Kwintet Bogusława Rudzińskiego

The history of music largely consists of the word "if." For if Boguslaw "Dizzy" Rudzinski had not emigrated to Sweden in the mid-1960s, the history of Polish jazz might have looked very different. And the songs that appear on the album "Cold Bath" more than half a century after recording - could successfully fill one of the volumes of the "Polish Jazz" series.

Boguslaw Rudzinski, despite his great activity on the music scene of the late 1950s and early 1960s, quickly fell into oblivion after emigrating to Sweden. Unjustly so, as his singing tone on saxophone and clarinet accompanied many musicians who co-created Polish jazz with him. This has already been proven by the album "Unitron," released in 2021, documenting one of the recording sessions commissioned by the Polish Film Chronicle in 1964. It is also proven by "Cold Bath," recorded two years earlier in a classic jazz quintet, with Wieslaw Ejssymont on trumpet leading the way alongside the leader. This is colorful modern jazz, based on the energetic and swinging pulse of Wladyslaw Jagiello, with memorable themes and brilliant solo parts.

"Cold Bath" is being released for the first time on CD, remastered from original tapes from the archives of the Documentary and Feature Film Studio in Warsaw.