TOMASZ STAŃKO: BACK IN THE USA

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Tomasz Stańko wybiera się w kwietniu br. na kolejna trasę po Stanach Zjednoczonych. Tym razem słynny trębacz będzie promować ze swoim skandynawskim kwintetem album „Dark Eyes” (ECM). 

Trasa rozpocznie się 3 kwietnia w Baltimore, w stanie Maryland, a zakończy 20 kwietnia w Bostonie, Massachussets. Kulminację stanowić będzie pięć koncertów, 13 - 17 kwietnia, w nowojorskim klubie Birdland. Koncerty te będą nagrywane i materiał ten być może zostanie wydane na płycie. 

Tomasz Stanko New Quintet
3.04 Baltimore, Maryland – An die Musik
5.04 Seattle, Washington – Triple Door
10.04 Denver, Colorado – Dazzles
11.04 San Francisco, California – San Francisco Jazz Festival
13.04 New York, NY – Birdland
14.04 New York, NY – Birdland
15.04 New York, NY – Birdland
16.04 New York, NY – Birdland
17.04 New York, NY – Birdland
20.04 Boston, Massachusetts – Regattabar

Klub Birdland (bilety po $30) reklamuje koncerty Stańki cytując fragment recenzji Thomasa Conrada w magazynie „Stereophile”:

Inspired by early Ornette Coleman and the innovations of Coltrane, Miles Davis and George Russell, the group is often cited by music historians as the first European group to play free jazz, Tomasz Stanko’s smouldering Slavic soul music and grainy-toned trumpet finds a new context on “Dark Eyes.” Like his hero Miles Davis, the Polish jazz master also has an impressive record as talent scout and mentor, and his latest ensemble pools young players from the North of Europe. “Stanko evokes the spirits of the finest trumpeters dead and living while creating a mood and a voice uniquely his own. Yes, you can hear the influences of Miles Davis and Chet Baker at their most introspective and profound, as well as hotter, more rasping traces of Lee Morgan and Clifford Brown. Stanko stands shoulder to hiply-slumped shoulder with ‘Kind of Blue,’ and has an even-better sound – ECM’s deep and finely-burnished finest.”