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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
(dpa) The jazz trumpet player Tomasz Stanko died Sunday night after a message from his family. The last 76-year-old was one of the most prominent representatives of his country's jazz avant-garde since the 1960s. "He was a world-renowned jazz trumpeter, a composer, a conductor of orchestra and a mentor for many young musicians, "recalled the PSJ in an obituary on his Facebook page in 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."
In the spring, performances of Stanko and his group were canceled for Germany. The organizers of the "XJazz" festival in Berlin wrote that the musician is being treated, but hopes for a speedy recovery.
The ECM jazz label ECM, in which Stanko has released numerous albums, mentions on his website the US Trumpeter Miles Davis and Chet Baker as early influences. Later, avant-garde free-jazz artists 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 album "Balladyna" (1975) was "a legend on both sides of the Atlantic", the record company. More recently, in the mid-1970s, he had released the highly acclaimed "December Avenue" the year before with the Tomasz Stanko New York Quartet – for the British "Guardian" jazz specialist a "tone that causes the goosebumps".
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