The first Warsaw festival, simply called "Jazz 58", took place at the "Stodola" Club in 1958. It was then that Leopold Tyrmand came up with its name: JAZZ JAMBOREE still used today. Jazz Jamboree quickly became one of the biggest and most important jazz festivals in Europe.

Thanks to radio and TV broadcasts it found its way to the hearts of jazz fans throughout Poland. Previous Festival stagings, going back almost half a century, made it possible to present the world greatest jazz stars on the Polish stage.

Jazz Jamboree is an annual festive show inspired by jazz that stemmed in Poland from the longing for freedom and civilized equality thus contributing to the development of an awareness alternative in its character to the political raison d'etre. To devoted audiences participation in Jazz Jamboree was a vote for a pro-active, cosmopolitan and somewhat decadent cultural option.

The Festival scene hosted almost all great personages in the history of jazz: Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, Ornette Coleman, Ray Charles, Bobby McFerrin, Benny Carter, Keith Jarret, Wynton Marsalis, Sonny Rollins, Joshua Redman, Joe Henderson, Kenny Garrett, Scott Hamilton, Joe Williams, Eddie Palmieri, Michael Petrucciani, US3, Diana Krall.

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