Tomasz captures the spirit of Miles, Charlie and Duke along with the Jazz Heartbeat of NYC.
Tomasz Stanko New York Quartet
Wisława
Tomasz Stanko trumpet
David Virelles piano
Thomas Morgan bass
Gerald Cleaver drums
Recorded June 2012 at Avatar Studios, New York
Engineer: James A. Farber
Assistant: Charlie Kramsky
Produced by Manfred Eicher
They call it: space.
It’s easy to define with that one word,
much harder with many.
The verse comes from the poem “Before a Journey” by Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska, whose legacy gives color to a starry tribute from trumpeter Tomasz Stanko. Given the snapshot ethics of Szymborska’s visual language, one could find no better musical interpreter to put this epigraph to the test. For though words may indeed fall short of expressing these swaths of infinitude we call “albums,” the language of instruments in the right hands can accomplish the impossible.
Wisława Szymborska (1923-2012)
One need hardly expound the virtues of Stanko’s new allies, each handpicked from the profuse garden of the New…
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