''Lontano'' is an album by Polish jazz trumpeter and composer

Tomasz Stańko Tomasz Ludwik Stańko (11 July 1942 – 29 July 2018) was a Polish trumpeter and composer. Stańko was associated with free jazz and the avant-garde. In 1962, Tomasz Stańko formed his first band, the Jazz Darings, with saxophonist Janusz Munia ...

recorded in 2005 and released on the ECM label.ECM discography
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Reception

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review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars stating "''Lontano'' showcases a band confident enough after playing for five years to find real space for free improvisation... ''Lontano'' is at once the distillation of 40 years of European vanguard jazz history, and at once the key in the door of the lock where it enters the world not as a music categorized by its instrumentation or personnel, but as music itself; where harmonics, space, and the improvisational language expressed in it transcends genre and classification. This band is simply astonishing, and ''Lontano'' is their most adventurous and cohesive recording yet".Jurek, T
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Track listing

:''All compositions by Tomasz Stańko except as indicated'' # "Lontano I" (Tomasz Stańko, Marcin Wasilewski, Slawomir Kurkiewicz, Michal Miskiewicz) - 12:53 # "Cyrhla" - 7:07 # "Song for Ania" - 7:44 # "Kattorna" (

Krzysztof Komeda Krzysztof Trzciński (27 April 1931 – 23 April 1969), known professionally as Krzysztof Komeda, was a Polish film music composer and jazz pianist. Perhaps best known for his work in film scores, Komeda wrote the scores for Roman Polanski’s f ...

) - 6:32 # "Lontano II" (Stańko, Wasilewski, Kurkiewicz, Miskiewicz) - 15:04 # "Sweet Thing" - 6:50 # "Trista" - 4:44 # "Lontano III" (Stańko, Wasilewski, Kurkiewicz, Miskiewicz) - 12:03 # "Tale" - 3:55

Personnel

trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitched one octave below the standard ...

Marcin Wasilewski Marcin Ryszard Wasilewski (; born 9 June 1980) is a Polish former professional footballer who played as a centre back. He is best known for winning Premier League with Leicester City FC and getting injured after a horrible challenge by Axel Wits ...

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

*Slawomir Kurkiewicz - bass *Michal Miskiewicz -

drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...

References

{{Authority control ECM Records albums Tomasz Stańko albums 2006 albums Albums produced by Manfred Eicher