What if Jimmy Smith was born in Poland? For answer listen to this "1960s' Blue Note album" made in Poland.
Krzysztof Sadowski
and His Hammond Organ
Polish Jazz vol.21
Label: Polskie Nagrania - Muza , 1970/2005
Catalogue No: PNCD 1021 (SXL 0606)
Format: CD (24-bit re-mastered from original master tapes)
Condition: GENUINE, BRAND NEW, MINT
Tracks:
1. Z Malej Chmury Duzy Deszcz (Heavy Rain From a Little Cloud) (K. Sadowski)
[02:59]
2. Impression Of The Beatles (J. Lennon, McCartney, arr. K. Sadowski) [08:30]
a) With a Little Help From My Friends
b) Yesterday
c) A Hard Day's Night
3. Kolyszac sie - Swinging (K. Sadowski) [03:39]
4. Skad my to znamy - Something Familliar (K. Sadowski) [02:23]
5. Blues z moralem - Don't Count on Neal (W. Karolak) [04:35]
6. Ballada z filmu 'Rosemary's Baby' Main Theme From 'Rosemary's Baby' (K.
Komeda, arr. A. Mundkowski) [04:29]
7. Punkt docelowy - Aim Point (J. Pt. Wróblewski) [04:33]
8. Za pare dzwiekow - For Thanks (M. Urbaniak) [04:40]
Performed by:
Krzysztof Sadowski - Hammond organ (mod. M-120)
Andrzej Dabrowski - drums
Jazz Studio Orchestra of the Polish Radio - Jan 'Ptaszyn' Wroblewski - leader
Recorded:
January 1970, Warsaw, Poland
About:
Krzysztof Sadowski was born in Warsaw, Poland December 15, 1936. He studied
piano for eleven years while at school and after graduating from the Warsaw
Institute of Technology took up a career in jazz (1957). In the early 1960s he
played and recorded with Zbigniew Namyslowski's Jazz Rockers and Jan
Wróblewski's Jazz Outsiders (both 1961-2), and worked with Andrzej Kurylewicz
and the Swingtet led by the alto saxophonist Jerzy Matuszkiewicz. He achieved
considerable success with his own group Bossa Nova Combo (from 1963), with which
he toured the Soviet Union (1965) and Scandinavia (1967). In 1967, influenced by
Jimmy Smith, he took up the Hammond organ and formed a hard-bop ensemble, the
Krzysztof Sadowski Organ Group. With the Organ Group he recorded two important
albums for Polish Jazz Series: "Krzysztof Sadowski and his Hammond Organ" and
"Three Thousands Points". He also toured and recorded with his wife, the pop
singer and flutist Liliana Urbanska. Sadowski has composed many popular hits in
Poland, as well as music for films, theater, radio, and television, and two
suites, "On the Cosmodrome" and "Our Common World". Krzysztof Sadowski is a long
time activist and executive of Polish Jazz Society.