Tomasz Stanko : Lontano I

The change of direction on Lontano (2006), 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." Here, Wasilewski's piano opens the door and allows for the band to haltingly and carefully enter the tune, contributing economically until a groove eventually develops out of one of Stanko's balladic ideas. Ever so slowly the beat becomes circular and focused, the band vamps on it, gradually gaining in intensity until it threatens to fall apart. But it never does. Instead the band winds it way back down into silence. ~Thom Jurek

"What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great person is one who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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[feefeerider]

beautiful - where are the pictures from? (they look a bit like ECM covers)

[paganmaestro]

@feefeerider - from various internet sources, mainly from Poland.

[CavaliereNero1972]

I love this ---

[komardjieva]

very stylish!

[smilelikeUmeanit90]

tomasz - mistrz

[kenpea1]

i'm surprised nobody else has reviewed this amazing recording,i've had it since it was released and i play it time and time again.......nothing has been so well portrayed since the release of the first r.t.f. with airto.