![]() Before that I was in Chochoły (The Haystacks), playing a repertoire based on the first two or three Rolling Stones albums. In the late sixties I was the bassist in Akwarele (The Watercolours), the backing group of the most talented singer of that era, Czesław Niemen. There was a sense of pure joy in picking up a guitar and trying to sound like the Shadows or the Stones. The late sixties was the time when Polish rock was closest to the world. The early sixties saw the emergence of a new generation of bands inspired by the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. In 1968 he was partying in Hollywood with Pola´nski and writer Marek Hłasko when he was pushed over by Hłasko in a friendly brawl he died of the injuries he sustained in the fall. Komeda was also a rock-and-roll rebel figure in his own way. Composer and pianist Krzysztof Komeda was the best-known figure, renowned for his work with film director Roman Pola´nski. It was during the 1960s that Polish jazz became an international brand. Seeing The Animals on stage was no preparation for Jagger. A second festival was organized in 1957, after which the party authorities said: “No more.” The event became known as the Sopot Earthquake. Almost 30,000 people from all over Poland came to the first festival, taking over the town for a whole week. With the Sopot Jazz Festival of 1956, jazz suddenly emerged into the open, and became a symbol of freedom of expression. No jazz music was available at all on the radio or in the shops, and the scene was kept alive by young people playing in private homes. The ensuing era has been dubbed the heroic or ‘catacomb’ era of Polish jazz. After the Second World War it had become a forbidden art and was forced underground. ![]() Jazz was important to young Poles because it was a weapon in the struggle for personal freedom. The authorities didn’t like the phrase ‘rock’n’roll’, so instead the media took to calling it ‘big beat’. A rock’n’roll band called Rhythm and Blues was banned in 1959 because it drew ‘dangerously’ large crowds. The authorities weren’t sure how to react.
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