Perhaps we should first ask: what is jazz? An improvisational art? A dialog between musician and instrument, music and listener? Or just music? It is difficult to point out what would distinguish Polish jazz from any other 'national school' of jazz art. Slavic melodiousness and sensibility, late-romantic models of expression, dramatic lyricism? The blues? Or perhaps the creative incorporation of the Polish folk idiom with its scales, melodies and rhythms? However