Earlier name
- Komet-Band. A band formed by Andrzej Kadłuczka
in 1961, playing instrumental music, in particular numbers by the English group The Shadows. It was based at
the "Oaza" club at the Kraków Cable Factory.
Out of the many Kraków bands considered, it was the only one chosen
to play for a time at the Pod Jaszczurami club. In various line-ups it existed until
1968. It was disbanded by its founder after
Andrzej Zaucha left for Dżamble.
Line-ups:
lead guitar - Andrzej Kadłuczka
bass guitar - Ryszard Stryjski / Marian Pawlik / Tadeusz Błaszak
rhythm guitar - Zbigniew Gdula / Antoni Pazdalski / Stanisław Dziewoński / Antoni Krupa
drums - Zdzisław Wawrzyńczak / Tadeusz Fudaliński / Zdzisław Nazarko /
Adam Pukalak / Benedykt Radecki / Janusz Gajec
Tenor sax - Wacław Buratowski / Zbigniew Sztyc
Piano - Marek Kosek
Trumpet - Andrzej Jakóbiec
Trombone - Marek Michalak
vocals - Jerzy Świerczek / Elżbieta Żakowicz / Włodzimierz Gurgul / Wiesława Bator / Kazimierz
Bocheński / Marek Pawlak / Andrzej Zaucha
Special thanks for the audio material below go to those who helped to obtain it:
Stanisław Socha, Michał Owczarek i Janusz Cholewa
It so happened that
Marek Jamrozy of the band
Szwagry had to leave for military service.
It also happened that Szwagry were to play at the Sala Kongresowa (Congress Hall) in Warsaw, at a
concert together with the English guitar group The Shadows. Luck smiled on
Andrzej Kadłuczka
of Telstar, who at that time was standing in for
Marek Jamrozy, the lead guitarist of
Szwagry.
A virtuoso player of
The Shadows numbers - Marek Jamrozy -
missed by two months a live meeting with those
whose music he had played with great passion in a band very well known in Kraków at the time -
Czarne Koty.
Szwagry appeared in the first part of the concert - before
The Shadows - on 11 October 1965.
In the second part
of the concert Szwagry could admire the Vox amplifiers, the Burns guitars and the unique
sound of The Shadows.
The event is documented by the material below.