ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
To the administrator of the TITAN server, Łukasz Sikora, for providing space for the site; to Leszek Trojanowski for extensive photographic material from the early 1960s on the bands Ametysty and Biała Gwiazda; to Krzysztof Partyka for information and documentation on the band Ametysty;
Wacław Kraszewski
to Wacław Kraszewski for photographs and excellent biographical material on the band Biała Gwiazda;
Ryszard Wilk
to Antoni Krupa for extensive photographic material on the bands Jazz Band Ball, 5+ and The Lessers, together with a short history of these bands;
to Rysiek Wilk from Canada for the photograph of the band Pięciu Z Nad Wisły and material from the Toronto Shadows Club, as well as other material.. and also for his great moral and material support in all things The Shadows, the value of which is priceless to me;
to Ryszard Stadnik for photographs of the bands Szwagry and Jupitery;
Krystyna Downar
to Krystyna Downar for her great commitment to promoting the singing and music of the 1950s and 60s, for organising and popularising wonderful vocal and music competitions for schoolchildren, and for achieving the impossible - obtaining archive material from that period and historically verifying the existing material - painstaking work in pursuit of these noble aims;
to Sławek Butenko for material on the band Ametysty; to Anna Matlach Górnisiewicz for material on the band Bezimienni;
to Zbyszek Szczepanowski for material on the bands Czarne Diamenty and Popioły, and for his great personal commitment; to Wiesio Kuśnierz from Melbourne for photographs of the band Czarne Diamenty; to Jola Kwiecień-Wcisło (Doniec), Asia Przybylska (Makiej), Stefan Rzytki and Rysiek Jakubowski from Bartlett - for photographs and material on the band Ryszardy; to Jurek Kokosza for photographs and information on the band Big5; to Jurek Szwejkowski for his personal commitment, cooperation and photographs, and to Radek Ratyński for photographs and press cuttings for the Ryszardy photo gallery; to Zdzisław Gogulski for supplying details on the band Zefiry; to Gienek Górski for supplying photographs, taken at a guitar-band contest, of the band Nikt Nic Nie Wie; to Adam Poręba for photographs of the band Ab Ovo; to Bogdan Dijuk for photographs and information on the bands Hrabiowie, Ab Ovo, Górale and Szwagry, together with sound recordings; to Andrzej Icha for details and photographs of the band Kon-Tiki and for our evening online chats about the 1960s in Kraków... to Ryszard Murak from New York for material on the band Ryszardy; to Andrzej Jarek from Lublin for material on the band Nieznani; to Wiesław Karkoszka for photographs and material on the band Huragany;
to Jerzy Garncarczyk from Canada for photographs and material on the band Grodzianie; to Józef Maj for photographs and material on the band Rafy; to Roman Hanisz for material on the band Rywale; to Krzysztof Brzegowy for material on the band Żaczki; to Roman Antkowiak for material on the band Kix; to Andrzej Robak for material on the band Bratki;
to Romek Kapelan for material on the band Błękitni and on the band Szafiry; to Krzyś Siatka for photographs of the band Trops; to Adam Kowalczyk for photographs of the bands My od Krakowa, Banici and Błękitni, together with information about them, for his personal commitment and for putting me in touch with the musicians; to Janusz Satała for photographs of the bands Elfy and Termitiery; to Jerzy Grzeszczuk for photographs of the band Fantom; to Kazimierz Bocheński for photographs of the band Szwagry (II) and material on the band ElektroStons;
to Janek Kaleta for material on the bands Bardowie, Ad Libitum, Donaldy, Tip Top, Cracovia 65, Heralds and many others, and for passing on detailed information about many bands; to Janusz Schilbach for material on the band Donaldy; to Jerzy Cichocki for material on the band Wulkany; to Adam Haracz for material on the band Signum;
to Jerzy Fasiński for material on the bands Wawele, Czarne Perły and Duchy; to Andrzej Bogunia for material on the bands Kwaśne Mleko and Trefle; to Jacek Mastykarz for material on the band Krak-5; to Leszek Palca for material on the band Wawele;
to Krzysztof Marjański and Andrzej Mierzwa for material on the band Złote Struny; to Krysia Święcicka-Wójcik for material on the band Zdrój Jana; to Wiesław Szerla for his recollections of the band Zdrój Jana and for sound material, and to Jerzy Kołacz and Grzegorz Jędrzejowski for material on the history of that band; to Jacek Biegus and Marek Biegus for photographs of the band Zdrój Jana;
to Jana and Jacek Romiszewski from California for photographs of the bands Inni, Grupa Karboxydowa and Szwagry; to Ela Łuckoś Krawczyk for information and photographs of the band Szymony.
To Felek Naglicki for spurring me on to put the information on the site in order, along with his suggestions - most of which have been used - for making the site easier to read, and also for sharing material on the bands Safe, F.I. Safe, N.N. Station, Galaxy and Pacific, with a very nicely presented chronology.
Jola Brożek
To Jola Brożek for sharing photographic material and for permission to publish the photographs of Józef Brożek; to Józef Brożek and Stanisław Gawliński - press photographers of the weekly Głos Nowej Huty - for their work, thanks to which most of the photographic material used on this site has survived.
