Tomasz Stanko Quartet

"He takes a painterly approach to sound...evocative, darkly shaded and impressionistic."-- JazzTimes A key player on the European jazz scene and master of a sublime atmospheric sound, Polish trumpeter and composer Tomasz Stanko regularly draws comparisons to Chet Baker and to Miles Davis in the Kind of Blue era. His keen lyricism and striking contrasts between meditative passages and flares of emotion also show the influence of his mentor, the brilliant Polish film composer and jazz artist Krzysztof Komeda, best known for the Rosemary's Baby soundtrack. These important figures have certainly informed Stanko's vivid moodscapes. Yet, in the end, it's his consistent inventiveness and the virtuosity of his first-rate band that stay with you. As Billboard put it, "Few jazz recordings, on either side of the Atlantic, are being made with this much poetry."

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Tomasz Stanko Quartet
left to right:
Michal Miskiewicz: drums
Tomasz Stanko: trumpet
Slawomir Kurkiewicz: double-bass
Marcin Wasilewski: piano

Photo: Andrzej Tyszko / ECM Records

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Tomasz Stanko Quartet
Photo: © Luciano Rossetti / ECM Records

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Tomasz Stanko
Photo: Andrzej Tyszko / ECM Records