Asocjacja Hagaw - Please

ASOCJACJA HAGAW
Please

Label: Polskie Nagrania, 2002
Catalogue No: PNCD 593
Format: CD

Tracks:

1. My Pretty Girl
2. If I Had You
3. The Original Charleston
4. Buddy's Habits
5. Cherry
6. There's A Rainbow ('Round My Shoulder)
7. Sugar
8. Let It Snow
9. I'm Breezing
10. Seven Years With The Wrong Woman
11. Pod Samowarem
12. My Honey's Loving Arm
13. Ain't She Sweet
14. Please
15. Toot, Toot, Tootsie Goodbye
16. Ain't We Got Fun

Recorded:

1986, Warsaw, Poland

About:

The Group was originally established in May 1964 as the Stodola club quintet. They gave their first concert in autumn 1964. The name "Hagaw" came from the first letters of names of original band members: Henryk Kowalski, Andrzej Jastrzebski, Grzegorz Brudko, Stanislaw Piwowarski, Wieslaw Paplinski. During next few decades many other musicians came and went, including: Jerzy Kruszynski, Waldemar Wolski, Mariusz Wnuk, Jerzy Wysocki, Bogdan Izdebski, Mark Strobel, Tadeusz Federowski, Stanislaw Jonak, Zbigniew Konopczynski, Janusz Kozlowski, Paul Tartanus, Przemyslaw Gwozdziowski, Marek Kucharski, Stanislaw Gasienica-Brzega, Jerzy Dunin-Kozicki, Andrzej Zielinski, Krystian Brodacki, and singer Andrzej Rosiewicz.

Asocjacja Hagaw a is the most memorable example of trad revival in Polish jazz of 1960s. In order to describe Hagaw one word would be used: humor. The lucky one who will acquire this record will find in the Hagaw's performance the truest, liveliest, most colorful connections with the very sources of jazz. The Hagaw (the made as made up of the first letters of the founders' names) made its first appearance in May of 1964 in Warsaw's student club 'Stotola' (The Barn) at once arousing great interest among young public with their repertoires, original instruments and relaxed ways. Although Hagaw was often called "a mere band playing folk dances" their musical roots are really in the music of the swing era of 1930s. But does the style really matters? As band leader Grzegorz Brudko said: "Must we have to define our style? Will it make the listener happy when he learns that what we play is traditional jazz, swing or 'semi-dance music' - as our playing was once called by Willis Conover. Let's just continue our own style, which consist of...a lack of the style".