NYC: TOMASZ STANKO NEW YORK QUARTET AT BIRDLAND
CELEBRATING MARCH IS CABARET MONTH
CELEBRATING MARCH IS CABARET MONTH
The Tomasz Stanko New York Quartet - Tomasz Stanko (trumpet), David Virelles (piano), Thomas Morgan (bass), Gerald Cleaver (drums) - will appear at BIRDLAND (315 West 44th Street, NYC - 212-581-3080) Thursday through Saturday, March 28th through 30th with shows at 8:30 & 11:00 pm with "Wislawa" ECM Records CD Release Celebration. Like his early hero Miles Davis, Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stanko has a gift for shaping great bands, and this one, formed in the world's jazz capital, overflows with promise. The bass and drums team of Thomas Morgan and Gerald Cleaver is one of the most sensitive in contemporary improvising, and Cuban-born pianist David Virelles, inspired by ritual music as well as by Thelonious Monk and Andrew Hill, seems particularly well-attuned to the brooding darkness and sophisticated dread of Stanko's free ballads. In the uptempo pieces all four players seem to enter new territory, with very exciting results. The double album program of new Stanko compositions is inspired also by the poetry of Wislawa Symborska, the Polish poet, essayist and Nobel Laureate, who died in 2012. As Stanko writes in the CD booklet, "Reading Wislawa Szymborska's words gave me many ideas and insights. Meeting her and interacting with her poetry also gave impetus to this music, which I would like to dedicate, respectfully, to her memory." There is a $30-$40 cover plus a $10 food/drink minimum.
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