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Gary Peacock - Voice From The Past: Paradigm (1982) {ECM 1210}

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Gary Peacock - Voice From The Past: Paradigm (1982) {ECM 1210}

Gary Peacock - Voice From The Past: Paradigm (1982) {ECM 1210}
WEB | FLAC tracks | Digital Booklet | 277MB + 5% Recovery
MP3 CBR 320 Kbps | 126MB + 5% Recovery
Genre: Avant-Garde Jazz, Post-Bop

This abstract quartet recording by bassist Gary Peacock features Jan Garbarek on tenor and soprano saxes, Tomasz Stanko on trumpet, and Jack DeJohnette on drums. The interplay between Peacock and DeJohnette, captured roughly two years before the release of the first Keith Jarrett standards record, is especially interesting. One only wishes the horns weren't so tinny. Highlights include the freebopping "Moor" (a piece that dates back to the early '60s), the lyrical "Ode for Tomten," and the chill-inducing "Voice From the Past."

Tomasz Stanko - Leosia (1997)

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Tomasz Stanko - Leosia (1997)

Tomasz Stanko - Leosia (1997)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 312 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 147 MB | Covers - 18 MB
Genre: Contemporary Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: ECM Records (ECM 1603)

The second ECM album from this Polish-Swedish-British edition of the Tomasz Stanko Quartet follows the critically-heralded Matka Joanna. As Jazz Journal wrote, 'Trumpeter Stanko's vibrant breadth of tone and poetic feeling for cross-rhythmic drama are second to none.' Leosia marks a further progression, incorporating six first-rate Stanko compositions in his brooding 'Slavic' style, darker than the darkest Miles (and incorporating a tribute to Lautréamont, literature's Count of Darkness), as well as bracing and exploratory duo and trio improvisations, and solos of the higherst calibre by all concerned. The group has an unusual claim on idiomatic completeness; it seems to summarize, in highly original manner, many of the important developments of jazz of the last 30 years…

Tomasz Stanko Quartet - Lontano (2006)

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Tomasz Stanko Quartet - Lontano (2006)

Tomasz Stanko Quartet - Lontano (2006)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 367 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 181 MB | Covers - 106 MB
Genre: Contemporary Jazz, Avant-garde Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: ECM Records (ECM 1980, 9877380)

The change of direction on Lontano, the third release by Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stanko and his three young collaborators - Marcin Wasilewski (piano), Slawomir Kurkiewicz (bass), and Michal Miskiewicz (drums) - is startling. Whereas Soul of Things (2002) and Suspended Night (2004) focused on Stanko's increasing sense of balladry and structurally harmonic, assonant atmospheres, Lontano showcases a band confident enough after playing for five years to find real space for free improvisation. Recorded in the south of France instead of Oslo, producer Manfred Eicher works his name magic and allows stillness and silence to play as much a role as the performers engaging one another musically. The opening title track is the first of three such excursions with the title "Lontano"…

Tomasz Stańko - Chameleon (1989) [Reissue 2006]

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Tomasz Stańko - Chameleon (1989) [Reissue 2006]

Tomasz Stanko - Chameleon (1989) [Reissue 2006]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 313 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 114 MB | Covers - 13 MB
Genre: Jazz, Fusion | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Metal Mind Productions (MMP CD DG 0401)

This album's title is perhaps the most concise and precise description of its contents. With the 1970s behind him Polish trumpeter / composer Tomasz Stanko takes a sharp turn off the path he followed previously as the leader of the local Free Jazz/avant-garde scene and as other musicians before him (or like a chameleon) entered the world of Jazz-Rock Fusion. The album was recorded in Athens in 1982 and remained unreleased until 1989 (by that time Stanko was already moving to the next phase of his career), when it was finally released by a small independent Greek label. But chronologically this is the first recording of Stanko's 1980s "new" style, preceding "C.O.C.X"…

Tomasz Stańko Quintet - Dark Eyes (2009)

