel Number: 5149
- Stanley Gibbons Number:
Jerzy Stanisław Milian (April 10, 1935 – March 7, 2018) was a jazz musician, painter, composer and vibraphonist.[1] At sixteen he graduated from the Secondary School of Music in Poznan. His teachers were Wolfram Heicking and Bogusław Schaeffer.
In the years 1953-1955 formed a quintet with Stanisław Chwiłkowski, Ryszard Czaplicki, Jerzy Piątek and Stanisław Lisek. In the years 1956-1958 he played vibraphone in the sextet Krzysztof Komeda, and at the turn of 1959 and 1960 in the Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski's Quintet. He was the director and artistic director of the Orchestra of Polish Radio and Television Services Entertainment in Katowice and lecturer at the Poznan Academy of Music. He participated in many jazz festivals (including Jazz Jamboree).
He was a jury member at the Soviet Song Festival in Zielona Gora, The XII Soviet Song Festival, in 1976.
The Stamp
The stamp shows a foto of Jerzy Milian (1935-2018) playing vibes during a concert at the 12th International Jazz Jamboree Festival 1969.
