Komeda

A Private Life in Jazz
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-78179-945-1
Verlag: Equinox Publishing Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 472 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 846 g

Reihe: Popular Music History

Komeda: A Private Life in Jazz is the biography of Krzysztof (Trzcinski) Komeda (1931-1969), composer of no fewer than 40 soundtracks, including film scores to all of Roman Polanski's early films such as Knife in the Water and Rosemary's Baby; and revered figure in the world of jazz, which regards his album, Astigmatic (released in 1966), as a key album in the history of European jazz. This biography of Komeda, originally published in Polish by Znak in 2018, the first to be published in the English language, not only traces Komeda's life, but also the development of Polish jazz during this period, showing how this arose in large part out of a need for self-expression and personal freedom during a repressive period of Soviet communist dominance. The book is full of interviews between the biographer and people who worked with and knew Krzysztof Komeda personally, and, while thoroughly-grounded in primary sources, it is written in a playful, questioning, engaging style.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grzebalkowska, Magdalena

Weitere Mitwirkende

Boniszewska, Halina Maria

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Einzelne Komponisten und Musiker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The first festival of the sweater bands Thirty-eight years to go. There was a big problem Twenty-three years to go. Lack of discipline Twenty-one years to go. Nineteen years to go. Catacombs - Reprimand - Ustronie Morskie 1952 Seventeen years to go. Milian - Wroblewski - The finest jam in Poland - 1955 - Jazz Hour - Komeda's Sextet - Before the festival - Rehearsals, rehearsals, rehearsals - Maria-Zofia - On tour - Dosh - Regular gigs make us fly low - Festival second time around - Moscow - Two men and a wardrobe - Not Mr 'Lyrmann's' fault - Blues for Gomulka Twelve years to go. Krakow - Piwnica - Affinity to Monk, but unmusical - Mr Cool - Swiatoslaw Richter goes by delivery van - Jazz '58 Eleven years to go. Jazz Camping '59 - Innocent sorcerers - Komeda chisels the sounds - A few howlers, a few mistakes Ten years to go. Of course - the capital! - We, young ones, we're right - Grenoble - The fat and the lean - Guyetsky from Kiev - Tingel-Tangel - Fancying each other - Dorota Cedro singing in Hybrydy - Sham dance - Gigs and films - Knife in the water - Watch out: he might bite - Greetings from Sunny Beach Seven years to go. Everyone looks glum - Marshal Rola-Zymierski, cheers! - A river of diamonds - Hvad med os? - Notebook - Where is Stanko? - Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear! - People! Komeda's in town! - Law and the fist - Social life and love life - Jazz in Polen - Split, then Hvar - Repulsion - Total Komeda - Svantetic - Kattorna - Yugoslavia, Norway, Yugoslavia Four years to go. Should Katelbach arrive - Astigmatic - Sult - Rest - BMW - Terrible country - Barrier - Fearless vampire killers - Le depart - Meine susse Europaische Heimat - Requiem Two years to go. Lullaby - City - Can you feel anything? - Elana - Wife - My music's had an excellent reception Eight months to go. In Zoliborz - Whole group of losers - Fall - Oriole Lane Six months to go. Flight - Hello! What's on the other side? Seventeen days to go. Return Select Discography by Alyn Shipton, Royal Academy of Music Acknowledgements * Notes * Select bibliography Index of names * Source of illustrations

Über Autor(innen)

Grzebalkowska, Magdalena
A history graduate of the University of Gdansk, Magdalena Grzebalkowska is a multi-award-winning journalist and author of four books of non-fiction. In addition to her biography of Krzysztof Komeda, she has also written best-selling biographies of the Polish poet-priest, Jan Twardowski; and the Beksinskis, (artist father, Zdzislaw, and music journalist-son, Tomasz).