Jazz Articles

Tomasz Stanko: Wolnosc w Sierpniu (Freedom in August)

by John Kelman
November 29, 2005

Trumpeter Tomasz Stańko has found increasing international exposure in recent years due to a string of fine ECM recordings, including Leosia (1997), Litania (1997) and Suspended Night (2004). But while his reappearance on the international scene is relatively recent, he has a perhaps not-so-surprisingly considerable discography released only in his native Poland, which ranges from Bosonossa (GOWI, 1993)--with his nascent quartet featuring Bobo Stenson, Anders Jormin, and Tony Oxley--to works for theatre and film. Regardless of context, Stańko's distinctive raspy ...