JAZZ '57
2nd Sopot Jazz Festival
2 Ogolnopolski Festiwal Muzyki Jazzowej

Label: Polskie Nagrania - Muza , 2007
Catalogue No: PNCD 957A/C
Format: Deluxe Digi-Pack 3-CD boxset (24-bit re-mastered from original master tapes)
Condition: GENUINE, BRAND NEW, FACTORY SEALED

The first Sopot Jazz Festival, which took place in August 1956 is regarded as the key event in the history of Polish jazz. It represented the culmination of the first, chaotic period in the development of Polish jazz. It marked the full emergence of jazz from the underground and the music's first official recognition on a major scale. It ended the "catacomb era" and launched the "time of frenzy". Jazz came out of the catacombs and immediately became recognized as a symbol of freedom and liberation from boredom and obscurantism, as well as a chance for contact, solidarity and unity with the rest of the world. This was an authentic explosion of energy and joy, often frenetic, that we remember nostalgically even now, at a time when we miss even more the burst of the youthful energy of that generation... more  (Janusz Szprot)

Audio Clips:

   Bill Ramsey – Caldonia

   Joki Freund Quintet – Freund Point

Tracks:

CD 1
Komeda Sextet
1. Festival Theme
2. Opus in Mulligan Mood
3. Mystery of the Past
4. Lulaby
5. All the Things You Are
6. Gillespie Memory/Birks Works
7. Blues for Sopot
Hot Club Melomani (traditional lineup)
8. Introduction
9. Festival Theme
10. Sweet Georgia Brown
11. Kansas City Stomp
12. The Old Piano Roll Blues (+Jeanne Johnstone-Schiele)
13. After You've Gone
14. Atlanta Blues
15. Somebody Stole My Gal/Festival Theme

CD 2
FROM FRANKFURT WITH LOVE (Frankfurt All Stars)
Emil Mangelsdorff Swingtet:
1. I Got Rhythm
2. Blues
3. After You've Gone
Big Bill Ramsey:
4. Caldonia
5. The Outskirts of Town
6. Big Fat Mama
7. Goin' to Chicago Blues
8. Introduction
9. John Henry
10. Frankie and Johnny
11. St. James Infirmary
Joki Freund Quintet:
12. Freund Point
13. Swinging Pigeon
14. Rudi's Theme
15. Domizil
16. From Lighthouse to Frankfurt
17. Vie-La-Fra


CD 3
Albert Nicholas:
1. Introduction
2. Royal Garden Blues
3. Black and Blue
4. That's a Plenty
Riverside Syncopators Jazz Band:
5. Tiger Rag
Gustav Brom Dixieland 75:
6. My New Friend
7. Goodbye Lollipops, Hello Lipstick (+Jarmira Vesela)
Hot Club Melomani (modern linup):
8. Bernie's Tune
9. Over the Rainbow (+Wanda Warska)
10. Westwood Walk
Modern Jazz Sekstet:
11. Two Sleepy People
Modern Combo:
12. Our Melody
Zespó? ?l?skiego Jazz Clubu:
13. Lover Come Back to Me
Koliber:
14. St. Louis Blues
Spree City Stompers + Hot Club Melomani:
15. Chinatown, My Chinatown
16. Swanee River

Recorded:
from 7/15/1957 to 7/21/1957 at Sopot and Gdynia, Poland