Jerzy Piotrowski | |
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 Piotrowski in 2019 | |
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| Born | 9 February 1950 Poland |
| Genres | Jazz-rock, progressive rock, jazz, blues rock |
| Instruments | drums |
| Member of | SBB |
Jerzy Piotrowski, also known as Keta [1] (born 9 February 1950 [2] ) is a Polish jazz-rock drummer.
He has played on LPs for many artists, including Czesław Niemen, SBB, Kombi, Young Power, Pick Up, Krzysztof Ścierański, Ireneusz Dudek, Dżem, Martyna Jakubowicz, and Stanisław Sojka. [3]
He is the author of the textbook Szkoła na perkusję. Between 1990 and 1994, he conducted percussion workshops in Puławach. In 1994, he immigrated to the United States. [3]
SBB is a Polish progressive rock band formed in 1971 in Siemianowice, Upper Silesia. It consisted of multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Józef Skrzek, guitarist Apostolis Anthimos, the drummer Jerzy Piotrowski and sound engineer Grzegorz Maniecki. It was one of the most popular super-groups in Poland and Europe in the 1970s.
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On the Silver Globe is a 1988 Polish epic science fiction film directed and written by Andrzej Żuławski, adapted from The Lunar Trilogy by Jerzy Żuławski. Starring Andrzej Seweryn, Jerzy Trela, Iwona Bielska, Jan Frycz, Henryk Bista, Grażyna Deląg and Krystyna Janda, the plot follows a team of astronauts who land on an uninhabited planet and form a society. Many years later, a single astronaut is sent to the planet and becomes a messiah.
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Around 6 million Polish citizens perished during World War II: about one fifth of the pre-war population. Most were civilian victims of the war crimes and crimes against humanity during the occupation by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. Statistics for Polish World War II casualties are divergent and contradictory. This article provides a summarization of these estimates of Poland's human losses in the war and their causes.
The Polish Institute of International Affairs in Warsaw is a Polish think tank which carries out research and training in international relations. In this field, it ranks as one of the most influential think tanks not just in Central and Eastern Europe but in the European Union as a whole.
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