Stanko himself turned out to be a soft-spoken and very gentle man. His trumpet playing reflects this, but only to a certain extent. There is also the other Stanko, the man who was one of the leading horn players of the European free jazz movement during the late 60's and early 70's. Most of his early records were only released in Poland, and I as far as I know they haven't been officially released, at least not outside Poland. My favourite Stanko moments are from later dates. Matka Joanna from 1994 is a fine album and Leosia, released in 2000 is even better. The best album by Tomasz Stanko if you ask me. There is some incredibly dynamic and lyrical free playing on Leosia by Stanko, Bobo Stenson, Anders Jormin and master drummer Tony Oxley. If you are scared of free improvisation, but still interested in it, get this album!
The following day, our new administrative producer quit. Not good. We need a new administrative producer at once, since our previous producer, LL, decided to move on to a year-long project which she will be leading. I wish her the very best. I am sure she will do a great job. But a part of me wishes that she would have stayed, because she did a good job att Jazz i Malmo too. Who will I work with now? And when will we get a new administrative producer?
I met the very nice booking agent Robert Palmen for a couple of beers (and a pub quiz) on Wednesday evening. Another of the really nice guys! The idea is that he will book some gigs for IB later this year. Whatever comes out of this, it was great meeting this guy. We were lousy at the pub quiz though. At least the beer was good!
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Miles Davis has recorded lots of music. A great deal of it is amazing, some of the stuff is truly classic material. But the song "The Man with the Horn" is not. In fact, it is awful. It doesn't go anywhere, there are no interesting improvisations, the vocals are cheezier than Wallace & Gromit's idea of heaven.
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