Bondi Vesolovsky and Yabtso Jazz: swinging Lviv in the 1920s-30s

Of course, at that time in Polish-ruled Western Ukraine, the Lviv night-club scene was dominated by Polish jazz bands. Lvivers danced to the music of Warsaw composers, such as Tadeusz Faliszewski, Henryk Wars and many others, as well as cover bands mimicking or re-interpreting original Italian and German hits. During this period, Ukrainian-language music was…