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Book: Komeda

Chapter: Seventeen Years to Go ...

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.39270

Blurb:

Following Stalin’s death in 1953, the communist authorities relax their emphasis on socialist realism. Komeda takes part in the first Kraków Zaduszki Jazz Festival of 1954 and the culturally ground-breaking First National Jazz Festival of 1956 in Sopot. He plays with Melomani (the first post-war Polish jazz band) and forms the Komeda Sextet (the first modern jazz band in Poland).

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