Andrzej Schmidt - history of jazz in Silesia - interview

Interview recorded in 2014 as a part of documentation for the 60th anniversary of the Silesian Jazz Club Music Association, the oldest jazz association in Poland, which was founded on 19 October 1956 in Zabrze.
There's an interview clip on the SJC’s channel on RUclips. The whole interview was to serve as documentation and material for TVP’s production of a documentary movie about the history of SJC (all interviews conducted). For reasons that are not worth mentioning, that film has not been made. And that’s why I’ve decided to publish the full versions of the interviews on my own RUclips channel for their purely historical values. Some of those people have already left us, so there won't be another opportunity to tell that story.
It is the account of a witness to history, participant and creator of those events. Certainly subjective, but very personal.
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Prof. Andrzej Schmidt
Polish jazz historian (the most outstanding Polish expert on jazz and its history), professor at the Academy of Music in Katowice, born in Wielkie Oczy (born in 1922). The grandson of the heir to Charles the Black.
He graduated from high school in Lviv. After World War II he settled with his parents in Gliwice. He studied music at PWSM in Łódź. Since 1969 was a lecturer in the history of jazz at the Academy of Music in Katowice (he was Dean of the Faculty of Jazz and Entertainment). Activist of the Polish Jazz Association, journalist and reviewer for Jazz Forum magazine. Author of the monumental 3-volume History of Jazz, which volumes were published between 1988 and 1997.
Honorary member of the Silesian Jazz Club Music Association.
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Script and production: Daniel Ryciak

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