The album documents short lived but very important Stanko's cooperation with McCoy Tyner - influenced pianist Kulpowicz, one of the most innovative bass players in Europe - Rek and the legendary drummer Czeslaw Bartkowski.

TOMASZ STANKO
MUSIC 81
Polish Jazz vol. 69

Polskie Nagrania PNCD 939, Poland, 2004

Audio Playlist:

Tomasz Stanko playlist

Tracks:

1. Alusta 11'40
2. Daada 07'15
3. Bushka 05'50
4. Third Heavy Ballad 06'50
5. Ahuha 08'35

Line-up:

Tomasz Stanko - trumpet
Slawomir Kulpowicz - piano
Vitold Rek - bass
Czeslaw "Maly" Bartkowski - drums

Recorded:

April 1982, Warsaw, Poland

About:

"…Stanko’s playing is nothing if not normal. What we have here is regular timing and classical functional harmony, which only sometimes is transformed into expanded tonality and free jazz…Compared with Stanko’s other work, so dramatic, expressive and restless, this album is and important event…" (Kazimierz Czyz, Jazz Forum)

"I have always been interested in tradition. At Krzysztof Komeda's we would mostly listen to scale music: Miles Davies, John Coltrane. This was my inspiration. Naturally, Ornette Coleman was important, too, but more as an example of a certain attitude to art - that of search and rebellion - than as an offer of a specific music convention." (Tomasz Stanko)

Manufacturer: N/A
SKU:	PNCD969