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Polish jazz trumpet player Tomasz Stanko is dead, his family and the Polish jazz federation PSJ announced on Sunday. Stanko was 76 years old. He was one of the most prominent representatives of the avant-garde of jazz in his country since the 1960s.
"He was a world-famous jazz trumpet player, composer, conductor." orchestra and mentor of many young musicians ". On the side of Stanko. He died "after a serious illness in Warsaw". Polish music journalist Piotr Baron wrote on Twitter that Stanko was "one of the founding fathers of Polish jazz."
The Munich ECM jazz label, on which Stanko has published numerous albums, mentions American trumpet players Miles Davis and Chet on his Baker website as the first influences. Later, free-jazz avant-gardists such as Ornette Coleman and Don Cherry were added
. In the early 1970s, he appeared in the limelight in European festivals with his Quintet Tomasz Stanko. His first ECM album "Balladyna" (1975) was "on both sides of the Atlantic become a legend", the record company. More recently, in the mid-1970s, he released the highly acclaimed "December Avenue" the previous year with the Tomasz Stanko Quartet of New York – for the jazz expert of the British "Guardian" a "Your goosebumps". (APA / dpa)
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