Tomasz Stańko

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Tomasz Stańko

Tomasz Ludwik Stańko (born July 11, 1942 in Rzeszów ; † July 29, 2018 in Warsaw ) was a Polish jazz musician . Stańko was one of the most outstanding jazz musicians in Europe . On the trumpet he developed a completely independent sound in all registers, which Hans Kumpf characterized as "rough and warm". Because of its dark, enigmatic tone, it was also called "Edgar Allan Poe the trumpet". He belongs to the first generation of European musicians who sought and found new ways of expressing their own music in response to American free jazz .

Live and act

Stańko, who grew up in a musical family and, as a violinist's child, received piano and violin lessons at an early age, studied music at the Music Academy in Cracow until he graduated in 1969 . Then in 1962 he founded the quartet Jazz Darings with pianist Adam Makowicz , which stylistically was based on Ornette Coleman's free jazz ; the band won an amateur jazz competition that same year, in which the trumpeter was recognized as the best musician. In 1963 he was invited to the Jazz Jamboree by Krzysztof Komeda to play in his band, to which he belonged for several years and with which he also performed in Scandinavia. The Tomasz Stańko Quartet was one of the best modern jazz groups in Europe from 1967 to 1973 (with Zbigniew Seifert and Bronisław Suchanek, among others ) . In 1973 he recorded the record Fish Face together with the drummers Stu Martin and Janusz Stefański , on which he (at the same time as Tony Oxley and Paul Lytton ) experimented with electronic sounds as one of the first freer jazz musicians. Until the beginning of the 1980s, Stańko did not join any formation on a permanent basis, but performed with various musicians (including Dave Holland , Tomasz Szukalski , Edward Vesala , Cecil Taylor , Heinz Sauer ). The solo album Music from Taj Mahal and Karla Caves was created in India in 1980 . Then he worked with the trio of Sławomir Kulpowicz . He played fusion music with COCX and his Freelectronic (to which Tadeusz Sudnik , Janusz Skowron and Vitold Rek belonged) and also performed at the Jazz Festival Montreux . His Komeda tribute Litania received the German Record Prize in 2000 . In the first decade of the new millennium he first played with the musicians of the Simple Acoustic Trio ( Marcin Wasilewski - piano, Sławomir Kurkiewicz - double bass, Michał Miśkiewicz - drums). In 2013 the double album Wisława by Stańkos New York Quartet was released, which was a tribute to the late Polish poet and Nobel Prize winner Wisława Szymborska .

Tomasz Stańko (2011)

Stańko recorded about forty albums. In the 1990s, a more intensive collaboration began with the Munich label ECM . He also wrote numerous film scores , for which he was nominated several times for the Polish Film Prize. In 2005 he composed the music for the opening of the Warsaw Uprising Museum in 1944 and published the music on the CD Freedom in August .

Joachim-Ernst Berendt called him the "white Ornette Coleman", which Stańko rejected.

For the award-winning US TV series Homeland , Tomasz Stańko's piece Terminal 7 from the 2009 Stańko album Dark Eyes was chosen as part of the background music.

Stańko succumbed to cancer on July 29, 2018 after giving his last concert in March of the same year.

Publications (selection)

  • 1961: Jazz Jamboree '61
  • 1965: Astigmatic (Krzysztof Komeda Quintet)
  • 1970: Music for K (with Zbigniew Seifert, Janusz Muniak , Bronisław Suchanek, Janusz Stefański)
  • 1975: Balladyna
  • 1984: Lady Go
  • 1987: Live at Montreux Jazz Festival
  • 1989: Tomasz Stanko: Polish Jazz
  • 1989: Chameleon
  • 1993: Goodbye Maria
  • 1993: Bosonossa and Other Ballads
  • 1999: From the Green Hill
  • 1997: Litania
  • 2002: Soul of Things
  • 2002: Suspended Night
  • 2005: Wolność W Sierpniu (Freedom in August)
  • 2006: Lontano
  • 2009: Dark Eyes (PL: Double platinum× 2Double platinum )
  • 2013: Wisława
  • 2017: December Avenue

Web links

Commons : Tomasz Stańko  - collection of images

Individual references, comments

  1. ↑ Tomasz Stańko | Biography | Archiwum Polskiego Rocka 1961 - 2019. Retrieved March 23, 2019 (pl-PL).
  2. ↑ mdr.de: At the age of 76: Polish jazz trumpeter Tomasz Stanko died | MDR.DE . ( mdr.de [accessed on July 30, 2018]).
  3. ↑ See Martin Kunzler : Jazz-Lexikon. Volume 2: M – Z (= rororo-Sachbuch. Vol. 16513). 2nd Edition. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-499-16513-9 , p. 1269.
  4. ↑ Stuart Nicolson Tomasz Stanko: The Soul of Freedom JazzTimes 2002
  5. ↑ cf. Max Harrison , Charles Fox, Eric Thacker The Essential Jazz Records: Modernism to postmodernism London 2000, p. 510
  6. ^ Dpa: Jazz trumpeter Tomasz Stańko died . In: The world . ( welt.de [accessed on July 30, 2018]).
  7. ^ Review of All About Jazz
  8. ↑ 6th place in the Polish pop charts, cf. Press release ( Memento of the original dated November 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , #ECM 2115. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ecmrecords.com
  9. ↑ Awards for music sales: PL
  10. ↑ Meeting (Drummers World)
  11. ↑ Tomasz Stanko New York Quartet: December Avenue review - haunting tone poetry and avant-swing , album review in The Guardian on April 6, 2017, accessed May 6, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Stańko, Tomasz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stańko, Tomasz Ludwik (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish jazz trumpeter
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Rzeszów
DATE OF DEATH 29th July 2018
Place of death Warsaw