GASZYŃSKI Marek - Fruwa twój marynara

It's a story about how jazz, but not only jazz, was reborn in the post-war years, as there was also song, pop, dance, restaurant and pub music. It's a story about the lives of the musicians who created all this back then. We know many of them - Dudus Matuszkiewicz, Kurylewicz, Komeda, Ptaszyn Wróblewski. Many are forgotten, so I devoted a lot of space to Cajmer, Wichary, Walasek. There are also figures about whom the encyclopedias are silent - Carmen Moreno, Henryk Count Rostworowski, Jerzy Tatarak, Włodzimierz Patuszyński. It's also a story about certain events (the Warsaw Youth Festival in 1955, the Sopot Jazz Festivals in 1956 and 1957) and forgotten places (the Red Oberza, the Polonia Hotel, the Kameralna Restaurant).

"The world of pubs, dances, and venues where jazz and so-called semi-jazz was played at that time is slowly being removed into the shadows. American standards, alcohol, brawls, shady deals, swing, literary bohemia, pre-war officers, light-hearted women, cigarette smoke - such was the night life of our cities in the forties and fifties: on the one hand, nouveau riche, communist youth, activists, and on the other, valedictorians, old-school military men, poets, writers, artists, actors, and even a fading aristocracy.

I write about bikinis, hooligans, ZMP activists, the world of Leopold Tyrmand's colorful socks, how people were removed from school, university and dorms for playing jazz, and how many a musician was beaten up.
When jazz crossed the thresholds of the philharmonic hall, rock and roll appeared. Such young singers as Burano, Wyrobek, Tarnowski became stars. Electric guitars, leather jackets, "Lucille," "Mambo rock" - it thrilled us! But Comrade Gierek in 1959 banned the playing of rock and roll, activists said no. The book ends in 1960, just before the birth of Polish big beat and colorful bands."-MarekGaszynski

Published by Prószyński i S-ka, 2006.
Format: 305 x 210 mm, 242 pages.
Hardcover.

Piece in very good condition.