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Krzysztof Popek: Estate
by Jerry D'Souza
Alto flautist Krzysztof Popek gives his music another vantage point with Estate. From Poland, Popek has long been part of a very fertile and evolving turf that included Michal Urbaniak, Tomasz Stanko and Jaroslaw Smietana. It was in this environment that Popek established himself as the leading flautist of the country. But boundaries dissolve with the ...
10th Bray Jazz Festival
by Ian Patterson
10th Bray Jazz Festival Bray, Ireland May 1-3, 2009 The small town of Bray in county Wicklow is not the most obvious location for an international jazz festival. Situated twenty kilometers south of the capital Dublin and hugging the coast, it has been battered by the Irish Sea since at least 1300, ...
Krzysztof Komeda: Poet of the Piano
by Jakob Baekgaard
To this day, the influence of Polish composer and pianist Krzysztof Komeda (1931-1969) can be felt in the works of contemporary artists like Marcin Wasilewski and, of course, in the music of his former trumpeter, Tomasz Stanko. It isn't too much to say that Komeda transformed the landscape of European jazz by the way he re-conceptualised ...
Tomasz Stanko Quartet at the 2009 Norfolk and Norwich Festival, Day 2
by Bruce Lindsay
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 ...
May 2009
by AAJ Staff
Jamie Baum & Tomasz StankoJamie Baum Septet and Tomasz Stanko QuartetMerkin HallNew York City April 4, 2009It was a pretty sure bet that “Juxtapositions In Jazz," a Merkin Concert Hall double bill featuring the Jamie Baum Septet and Tomasz Stanko Quartet (Apr. 4th), would live up to its ...
Mark O'Leary: Plucking the Flower
by Eyal Hareuveni
Irish guitarist Mark O'Leary emerged on the global improvised music scene in the last few years, pushing his bold vision and broad scope of musicality through constantly-changing collaborations. O'Leary can cross easily between genres, from progressive, synth-laden rock and seventies fusion to free jazz and abstract soundscapes.The guitarist's encyclopedic interests and remarkable prolificacy are ...
Tomasz Stanko Quartet with Billy Harper at MoMA: Tribute to Krzysztof Komeda
by Budd Kopman
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 ...
Haunting Soundtracks: Jazz with a Polish Accent
The Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stanko's records of the last six years, with their elegiac moods and clean, controlled lyricism, have become a primary reference point for current European jazz. So it was curious to see him taking a step back into a woollier past on Monday in a performance at the Museum of Modern Art, part ...
Tomasz Stanko: Lontano
by AAJ Italy Staff
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 ...
Lontano
Label: ECM Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Lontano, Part I; Cyrhla; Song for Ania; Kattorna; Lontano, Part II; Sweet Thing; Trista;
Lontano, Part III; Tale.
