XVII Złota Tarka – Old Jazz Meeting

The poster for “XVII Złota Tarka – Old Jazz Meeting” (1983, unsigned) explodes with a clash of deep black and saturated red, against which a mirrored pair of cartoonish jazzmen in oversized bowlers springs to life. Their mustachioed faces hide psychedelic rainbow sunglasses, as though the music itself were spinning across the lenses like a whirling vinyl record. Beneath gleaming bow ties the men wield golden, swooping trumpets and microphones that flash with white highlights, lending the scene all the glitz of a late-night club. Tiny pocket emblems—one reading “PSJ” with a trumpet, the other “Stodoła”—nod to the organisers of Warsaw’s traditional-jazz celebration. A slender red band running between the figures suggests an onstage runway, emphasising the theatrical meeting of “old jazz” with the carnival exuberance of the 1980s.