All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
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 = 16763}}--(Soul of Things (ECM, 2002), Suspended Night (ECM, 2003) and Lontano (ECM, 2006)--Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stanko debuts a new and exciting...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
Polish trumpeter Stanko's new Finnish and Nordic quintet, with Jacob Bro on guitar, can sound either plangently acoustic or modestly electric. While this is a relatively low-key Stanko set, it's still full of his customary quiet intensity, both in his own excellent playing and that of the band. Unusually for any album, Dark Eyes gets better the longer it goes on, and the highlights are...
DJ Martian's Page (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
London Jazz Festival commenced on Friday. BBC website: BBC - Radio 3 - London Jazz Festival 2009 Tomorrow on Radio 3 : ECM recording artist Tomasz Stanko : BBC - BBC Radio 3 Programmes - Jazz on 3, Tomasz Stanko at the London Jazz Festival Jez Nelson presents Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stanko recorded in concert at the 2009 London Jazz Festival. Known for his...
bebop spoken here (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Tomasz Stanko - trumpet, Jakob Bro - guitar, Alexi Tuomarila - piano, Anders Christensen - bass, Olavi Louhivuori - drums. Some years ago I read a collection of short stories by William Price Fox - "Southern Fried". They are magnificent tales of the American deep south - seek it out, I think it has been re-printed with 6 extra stories. The particular story relevant to tonights...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
The previous night the London Jazz Festival gave us an artist who’s gone beyond all thoughts of image, if he ever had any. The great Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stanko has at the age of 67 carved out a unique expressive territory. As he unfurled one lovely meditative number after another, I wondered whether he is not now the finest melodist in jazz. His new and amazingly young Scandinavian...
LondonJazz (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
All of these shows are now sold out: Sonny Rollins at Barbican Marcus Miller at Barbican Chick Corea at Barbican (both shows) Naturally 7 at Theatre Royal Stratford East (tickets still available for shows at Royal Festival Hall and Fairfield, Croydon) Branford Marsalis at QEH Tomasz Stanko at QEH Dave Holland/Overtone Quartet at QEH Tord Gustavsen at QEH John Scofield at QEH Vijay Iyer...
LondonJazz (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
... to the mix does - Branford Marsalis , just because he can be such fun -I'm also going to see Tomasz Stanko . -I failed to get tickets to see Sonny Rollins , who was so well reviewed last year - but I'll admit one reason for wanting to see him is the fear that I might not have another chance! ,
