Jazz in Polish cinema : out of the underground 1958-1967 : remastered original soundtracks by Krzysztof Komeda and Andrzej Trzaskowski

"Produced by the Jazzwise writer Selwyn Harris, this superbly documented and comprehensive set includes the first soundtrack release for the 1959 Jerzy Kawalerowicz movie Night Train (with music mixing the Modern Jazz Quartet's vibes sound, mid-50s Miles Davis horns, and Norma Winstone-like wordless vocals), and Komeda's music for Wajda's 1960 film Innocent Sorcerers (1960) with the composer on piano and a 17-year-old Stanko - new to the trumpet, but already pretty secure in Miles-mode - in the lineup. It's also intriguing to hear that fine alto saxist Zbigniew Namyslowkski's coolly passionate small-hours sound drifting amid the uptempo bebop on Edward Etler's 1964 short, Accident. The 80-page book detailing the movies, the music and the period's complex politics, is also a gripping read on its own".

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"The 'Jazz In Polish Cinema' set - beautifully annotated, illustrated and packaged, with dilligent remastering - rescues more rarely heard Komedia scores for Polanski and other Polish filmmakers. Among them are scores for Opening Tomorrow (lambent, vibes-laced) The Accident (shades of noir) and The penguin (jazz-meets Bach) as well as the avant-tinged, Paris-recorded Le Départ (featuring Don Cherry and Gato Barbieri). The occasional Polish vocal or pop pastiche doesn't get in teh way too much. The box also includes several soundtracks by keyboardist-composer Andrzej Trzaskowski, leader of multiple pioneering Polish jazz bands. A key soloist in Trzaskowski's venturesome, hard-grooving score to the 1965 film Walkover was young trumpeter Tomasz Stanko, who also played on some of Komeda's soundtracks".