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September Night
Tomasz Stańko Quartet
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Presto Recording of the Week, 19th July 2024
September Night documents a live performance from 2004 that finds the legendary trumpet player (greatly missed since his passing in 2018) balancing his respect for the process of composition...
September Night
Tomasz Stańko Quartet
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Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 19th July 2024
September Night documents a live performance from 2004 that finds the legendary trumpet player (greatly missed since his passing in 2018) balancing his respect for the process of composition...
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Recorded at Munich's Muffathalle twenty years ago, in September 2004, this previously-unreleased concert recording of the Tomasz Stanko Quartet is a fascinating document, capturing a developmental chapter in the music between the song forms of the Suspended Night repertoire and the improvised areas that the Polish musicians would explore on Lontano. The Munich show was a highlight in a year in which the Stanko Quartet played a record number of gigs, with extensive tours of the US and Europe. The great trumpeter himself is at his charismatic best here, playing superbly, clearly inspired by the energetic support and communicative power of Marcin Wasilewski, Slawomir Kurkiewicz and Michal Miskiewicz, the dynamic young players for whom he had been a mentor. The live album was produced by Manfred Eicher.
Tomasz Stanko: trumpet
Marcin Wasilewski: piano
Slawomir Kurkiewicz: double bass
Michal Miskiewicz: drums
Contents and tracklist
Side 1
1. Hermento's Mood
2. Song For Sarah
3. Euforila
Side 2
1. Elegant Piece
2. Kaetano
3. Theatrical
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Tomasz Stańko Quartet - September Night
19th Jul 2024
This unreleased live recording from the late Polish trumpet master is a contemplative piece that captures the serene and reflective atmosphere of an autumn evening.
Awards and reviews
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Presto Recording of the Week19th July 2024
September 2024
September Night documents a live performance from 2004 that finds the legendary trumpet player (greatly missed since his passing in 2018) balancing his respect for the process of composition with free-ish blowing that makes for a dynamic set.
Stańko himself plays superbly, and sounds really strong and full-voiced, even while making those familiar wheedling smears, giddily aerated runs and urgent, stabbing punches that characterised his expressive lexicon of trumpet dialects.
Sheer poeticism - in dreams - is what makes this album so miraculous above all else […] surely the ultimate aspiration of any aesthete.
