Tomasz Stańko
Tomasz Stanko ( born July 11, 1942 in Rzeszów) is a Polish jazz musician. Stańko one of the outstanding jazz musicians in Europe. On the trumpet, he has developed in all registers, a completely unique sound that Hans Kumpf characterized as " rough and warm ." Because of its dark, enigmatic tone, he was also known as " Edgar Allan Poe of the trumpet ." It belongs to the first generation of European musicians who have sought in response to the American free jazz novel ways of its own musical expression and found.
Life and work
Stanko, who grew up in a musical family and was the son of a violinist's early piano and violin lessons, studied up to the diploma in 1969 graduated from music at the Music Academy in Krakow. Then he founded in 1962 with pianist Adam Makowicz of the quartet Jazz Darings that stylistically the free jazz of Ornette Coleman oriented; the band won an amateur jazz competition in which the trumpeter was named the best musicians in the same year. In 1963 he was invited to the Jazz Jamboree by Krzysztof Komeda to play in his band, of which he was for several years and with whom he also appeared in Scandinavia. The Tomasz Stanko Quartet counted - 1967-1973 ( inter alia with Zbigniew Seifert and Bronisław Suchanek ) to the best modern jazz formations in Europe. In 1973, he played together with the drummers Stu Martin and Janusz Stefański a plate " Fish Face " on which he ( same time as Tony Oxley and Paul Lytton ) experimented as one of the first jazz musicians freer with electronic sounds. Until the early 1980s, Stańko no more formation joined permanently, but came with different musicians ( among others Dave Holland, Tomasz Szukalski, Edward Vesala, Cecil Taylor, Heinz Sauer) together. In India In 1980 the solo album Music from Taj Mahal and Karla Caves. Then he worked with the trio of Sławomir Kulpowicz. With C.O.C.X. and with his Freelectronic ( which included, among other things Vitold Rek ) he played fusion music and also appeared on the Festival Montreux Jazz on. His Komeda Tribute Litania 2000 received the German Record Prize. In the first decade of the new millennium he first played with the musicians of the Simple Acoustic Trio together ( Marcin Wasilewski - piano drums, Sławomir Kurkiewicz - - bass, Michał Miśkiewicz ). Currently (2013 ) worked the now living in New York trumpeter together with an American quartet.
Stańko took about forty albums. In the 1990s, a more intensive cooperation with the Munich label ECM began. He also wrote numerous film scores, for which he was nominated several times for the Polish Film Award. In 2005 he composed the music for the opening of the Museum of the Warsaw Uprising in 1944 and published the music on the CD Freedom in August.
Joachim Ernst Berendt called him "the white Ornette Coleman " what Stańko but rejected. Since the 1970s, his music has expanded through all areas of jazz; due to the integration, assimilation and resolution of conventional rhythms, harmonies and textures seemingly atonal and floating sounds that are ordered musically in a specific way. What makes the game Tomasz Stanko are his own unique sound, the Slavic melancholy and already at the first sound recognizable powerful, "dirty" sound of his trumpet.
For the award-winning American television series Homeland was chosen Tomasz Stanko copies Terminal 7 from the album Dark Eyes Stańko of 2009 as part of the background music.