Heres a part of my item about Henryk Gold, written for NFO.NET (Big Bands Database): Henryk Gold was a pioneer in the history of Polish jazz and dance music. He was born in 1899 in Warsaw 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 note, writing many of the tangos that were popular during the 1920s and 30s. 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 Karasinski, a saxophonist, who (together with Szymon Kataszek) founded the very first Polish jazz band in 1923 (?Karasinski & Kataszek Jazz- Tango Orchestra"). 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. During the 1930s 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, and joining his brother Artur, and fellow songwriter Jerzy Petersburski (composer of "Oh Donna Clara") in running "Adria" - a very popular night club in Warsaw. The popular refrain from that time says: ?Gdy Petersburski razem z Goldem gra/ nie za?niesz przez noc a? do dnia!" (When Petersburski plays with Gold/you wont be able to sleep the whole night, till dawn). In early 1939, Gold and his Orchestra were invited to be part of the delegation from Poland to the Worlds Fair in New York. During their time at the Fair they played for dancers at the Polish Pavilion. The outbreak of war on September 1, 1939 forced Gold and the Band to stay in the United States temporarily, which was quite a lucky break for them. Golds brother Artur was not so lucky, he perished in Treblinka in 1943. Gold and most of his musicians volunteered to join General Wladislaw Anders and his Polish Emigree Army,allied with the Anglo-French Forces in their struggle with the Nazizm in Europe. In 1946, rather than return to Poland, where most of his family had been exterminated in Holocaust, Gold stayed in France, where he continued to lead various tango & waltz orchestras through the 1950s. Recording: Orkiestra pod dyr. Henryka Golda, refren: Tadeusz Faliszewski - Idzie wiosna! (Spring Is Coming!/ In the sunlight Warsaw smiles), Syrena Electro c. 1930

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Agregado: August 26, 2007