Jazz Articles about Tomasz Stańko

Molde Jazz: Day 2, July 14, 2009

by John Kelman
July 16, 2009

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6Arve Henriksen / Marilyn Mazur / Tomasz Stańko Molde Jazz Molde, Norway July 14, 2009For 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 ...

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

by Bruce Lindsay
May 22, 2009

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tomasz Stanko: Lontano and Levitation

by Elliott Simon
October 8, 2006

Tomasz Stańko Quartet Lontano ECM Records 2006 Mark O'Leary/Tomasz Stańko/Billy Hart Levitation Leo Records 2005

For more than four decades, Tomasz Stanko's trumpet has been a voice of freedom within Polish jazz, combining a supple improvisational landscape with both European and American influences. Stanko's symbiotic relationship with his current quartet of ...

Tomasz Stanko Quartet: Lontano

by Edward Zucker
September 10, 2006

Perfect chemistry should not be disturbed, and Tomasz Stanko and ECM reprise their winning combination on Lontano. This is the third ECM release with Stanko and his regular trio of pianist Marcin Wasilewski, bassist Slawomir Kurkiewicz and drummer Michal Miskiewicz. As with the previous two releases, this disc features variations of a tune, in this case the title tune. The band visits “Lontano" three times. In each subsequent interpretation they deconstruct and explore it with agile sensitivity.

While ...