Henryk Gold Orch. and Adam Aston - Jutro będzie lepiej, 1932

Recording: Jutro będzie lepiej (Tomorrow It'll Be Better) (Es wird schon wieder besser) (Muz. Jurmann/ Kaper, tekst: Dorjan) Foxtrot z teatru „Qui Pro Quo" - Orkiestra Taneczna „Henry" (Henryk Gold Dance Orch.) z refrenem A. Wińskiego (Adam Aston), Columbia 1932 -------------------------------------------------------------- Here's the NOTE I co-wrote and edited for the page: European Big Bands Database: Henryk GOLD (b. 1899, Warsaw, d. 1977, New York, NY, USA) - violin player, bandleader and a pioneer in the history of Polish Jazz and Dance Music. He was also one of the most prolific song writers in Poland during the inter-war years. Gold was born into a very musical family in which all of the children were encouraged to play various instruments. His mother came from the famous Warsaw klezmer family Melodysta, and his father was one of the first flutist in the Warsaw Opera Orchestra. His brother, Artur Gold (1903-1943), was also an orchestra leader and composer of many of the tangos that were popular during the 1920s and 30s. Henryk Gold, after the sudden death of his father (who died on the stage, while playing the flute) had to go to Tambow in Russia, where he was brought up by his relatives, who also taught him play the violin. Soon, he was admitted to the Glazunov Censervatory and when the World War I ended, he returned to Warsaw, to continue his music studies at the Warsaw Conservatory under the leadership of famous professors Stanisław Barcewicz and Aleksander Michalowski. During the period immediately after WW1 when Poland again became independent, Jazz, as popularized by the 'Original Dixieland Jazz Band', began to sweep Europe from west to east. Henryk Gold was caught up in the extreme popularity of this music and followed the lead of Zygmunt Karasiński, a saxophonist, who founded the very first Polish jazz band in 1923. In 1925, Henryk and his brother Artur formed an 8-piece Jazz Band to play at the „Cafe Bodega" in Warsaw. They were an immediate success, and this lead to a recording contract with the SYRENA company. The first records by the Gold Orchestra were issued in 1926 and included such titles as "Heebie Jeebies", "Oh, Miss Hannah" and others, as well as the tangos and waltzes which were required of any orchestra during the period. At first, the Gold Orchestra had a very 'salon orchestra' feel, with the musicians playing in more of a ragtime style than anything else. But by 1929, with the addition of Mulatto Jerzy (George) Scott on the drums, the orchestra was on it's way to becoming a versatile all-around dance band. During the 1930's Henryk Gold became the most popular musician in Poland. He was writing songs for films, recording with his orchestra for both SYRENA-ELECTRO and COLUMBIA (for Columbia in the years 1932-36, after 1936 for SYRENA again). Joining his brother Artur, and fellow songwriter Jerzy Petersburski (composer of "Oh Donna Clara") he run "Adria" - a very popular night club in Warsaw (a unique prewar documentary movie from „Adria" can be seen at the site of Pathe79: http://pl.youtube.com/watch?v=OM6390vkbSY ) . The Gold Orchestra can also be heard accompanying many singers of the period such as Hanka Ordonowna, Adam Aston, Janusz Poplawski and Witold Conti. In early 1939, Gold and his Orchestra were invited to be part of the delegation from Poland to the World's Fair in New York. During their time at the Fair they played for dancers at the Polish Pavilion. On the day of outbreak of Worl War II on September 1, 1939 Henryk Gold and the Band were in Lwow, which on the 17 September -- due to Ribbentrop-Molotow Pact of attacking Poland from east and west in September 1939 -- was occupied by Red Army. Gold's brother Artur, who was in that time Warsaw, was not so lucky, he perished in Treblinka in 1943. In 1942, due to General Sikorski /Stalin agreement, Polish Military Forces in USSR were formed. Henryk Gold, Jerzy Peterburski, Henryk Wars and other musicians who survived the Soviet prosons and labor camps, created the jazz orchestra performing for the Polish soldiers. They left USSR in 1943 with the whole Polish Army, to join the allied forces in the West. In 1946, rather than return to Poland, where most of his family had been exterminated, Gold decided to try his luck in Paris. He formed a large orchestra that played light-classical pieces, as well as the tangos for which he had been known. This orchestra recorded for the French label SATURNE, including a very rare 'picture disc' of a tune that Gold wrote called "Autumn Serenade". (The French commercial from that time could be uploaded in my clip thanks to the courtesy of Mr Peter Nahon from Paris). Henryk Gold continued to lead orchestras through the 1950's -- also in the US, where he emigrated in 1953. In 1953-66 he directed the orchestra at the „Plaza" hotel in New York and after that, other revue and music-hall bands. In 1977 he retired, and he died in New York City in 1979.

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