| Jerzy Milian | |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Birth Name: | Jerzy Stanisław Milian |
| Birth Date: | 10 April 1935 |
| Birth Place: | Poznań, Poland |
| Death Place: | Katowice, Poland |
| Occupation: | Painter, composer, musician |
| Instrument: | Vibraphone |
Jerzy Stanisław Milian (April 10, 1935 – March 7, 2018) was a Polish jazz musician, painter, composer and vibraphonist.[1] At sixteen he graduated from the Secondary School of Music in Poznań. His teachers were Wolfram Heicking and Bogusław Schaeffer.
In the years 1953–1955, Milian formed a quintet with Stanisław Chwiłkowski, Ryszard Czaplicki, Jerzy Piątek and Stanisław Lisek. In the years 1956–1958, he played vibraphone in a sextet with Krzysztof Komeda, and at the turn of 1959 and 1960 in the quintet of Jan "Ptaszyn" Wróblewski. He was the director and artistic director of the Orchestra of Polish Radio and Television Services Entertainment in Katowice and lecturer at the Poznań Academy of Music. He participated in many jazz festivals, including the annual Jazz Jamboree in Warsaw.
He was a jury member at the XII Song Festival of Soviet in Zielona Góra in 1976.
In the years 1950–1957, he was a member of the ZMP. From 1961, he belonged to the Polish United Workers' Party. Awarded with the Knight's Cross of the Order of the Rebirth of Polish, Gold Cross of Merit and badge for distinguished cultural activists. He died on March 7, 2018, at the age of 82.[2]
In 2004, he was awarded the Commander's Cross.