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Polish Jazz is something else.
I love Jazz but TBH some of it can be a bit painful to listen to. Polish Jazz was heavily suppressed by the communists in the fifties and early sixries..because they saw it as a subversive American genre of music.But that forbidden fruit is always attractive.... In the late fifties and early sixties,Rock'n'Roll and Pop Music came along and the communists saw these genres as even more subversive than jazz.
They saw this new wave of youth culture growing and decided that Jazz was the lesser evil.So in 1965 they allowed Polish Jazz bands to release albums on state record labels.
Jan Wrobleski.....
youtu.be/ItSzKzLk3tg
Possibly the jazz band that is most highly regarded in Polish Jazz was the Komeda Quintet.
youtu.be/e8FYNCYeBXI
The thing that really got to those early Polish Jazz bands was that their style was really appreciated but that foreigners called it "Polish Jazz", they tried to defend themselves and said, "No,we are just playing American Jazz".
The reply was "No, There is a Polish feel to your Jazz".
I think the foreigners were righr.
Polish Jazz has a sound of it's own.
Komeda was a Jazz genius.
youtu.be/8jUwhSpPTJ4
@amiga500
Yeah,maybe a "Guilty pleasure* for me....
@pawian
No.That was purely rubbish....not even "Guilty Pleasure" level...just awful.
Just my opinion.