Jazz Articles about Tomasz Stańko

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Tomasz Stanko Quintet at RNCM Theatre, Manchester

by David McLean
December 4, 2009

Tomasz Stanko Quintet RNCM Theatre Manchester, England October 11, 2009

The fire hinted at in Tomasz Stanko's most recent album, Dark Eyes (2009, ECM), has become the focal point of his new quintet's live operations. Whereas the trumpeter's latest ECM disc ferments with economical restraint and brooding atmosphere, the live incarnation of this material takes the looser and fierier elements of Dark Eyes and brings them to the foreground, creating a new panoramic view of the original source. ...

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Tomasz Stanko Quintet: Dark Eyes

by David McLean
November 5, 2009

Tomasz Stanko Quintet Dark Eyes ECM Records 2009

It has been a regular event at the ECM label for artists to change line-ups after three albums. After a trio of releases with the prodigiously talented pianist Marcin Wasilewski--(Soul of Things (ECM, 2002), Suspended Night (ECM, 2003) and Lontano (ECM, 2006)--Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stanko debuts a new and exciting quintet. Dark Eyes is a collection of smoky compositions that evidence Stanko's continuing interest ...

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Molde Jazz: Day 2, July 14, 2009

by John Kelman
July 16, 2009

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 Arve Henriksen / Marilyn Mazur / Tomasz Stańko Molde Jazz Molde, Norway July 14, 2009 For the uninitiated, it can be somewhat disorienting to leave a concert at 10 at night and find it still daylight outside; even more disconcerting when an outdoor show complete with gut-punching bass begins an hour later. In most cities ...

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Tomasz Stanko Quartet at the 2009 Norfolk and Norwich Festival, Day 2

by Bruce Lindsay
May 22, 2009

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 |

Tomasz Stanko QuartetNorfolk and Norwich FestivalSt Peter Mancroft ChurchNorwich, UKMay 3, 2009

Trumpeter Tomasz Stanko (pictured left) brought his quartet to the Norfolk and Norwich Festival for the first time, to perform in the beautiful 15th Century St. Peter Mancroft Church in the center of Norwich. The venue suited Stanko's ethereal trumpet style perfectly, even ...

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Tomasz Stanko Quartet with Billy Harper at MoMA: Tribute to Krzysztof Komeda

by Budd Kopman
June 3, 2008

Tomasz Stanko Quartet with Billy Harper: A Concert Tribute to Krzysztof KomedaMuseum of Modern ArtNew York City, NYMay 19, 2008 Starting last April, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) began running a series, called Jazz Score, celebrating original jazz composed for the scores of movies from the 1950s to the present. Pianist and composer Krzysztof Komeda (1931-1969) is represented by four films: Noz w wodzie (Knife In The Water), Le Gros e le maigre ...

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Tomasz Stanko: Lontano

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 5, 2007

Registrato al ritorno da una lunga tournée in Asia, per oltre metà interamente improvvisato (lo sono le tre lunghe tracce che portano lo stesso titolo dell’album), presentato in anteprima in estate, al Jazzfestival di Saalfelden (clicca qui per leggerne la recensione), il terzo album del quartetto “polacco” di Tomasz Stanko ne prosegue l’itinerario poetico, fatto di geniali astrazioni costruite dall’ottima, giovane ritmica, e dalle sospese, talora drammatiche narrazioni della tromba dell’anziano leader, ormai una delle voci strumentali più importanti e ...

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The Tomasz Stanko Quartet at Birdland

by Budd Kopman
November 8, 2006

Tomasz Stanko Quartet Birdland New York, NYOctober 28, 2006 Birdland was sold out on this night, and, as was the case in March 2005 for the Suspended Nights tour, the air was bubbling with Polish. The crowd, while highly anticipatory, was quite serious, but of a markedly different kind than for the Bobo Stenson Trio last April.

This crowd was here for trumpeter Tomasz Stanko, for Lontano, and to hear the next phase ...