Jazz Articles about Tomasz Stańko

About Tomasz Stańko

Profile

Jazz of the '50s and '60s shared the overtly political side of much music from the period. Black musicians in the States and expatriates in Europe used their music as a platform for radical ideas that would reach a presumably sympathetic audience. Going back even further in history demonstrates the role jazz played in both breaking the color barrier and exacerbating it. In Europe, jazz was a palliative against centuries of orthodoxy. In Eastern Europe, the music was ...

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Album Review

Tomasz Stanko Quartet: Soul of Things

Read "Soul of Things" reviewed by Mark F. Turner

by Mark F. Turner
April 23, 2002

Like a vintage wine that gets better with age, 60 year old Tomasz Stanko from Poland is the epitome that proves that jazz just gets better and better. With a rich and dark tone that is reminiscent of many great horn players, especially Miles Davis; Stanko forges ahead with grace and power that is fiery yet reserved. His latest recording Soul of Things is a work of skill and art. The recording comprises a theme that is played out as ...