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Orkiestra Arcadi Flato & Chór Juranda – Dobry wieczór (Good Evening] Fox-trot (Landau-Włast) Odeon 1034 (Polish) NOTE: Arkadi FLATO, also Arcadi, Arkady Flato (d. 1942 in Warsaw) - violinist, jazz musician and conductor. One of the forerunners of jazz in Poland. Musician and arranger of Argentine tangos. Born in Poland, he became involved in the German music scene in the 1920s, performing in numerous Berlin dance orchestras. In 1933, when the Nazis came to power, he left Germany with Ady Rosner, a famous jazz trumpeter from Krakow. In the 1930s, he was one of the musicians who launched the jazz movement in Poland. He was an arranger for Polish Radio and occasionally led the Odeon studio orchestra. During World War II, he opened a “gypsy“ cafe called Tawerna in the Warsaw ghetto. In 1941, he performed as a soloist at the Modern Café at 10 Nowolipki St. in Warsaw with Artur Gold's orchestra and with Władysław Szpilman in a program called The Great Festival of Gypsy Romances. He committed suicide in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942, during one of the “Endlösung“ actions organized against Jews by the Germans in the Warsaw Ghetto. This lively foxtrot is accompanied by scenes from pre-war Warsaw nightspots.
