Summer Jazz Festival Kraków 2026

Name: Summer Jazz Festival Kraków 2026
Start: 2026-07-14T20:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-07-21T20:00:00+02:00
Location: Klub Pod Jaszczurami

Tue, 14 Jul 2026 — Tue, 21 Jul · 20:00

Klub Pod Jaszczurami, Krakow, Poland

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Summer Jazz Festival Kraków 2026 — Klub Pod Jaszczurami, Krakow

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Summer jazz festival in Kraków featuring live music in an intimate club setting.

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Pat Metheny

20:00

Jan Garbarek Group feat. Trilok Gurtu 20:00
Kenny Garrett Quintet
Nicholas Payton Trio

About: Pat Metheny

A guitarist who has won 20 Grammys across 10 categories and sold 20 million records, Metheny brings his Side-Eye III+ ensemble to Europe in 2026 - touring with new music from his first major studio album in six years, released on his own Uniquity Music label.

Grammy Awards won (across 10 different categories - no other artist has matched this)

20M+

Records sold worldwide

648K+

Facebook followers

Additional Grammy nominations (beyond 20 wins)

What's new

2026-02
Pat Metheny released Side-Eye III+, his first major studio album in six years, on his newly founded label Uniquity Music.
2026-02
Metheny launched Uniquity Music, a new label that will also house reissues of his entire catalogue since 1984, in partnership with Primary Wave.
2025-11
Metheny announced the 2026 Side-Eye III+ Tour, a 55-date run across the US and Canada starting March 2 in Jackson, Mississippi.

Tour

FlensburgLübeckHamburgWrocławWarsawGdańskBerlinMunichDortmundFreiburgNürnbergFrankfurtKrakówBudapestLondonBarcelona

Tracks

Bright Size Life1976 debut album, widely credited with reinventing the jazz guitar sound for a new generation

Letter from Home1989 gold album, one of three gold records in his catalogue alongside (Still Life) Talking and Secret Story

Offramp1981 landmark album introducing Latin influences to the Pat Metheny Group sound

Dream Box2023 solo baritone guitar album, Grammy-nominated for Best Jazz Instrumental Album

Side-Eye III+2026 studio album on Uniquity Music - first major studio release in six years, featuring 18 musicians

Recent shows

Jul 11, 2026 Ahoy, Rotterdam (NL)
Jul 9, 2026 Teatro degli Arcimboldi, Milan (IT)
Jul 8, 2026 Piazza Europa, La Spezia (IT)

About the venue: Klub Pod Jaszczurami

Klub Pod Jaszczurami is one of the oldest student clubs in Poland, open since 1960. It is housed in the medieval Kamienica pod Jaszczurką building at Rynek Główny 8 in Kraków. The club is known for promoting jazz and the local student arts scene, hosting concerts, theatre performances in the adjacent Teatr 38, film screenings, exhibitions, debates, and dance nights. Since 2001 it has been managed by the Kraków Instytut Sztuki.

Rynek Główny 8, 31-042 Kraków Get directions

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