To Andrzej Wróbel for photo sessions of the later line-ups of Czarne Diamenty (Biała Gwiazda); to Władysław Rospondek for photographic material from the 1960s for the article by Stanisław Florek on the history of culture in Nowa Huta;
to Staszek Alker from Nuremberg for photographs of the successive incarnations of the band Czarne Diamenty; to Zbyszek Dobrzyński from Turoszów for archive items from the national festival of bands in Płock; to Ryszard Promiński from Vienna for his offer of technical help with the photographic material; to Jerzy Mondrzyk from Vienna for his personal commitment and material on the groups Bezdomni and Wiślanie; to Gienio Grzesiak, likewise for material on these bands; to Janusz Gajec for information on the band Biała Gwiazda and for photographic documentation and information on the bands Czarne Koty and Czarty; to Andrzej Kadłuczka for superb photographic documentation of the band Telstar; to Zbyszek Balicki from Australia for details of the bands Wander BOYS, Blue Seven Group, Modern Jazz Quintet, NOT, Sekstet krakowski, Gustaw Combo, Como Quartet, Coris Show, The Clan and most of the bands of the Kraków Estrada (the state concert agency); to Aleksander Glik for frequent consultations, photographs and information on the bands Zefiry, Duchy, Piasty and Wawelskie Smoki; to Andrzej Lorenz for photographs and information on the bands Piasty, Mini Max and Wawele; to Jacek Kafel from Chicago for photographs of the band Czarne Perły; to Krzysztof Dziarnowski from Szczecin for material on the band Kon-Tiki from Szczecin; to Jerzy Rożek for a photograph of the bands Biało Czarni and Wiktorianie and information about these bands; to Bogusław Dmochowski for photographs of the bands Wawele and Rytmy and information about these bands; to Rafał Marchewczyk for information on the bands Rafały and Haki; to Benedykt Radecki for photographs of Dżamble, The Lessers and Wawelskie Smoki; to Leszek Podstawka from New Jersey for photographs and material on the bands Rubiny, Quiz Combo, Nie To Co My, Telex Team and System; to Marian Pawlik for photographs of the bands Dżamble and The Lessers; to Andrzej Dutkiewicz for photographs of the bands Como Quintet and Quiz Combo; to Janusz Langenfeld for material on the band Nasz Zwariowany Świat; to Krystian Brodacki for material on the beginnings of jazz in Kraków; to Stanisław Florek for material on the beginnings of jazz and the beginnings of cabaret in Nowa Huta; to Przemysław Gwoździowski for material on the beginnings of jazz in Nowa Huta and for photographic material; to Adam Ślazyk for material on the band Kuzyni; to Zofia Pilarz for photographic material on the cabarets of the 1960s - The First Cabarets; to Grażyna Francuz-Ornat for photographic material on the band Błękitni; to Maria Szmid for photographic material on the band Ryszardy; to Antoni Czapkiewicz for photographic material on the band Rytm; to Lesław Leonard Kanik from the USA for photographic material on the bands of the Kraków Estrada and beyond..;
to Adam Gawor for material on the band of the Wander (Polfa) works - Big Beat Six, Strych, Beduino, Olimpijka; to Jerzy Morański (Giga) for material on the bands College Dixieland Band, Wiesław Schoenborn Quintet and George's Quartet and Eva; to Wojtek Stępniowski (Wowo) for additions to the material on the bands Nie To Co My and Rytmy, for material on the band Takt and for retouching many of the photographs; to Tadeusz Gogosz from Norway for information and corrections; to Krystyna Walczak from Barcelona for corrections to the material on the history of culture in Nowa Huta and for photographs from cultural events; to Zygmunt Zieliński for material on the band Szwagry;
to Janusz Cholewa for his painstaking work on the audio restoration of some recordings by the bands Błękitni, Czarne Diamenty and Telstar, and for the marked improvement in their quality; to Janusz Nowotarski for material on the band Playing Family; to Józef Czyż for additions on the band Quiz Combo; to Piotr Nitecki for material on The Story of One Cellar; to Marta Kawecka (Garusińska) for photographs of the band Biała Gwiazda; to Piotr Kosieradzki for material on the band Hazard 74; to Roman Kapelan for touching up the recordings on the page Ryszardy-muzyka; to Jan Hubrich for photographs of the band Hrabiowie and an extensive chronicle of the 1960s and 70s; to Wandzia Cygan-Zuch from Vienna for material on the first cabaret in Nowa Huta - The First Cabarets;
to Adam Ćwikliński from Warsaw for sound material of the band Szwagry; to Janusz Sadłowski from Kraków for sound material of the band Szwagry and to Mieczysław Suder from Skoczów for sound material of the band Szwagry; to Marek Pawlak from Sweden for material on the band Czarne Perły; to Adam Gryczyński for photographic material for the article The Charm of Beauty and Creative Passion - Carlotta Bologna; to Jola Borusiewicz and Leszek Jarmuła from Sweden for sharing material from their website www.jolaandles.se; to Juliusz Malik for photographic material on the beginnings of jazz in Nowa Huta; to Żywisław Szczerbiński for photographic material on the beginnings of jazz in Nowa Huta
...and of course.. to the guitar group The Shadows for their clean-sounding, melodic and rhythmic music, which inspired us in our work all along.
My special thanks go to Jerzy Ridan, who in the 1960s made a documentary film about the bands and the dances at Ognisko Młodych - the Violinka club - fragments of which have been used on this site.
Jerzy Ridan
Stanisław Florek
The 1960s at the ZDK (the steelworks' House of Culture) in Kraków - Nowa Huta are inseparably linked with Jan Żabicki, M.A., the head of the ZDK. It was also the time of Ms Maria Kwiecień, the artistic director - always deeply committed and caring towards those with whose help she carried out the whole programme - and of Stanisław Florek, for many years the head of the Nowa Huta Jazz Club, the initiator of many successful ventures on both the music and the cabaret scene, in particular the founding in the 1950s of the first jazz band, the first concert and the Jazz Club in Nowa Huta, and later of the first cabarets, in which he also took part as a performer. I also thank him very much for the series of articles describing the history of culture, cabaret and jazz in Nowa Huta, as well as its bands and various fields of the arts.
2003 - 2026 Kraków