Leszek Zadlo

Leszek Zadlo (Polish: Leszek Żądło; born April 4, 1945 in Kraków, Poland) is a Polish jazz musician (soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, flute), composer, and university teacher.

Zadlo studied music in Kraków, Vienna, and Graz. In the mid-1960s, after he had already worked as a jazz musician in Kraków, he moved to Vienna, where he founded the International Quartet. At the end of the 1960s he joined the Group, a group of improvisational performers at the Musikhochschule Graz, where he taught Swedish trombonist Eje Thelin.

From the early to mid-1970s Zadlo was a member of both the ORF big band and the Erich Kleinschuster sextet. He also appeared in productions alongside Dexter Gordon, Friedrich Gulda, Dusko Goykovich, and Michał Urbaniak. As part of the Leszek Zadlo Ensemble, he played with trumpeter Johannes Faber and pianist Bob Degen. (The ensemble currently includes Bill Elgart and Paulo Cardoso.) Zadlo also played in Ali Haurand's European Jazz Quintet, along with his fellow saxophonists Alan Skidmore and Gerd Dudek.

In 1983 Zadlo founded the Polski Jazz Ensemble with Vladislav Sendecki, Bronisław Suchanek, and Janusz Stefański. Jazz & Lyrik Productions The Waltz end of the world (1985) was also involved in the ensemble. Zadlo repeatedly played in churches on productions of Südwestfunk with organist Claus Bantzer. These productions were produced by Joachim-Ernst Berendt.

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