Stanko, Tomasz * Balladyna (ECM Luminessence Series) [New LP] 12/18/12 UPC: 884388893023

UPC: 884388893023

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Stanko, Tomasz * Balladyna (ECM Luminessence Series) [New LP] 12/18/12 UPC: 884388893023An essential document of European jazz in the 1970s, and a recording that still sounds magnificent today, Balladyna exerted an enduring influence on successive generations of improvising musicians in Poland and Finland above all, though it also cast it's spell more widely. As Tomasz Stanko once said, "My international name was built on Balladyna." The quartet explores the seven originals on the album with a strong sense of rhythmic propulsion and