A mixture of eager anticipation and horrible sadness surrounded trumpeter Tomasz Stańko's early April arrival at Birdland. After creating a string of critically acclaimed albums in an acoustic quartet ...

The fire hinted at in Tomasz Stańko's most recent album, Dark Eyes (2009, ECM), has become the focal point of his new quintet's live operations. Whereas the trumpeter's latest ECM disc ferments with ...

This album cover image released by ECM Records shows “September Night” by The Tomasz Stanko Quartet. (ECM Records via AP) Jazz trumpeter Tomasz Stanko ’s first notes on the new album "September Night, ...

Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stanko won the European Jazz Prize in 2002. At the Portland Jazz Festival, he talked with Luciana Lopez about the importance of intuition in music and the uniqueness of ...

Four white guys from Poland might just have a bead on where jazz may head in the early part of this century -- they play modern music executed with precision that seeks a balance of textures and ...

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The Museum of Modern Art’s Jazz Score series, which kicked off last month and continues through September, has focused on screening films with particularly memorable musical components. The program’s ...