In the spring of 1958 founder of the Newport Jazz Festival George Wein and band teacher Marshall Brown came to Europe to pick young musicians to play in an international group in the United States. The band played on US television, at the Newport Jazz Festival and later in Netherlands and Belgium. In Warsaw, 22 year old saxophonist Jan "Ptaszyn" Wróblewski won the competition. Some of the best Polish musicians participated, including Krzysztof Komeda. In the clip Andrzej Trzaskowski, Jerzy Milian and Jan Zylber can also be seen.
Wróblewski recalled:
"In New York, we went to every possible club every day for a month and a half. We went to Harlem for a week, where we saw, among others, Miles's sextet with Adderley, Evans and Coltrane, the band known from the album "Kind Of Blue". (...) The only club I didn't make it to at that time was the Village Vanguard."
"(...) we had a short segment, and after us there was Armstrong, so one of our songs was prepared with Armstrong, as a link. This was probably the strongest highlight of this trip. (...) he was a wonderful, sociable guy, cheerful, friendly to everyone, but your pants were shaking when you talked to him and, by the way, it was probably the song we played the best because everyone was so tense.
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Film taken from the Polish Film Chronicle: 35mm.online/en/vod/chronicles/polish-film-chronicle-58-14b
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