
Tomasz Stanko Quartet
“Stanko evokes the spirits
of the finest trumpeters dead and living while creating a mood and
a voice uniquely his own"
Richard Lehnert, Stereophile, Record to Die For
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Toured Asia and Australia in 2005
Tomasz Stanko is at the forefront of international contemporary
jazz trumpetism, and holds a status in international jazz circles
similar to where Miles Davis was in the seventies.
He is one of ECM's leading jazz recording artists, drawing large
concert audiences in Europe and the USA. For two years in a row
(2005 and 2005) Tomasz Stanko has won the Australian Bell Jazz Award
for the best international album of the year.
"Tomasz Stanko's newest release, "Suspended
Night," is a masterpiece of minimalist beauty. A suite of interconnected
compositions, "Suspended Night" simply numbers its "Variations"
I to X. The unaffected simplicity and flexible modal structures
strip down chords and melody lines to allow each of the quartet
members to enter the flow with calm force or lay out with delicate
understatement. At times, the melody line rests on just repeated
pairs of notes -- the right ones.
The quartet has worked together regularly
since last year's equally intricate release, "The Soul of Things."
They let the rhythm drift into comfortable stillness, but aren't
shy to drive ahead either, letting individual notes resonate freely.
Still based in Poland, Stanko and quartet outcool the coolest of
the late '50s jazz groups and make it easy to see why he was awarded
the first European Prize in jazz last year." The Japan
Times/2004.
Line up:
Tomasz Stanko - trumpet
Marcin Wasilewski - piano
Slawomir Kurkiewicz - bass
Michal Miskiewicz - drums
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