Adam Makowicz was born into a family of ethnic Poles in Hnojník (eastern Moravia, now in the Czech Republic), in an area annexed by Nazi Germany at the beginning of World War II.

After years of hardship, Makowicz gained a regular gig at a small jazz club in a cellar of a house in Kraków.

[1] Makowicz was banned from Poland during the 1980s after the Polish regime imposed martial law to crush the Solidarity movement.

He has recorded over 30 albums of jazz, popular, and classical music, with his own arrangements of pieces by Chopin, Gershwin, Berlin, Kern, Porter, Rodgers, and other composers.

[4][5] Makowicz has been building bridges between cultures by his numerous concerts performance and recordings of cross-cultural and cross-style compositions.