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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... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2024, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 12th Jul 2024
Catalogue No: 6520458
Label: ECM

Presto Recording of the Week

19th July 2024

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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Recording of the Week, Tomasz Stańko Quartet - September Night

19th July 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.

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

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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.

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