Tomasz Stanko: Soul of Things I
Musicians:
Tomasz Stanko (trumpet), Marcin Wasilewski (piano), Slawomir Kurkiewicz (bass), Michal Miskiewicz (drums).
Recorded: Oslo, August 2001
Rating: 95/100 (learn more)
What do you play after Kind of Blue? It seems to consume the space before and after it, diminishing anything that follows. Here is one answer. Stanko had been mentoring a talented trio of teenagers through the 1990s and when they became his regular working group in 2000 they so perfectly complimented his musical vision that the sublime Soul of Things represents the trumpeter’s most complete artistic statement to date. Stanko says he’s played the same tune all his life, but this album’s set of thirteen variations condense a lifetime’s deeply felt emotion into a compelling series of vignettes that haunt the memory long after the music has finished.
Reviewer: Stuart Nicholson
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