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BAZAAR -
Rare Gems From Polish Vaults vol. 1

Various Artists

(CS-19)

CD release from Cosmic Sounds London of rare jazz tracks compiled by Zeljko Kerleta.

'Following up collections from Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, and Russia, the latest stop on Cosmic Sounds' jazz tour of Eastern Europe is 1960's Poland.'

Rare jazz from the Polish scene of the 60s, one of the unsung hotbeds of modern jazz in the postwar years! Poland was way ahead most of its Eastern European contemporaries when it came to jazz.

GBP 9.97

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BAZAAR -
Rare Gems From Polish Vaults vol. 1

Various Artists

(CS-19)

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MARK TURNER (DJ Rocky Rococo @ Jazzadelica) 
Following up collections from Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, and Russia, the latest stop on Cosmic Sounds' jazz tour of Eastern Europe is 1960's Poland. And it's a rousing success. Among my favorites are the four tracks featuring vibes player Jerzy Milian: three under his own name and a fourth as featured soloist with Jan Wroblewski and the Polish Radio Jazz Orchestra. Then there's a really swingin' track by the Novi Singers, one of the all-time greatest jazz vocal groups...from any country! Pianist and film composer Krzystof Komeda, perhaps the most familiar name here, is oddly represented by two versions of the same composition ("The Kitten"), both programmed on the same side of the record. Aside from that minor quibble, BAZAAR really is a valuable and entertaining document of a mostly ignored part of jazz history. 

STRAIGHT NO CHASER 
More Astonishing spiritual sounds from this wonderful underground label run by the knowledgeable Zeljko Kerleta. This Polish edition is fifth in line of 'Discoveries From The East' having so far covered Russia, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia - jazz has no boundaries these days. The richness hits you immediately with the spell binding sticks of vibraphonist Jerzy Milian opening track 'Ashkabad', only to further devastated by his neoteric, jazz breakebat groove 'Rewelacyjny Luciano' (translations welcome). 'Katorna' by Jan Wroblewski is likely to prove a new favourite for dancers at the Jazz Cafe - intense, fast, ferocious steam train of a track that suggests straight ahead jazz could work the rock world of pyrotechnics. There's a funky vocal inclusion of the blissfully harmonious Novi Singers and a heart Lifting bossa by Zbigniew Namyslowski for too rare to mention, so I have. This collection as those before it is remarkably hot and brilliant introduction to the renound Polish scene. If you call yourself a music lover don't miss this (DJs this is available on vinyl). My album of this issue easy. (CT) 

SEVEN by ANDY THOMAS , Issue 149 
Profiling the sounds of East European jazz new and old with his Cosmic Sounds label, Zeljko Kerleta is a man committed to bringing this music to a wider audience. This is the fifth in a series looking at the areas vibrant jazz scene from the sixties and seventies (following on from albums of Czech, Russian and Yugoslavian gems). Along the same lines as the recent JCR compilation, this superb album focuses on the incredible jazz music of sixties' Poland. While Kerleta states that this is 'straight ahead jazz' there is nothing remotely safe about the fierce jazz of artists like Krystof Komeda and Jan Wroblewski. Elsewhere, the easy vocal jazz of the Novi Singers is offset by the Pharoah Sanders style jazz dance of Zbigniew Namyslowski, on an album that will surprise and inspire in equal measure. 

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