Jazz Jamboree is one of the oldest jazz festivals in Europe. The first edition took place in the Warsaw Stodola in 1958 under the name Jazz 1958, and from the following year it was officially known as Jazz Jamboree. Over these almost sixty years the festival has hosted almost all of the most outstanding jazz musicians from around the world. Among the most famous are Miles Davis, Ray Charles, Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Dave Brubeck, Wynton Marsalis, The Manhattan Transfer, Bobby McFerrin, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Keith Jarrett and Michael Petrucciani.

Thousands of musicians, nearly half a million spectators, this is undoubtedly a huge achievement of this Polish jazz festival. In 2017, the Jazzarium Foundation, the organiser of the Warsaw Summer Jazz Days, undertook to resuscitate the Jazz Jamboree.

Most festivals are organised "under" already established names. The basic premise of the "new" Jazz Jamboree is to rejuvenate the festival and entrust it to young people. Under the slogan "The Second Wave of Polish Jazz", the protagonists will be new rising stars, not in confrontation with foreign giants, but working with them in specially initiated projects. The festival invites the leaders of contemporary jazz, great individuals who will work with young Polish musicians in various line-ups and projects. The leaders will be given the opportunity to compose special pieces, which will be performed and recorded at the festival. This will give the opportunity to release albums, which can be a good recommendation in the world for these young performers. Efforts will also be made for such projects (star-leaders with Poles) to be presented at foreign festivals. In the past, the Jazz Jamboree had a community-forming role, but recently it has lost this function and it is time to restore it for the young.