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Tomasz Stańko Quintet - Dark Eyes (2009)

Tomasz Stanko Quintet - Dark Eyes (2009)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 335 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 145 MB | Covers - 110 MB
Genre: Contemporary Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: ECM Records (ECM 2115, 2711266)

Dark places can be foreboding, and also comforting or beautiful if put into proper context. Trumpeter Tomasz Stanko has always used introspection as a means for making his music, but on this recording he's all but snuffed out the candlelight, inspired by the wispy smoke that trails to the ceiling. During the 2000s he retained a regular working band of very young musicians, and for Dark Eyes he's formed a new band of promising up-and-coming players from Northern Europe, with instrumentation modified from the piano/bass/drums backup trio. The very subtle Danish guitarist Jakob Bro (from Paul Motian's band), multiple competition prize-winner Finnish pianist Alexi Tuomarila, Danish electric bass guitarist Anders Christensen (ex-Ravonettes and Motian), and drummer Olavi Louhivuori (also an accomplished pianist, violinist, and cellist) from Finland are all new names to the ECM family…

Tomasz Stańko Quintet - Purple Sun (1973) [Reissue 2006]

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Tomasz Stańko Quintet - Purple Sun (1973) [Reissue 2006]

Tomasz Stanko Quintet - Purple Sun (1973) [Reissue 2006]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 274 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 92 MB | Covers - 18 MB
Genre: Jazz, Fusion | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Milo Records (MR 003)

Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stanko is most probably country's best known jazz musician for some decades and prestigious ECM label in-house artist. Better known (especially outside of his homeland) from his ECM-sound recordings, in his early ears Stanko played quite different music. Started his career still at late 60s, Tomasz played with in Polish legend Komeda band, starting his career as leader in early 70s. "Purple Sun" is Stanko quintet third album recorded live in empty hall of Music School in Munich,Germany. All-Polish quartet is completed with German bassist Hans Hartmann here. Album contains four originals (twolong and two shorter pieces). Confusingly enough, "Purple Sun" is often classified in music media (partially Polish) as early example of Polish avant-garde jazz which it isn't. In reality bass-drums-trumpet-sax quartet with violinist Zbigniew Seifert on board plays high energy fusion strongly influenced by Davis' "Silent Way"…

Tomasz Stanko, Manfred Bründl, Michael Riessler - Suite Talk (1993)

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Tomasz Stanko, Manfred Bründl, Michael Riessler - Suite Talk (1993)

Tomasz Stanko, Manfred Brundl, Michael Riessler - Suite Talk (1993)
EAC Rip | APE (image+.cue+log) - 195 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 135 MB | Covers (3 MB) included
Genre: Contemporary Jazz, Free Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: ITM-Media (ITMP 970081)

This album captures the wonderful meeting between the Polish Jazz trumpet virtuoso / composer Tomasz Stanko and two German Jazz players: reedman Michael Riessler and bassist Manfred Bründl. The trio performs a set of eight original compositions in a wonderful atmosphere of mutual respect, conversation and above all listening to each other. Stanko's "sharp" trumpet and Riessler's "soft" bass clarinet harmonize beautifully, with Bründl's bass providing the pulsating rhythmic support. These players are all completely open to every musical possibility, that the music they make is a magnificent expression of freedom, without being chaotic or messy. After all this is Free Jazz and Improvised Music, but with an openness towards melody and self-imposed restriction toward form. Stanko is in top form, with renewed energies, which characterize his early 1990s output, revitalized and as always exceptionally creative.

