Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stanko has earned a well-deserved reputation as one of the best European jazz trumpet players around and has been described as 'the Polish Miles Davis' many times."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.
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.
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teleia.. xreiazomouna new music gia to train trip to london. paw na parw goneis! it's going to be a hell of an experience!
καλως να τους δεχτείς :)
We are family
I got all my sisters with me
We are family
Get up ev'rybody and sing sing sing!
:)
stanko is great alright, in the vein of great european players like enrico rava that ECM's manfred eicher has done so much to promote, we owe this guy big time!
great blog guys :)
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piasame idi murple mou!
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