Tomasz Stanko: Chopin’s Letters. Improvisations
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Label: NIFC (National Institute Frederick Chopin)
Cat No: NIFCCD074
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Jazz
Release Date: 17th February 2023
Contents
Artists
Tomasz Stanko (trumpet)Marcin Wasilewski (piano)
Arild Andersen (double bass)
Olavi Louhivuori (drums)
Andrzej Chyra (reciter)
Artists
Tomasz Stanko (trumpet)Marcin Wasilewski (piano)
Arild Andersen (double bass)
Olavi Louhivuori (drums)
Andrzej Chyra (reciter)
About
This new release from The Chopin Institute presents the recording of this performance which took place as part of the Chopin and His Europe International Music Festival (2014).The history of improvising on Chopin themes began before the war, when swing pianists and bands turned to popular works of classical music that were suited to becoming standards. This continued throughout the second half of the 20th century through performers such as Andrzej Jagodziński, Leszek Możdżer, Krzysztof Herdzin and Leszek Kułakowski, who all recorded for Polonia Records.
There was already a clear difference in approaches to the composer's works. Jagodziński took care not to venture too far from the composer's notation. Leszek Możdżer, meanwhile, played jazzed- up Chopin solo, unlike Krzysztof Herdzin, who adopted a hardbop line at the head of his quintet and treated Chopin's themes like the standards of Horace Silver.
Despite Chopin's exceptional popularity among jazz musicians, there is no doubt that jazz and the music of Chopin remain worlds apart, both historically and stylistically. Supporters of Chopin arrangements invoke his own exceptional talent for improvisation, repeatedly emphasised in accounts from his day. They even claim that 'if he had lived, he would certainly have played jazz'.
The Polskie Nagrania label's Polish Jazz series was integral to the history of Polish and European jazz. It captured the work of legendary artists and documented the unique characteristics that constituted its genotype, which might be termed Polish romanticism. And it is to that strand, still distinctly present on the Polish music scene, that the Fryderyk Chopin Institute's new phonographic series - Polish Romantic Jazz - is devoted.
Tracks:
1. Teeny
2. Daada
3. Maldoror's War Song
4. The Dark Eyes of Martha Hirsh
5. Melancholia
6. Euforila
7. Ballada
8. New Y
9. Terminal 7
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