Background

The Tesar Jazz Band was founded in the mid-nineties in Mikkeli, South-Eastern Finland. Although the band's players work in various professions, they all have a solid musicial background. The band performs mainly in Mikkeli area, but has also played abroad:

• 1996  Assens, Denmark
• 1997  Florida, USA
• 1999  Rome, Vatican, Italy
• 2000  Warsaw, Poland
• 2001  Krakow, Poland
• 2002  Cairo, Egypt
• 2002  Czech, Prague
• 2003  Costa del Sol, Spain
• 2003  Kalisz and Warsaw, Poland
• 2005  Bratislava, Slovkaia
• 2006  Bangkok, Thailand
• 2007  Bangkok, Thailand
• 2008  Belgium, Brussels
• 2009  Hungary, Budapest
• 2010  China, Beijing
• 2011  Belgium, Brussels
• 2012 Poland, Krakow

The band plays mainstream and swing jazz and has many Duke Ellington's tunes in the repertoire. The band leader Krystian Tesarczyk was born in Poland. The last 33 years he has lived in Finland. During the time he has directed several different kinds of jazz ensembles: jazz singer groups, big bands, and jazz combos. Tesar Jazz Band is one of his favourites. Tesar Jazz Band has performed with many well known jazz musician e.g. Jukka Perko (saxophones), Severi Pyysalo (vibrafon), Ted Curson / USA (trumpet), Jyrki Kangas (contrabass), Markku Johansson (trumpet), Vitali Imereli / Georgia (violin), Jari Perkiömäki (saxophones), Iiro Rantala (piano), Antti Sarpila (clarinet, saxophones), Marian Petrescu / Romania (piano),  Raivo Tafenau / Estland (saxophones), Janusz Muniak / Poland (saxophones,  Tomasz     Grzegorski / Poland (saxophones), Marcin Slusarczyk / Poland (alt sax), Seppo Hovi (piano), Riitta Paakki (piano) ja Pentti Lasanen (saxophones).

Records:

• To Each His Own, leads Krystian Tesarczyk (1999)
• Caravan, leads Krystian Tesarczyk (2003)
• Dinner at eight, leads Krystian Tesarczyk (2008)