Tomasz Stanko - Freelectronic In Montreux (1988) [Reissue 2008]

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Tomasz Stanko - Freelectronic In Montreux (1988) [Reissue 2008]

Tomasz Stanko - Freelectronic In Montreux (1988) [Reissue 2008]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 193 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 86 MB | Covers - 16 MB
Genre: Contemporary Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: New Edition (ne 3714)

This live recording at the Montreux Jazz Festival is the last of the glorious 1980s albums by the polish trumpet virtuoso / composer Tomasz Stanko and his Freelectronic ensemble, here consisting of keyboardists Janusz Skowron and Tadeusz Sudnik and bassist Witold Szczurek. Stanko is in top form and in a great mood, which is evident by the happy atmosphere captured herein. His trumpet soars to incredible heights and the brilliant improvisations chase one another. In retrospect this is a perfect moment captured for posterity, just before the ever-changing Stanko would embark on yet another musical journey with the onset of the 1990s. The 1980s Stanko's Jazz-Rock period was about to be abandoned and replaced by a return to the Jazz tradition and the new (again) Stanko, which would capture worldwide audiences with his ECM recordings…

Tomasz Stańko - A Farewell To Maria [OST] (1994)

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Tomasz Stańko - A Farewell To Maria [OST] (1994)

Tomasz Stanko - A Farewell To Maria [OST] (1994)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 248 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 98 MB | Covers - 20 MB
Genre: Contemporary Jazz, Soundtrack | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: GOWI Records (CDG 12)

This soundtrack to Filip Zylber's film made for Polish television is among composer and trumpeter Tomasz Stanko's greatest achievements; it puts him on a par - when it comes to film music at least - with his former boss, the late Krzysztof Komeda. Stanko composed for a sizable group here, his own quartet plus an additional five musicians and a string quintet. The set begins with the title theme as a leitmotif, with strings covering the backdrop and trumpet and soprano saxophones playing a noirish love theme, and then gives way after a few minutes to a very brief "Love Motive." This second section is merely an atmospheric foreshadowing of the only non-original piece of music in the work, a version of Gounod and Bach's hymn Ave Maria…

Tomasz Stańko - Tales For A Girl, 12, And A Shaky Chica (1991)

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Tomasz Stańko - Tales For A Girl, 12, And A Shaky Chica (1991)

Tomasz Stanko - Tales For A Girl, 12, And A Shaky Chica (1991)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 235 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 111 MB | Covers - 23 MB
Genre: Avant-garde Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Jam Phonographic (JAM CD 0891)

This is Polish trumpeter and composer Tomasz Stanko at his most confounding. Paired with Janisz Skowron on synthesizer, Stanko claims that these pieces are nothing more than short little musical stories - not fully realized compositions, but sketches. That's reasonable enough, but when certain pieces - such as the opener - are nine minutes in length, that becomes somewhat tenuous as an explanation. The 12 pieces that make up this "suite," if indeed it can be called that, are ephemeral roots and seedlings of ideas not yet realized and not meant to be. This, too, is acceptable as a notion, but why record them? Perhaps Brian Eno can get away with nonsense like this since he's not - by his own admission - a musician, but Stanko is an ambitious talent, a sophisticated composer whose control over an ensemble brings out the sublime in them.

The Andrzej Trzaskowski Quintet - Polish Jazz Vol. 4 (1965) {2005 Polskie Radio}

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The Andrzej Trzaskowski Quintet - Polish Jazz Vol. 4 (1965) {2005 Polskie Radio}

The Andrzej Trzaskowski Quintet - Polish Jazz Vol. 4 (1965) {2005 Polskie Radio}
EAC Rip | FLAC with CUE and LOG | scans | 275 mb
MP3 CBR 320 kbps | RAR | 110 mb
Genre: free jazz, hard bop

Polish Jazz Vol. 4 is a 1965 album by The Andrzej Trzaskowski Quintet, which featured Tomasz Stanko on trumpet and Janusz Muniak on saxophones. This was remastered and reissued in 2005 by Polskie Radio.

Tomasz Stanko Quartet - Matka Joanna (1995)

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Tomasz Stanko Quartet - Matka Joanna (1995)

Tomasz Stanko Quartet - Matka Joanna (1995)
EAC Rip | APE (image+.cue+log) - 339 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 167 MB | Covers (6 MB) included
Genre: Contemporary Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: ECM Records (ECM 1544)

With a nearly two decades separating Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stanko’s ECM debut, Balladyna, and Matka Joanna, his label follow-up as leader, it’s no wonder the two are so different. Taking Jerzy Kawalerowicz’s 1961 film Matka Joanna od Aniołów as its inspiration, the second draws from a palette of possession and temptation as grittily as its namesake’s B&W canvas.
Backed by pianist Bobo Stenson, bassist Anders Jormin, and drummer Tony Oxley (in a decidedly Christensenian mode), Stanko brings his pungent lyricism to bear across a swath of mountains and shadows that inhales cobwebs from a “Monastery In The Dark” and exhales the mummified sermons of its “Klostergeist”…

Tomasz Stańko - W Pałacu Prymasowskim (1983) [Reissue 2008]

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Tomasz Stańko - W Pałacu Prymasowskim (1983) [Reissue 2008]

Tomasz Stanko - W Palacu Prymasowskim (1983) [Reissue 2008]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 231 MB | Covers (19 MB) included
Genre: Avant-garde Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Anex (AN 219)

Polish jazz trumpeter honored for his long history as a major contributor to European jazz.
Jazz trumpeter Tomasz Stańko began his tenure as a major force in European free jazz in the early '60s with the formation of the quartet Jazz Darins in 1962 with Adam Makowicz. From 1963 to 1967 he played with Krzysztof Komeda in a group that revolutionized European jazz and made an impact across the Atlantic as well. Stańko also put in time with Andrzej Trzaskowski in the mid-'60s before leading his own quintet from 1968 to 1973. The Tomasz Stańko Quintet, which included Muniak and Zbigniew Seifert, garnered considerable critical acclaim, especially for their tribute to Komeda entitled Music for K…

Tomasz Stańko - Peyotl - Witkacy (1988) [Reissue 2004]

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Tomasz Stańko - Peyotl - Witkacy (1988) [Reissue 2004]

Tomasz Stanko - Peyotl - Witkacy (1988) [Reissue 2004]
EAC Rip | APE (image+.cue+log) - 502 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 205 MB | Covers (17 MB) included
Genre: Avant-garde Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Polonia Records (СD 037&038)

This is probably the most significant recording by Polish trumpeter virtuoso / composer Tomasz Stanko, surely at least among his Polish recordings before his later ECM period. Following Mile Davis, Stanko switched to Jazz-Rock Fusion (albeit a decade later) and his 1980s output with his Freelectronic ensemble is radically different from the Free Jazz he played in the 1970s. This double album consists of one studio recording and one live recording, both expressing Stanko's power as a performer and a composer to the max. The studio album, which was compiled over a period of two years, presents music composed by Stanko at the period when he was experimenting with hallucinogens and was deeply influenced by the writings of the Polish mystic / philosopher / avant-garde artist Witkacy (Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz), who was also an early experimenter with drugs…

Tomasz Stańko - A i J (1985) [Reissue 1997]

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Tomasz Stańko - A i J (1985) [Reissue 1997]

Tomasz Stanko - A i J (1985) [Reissue 1997]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 253 MB | Covers (12 MB) included
Genre: Avant-garde Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Polonia Records (CD 103)

This magnificent album by Polish trumpeter/composer Tomasz Stanko includes the rest of the music recorded at the same session, which produced the superb "Music 81" album. As with all great and prophetic Jazz Masters, Stanko's music was evolving constantly and by the time this session was recorded in 1982, he was ready to leave behind the avant-garde/Free Jazz/experimental music, which dominated his first period (late 1960s to late 1970s) and gradually move forward towards new things, which would include mostly Jazz-Rock Fusion and Jazz-Electronic experiments, which of course were all as advanced and adventurous as anything else he made earlier. That second period, which lasted roughly the whole decade of the 1980s, is well documented by the albums released during that time, each and every one of them indisputably a masterpiece in retrospect…