Stanko, Tomasz * Balladyna (ECM Luminessence Series) [New LP] 12/18/12 a Bay Area native

a Bay Area native

Blues For Mud

the contemplative stretches — like the spiraling guitar on “All Kindz” and “John Bird Song” or the woozy synth and chatter of “What a Rip” — give Sd-3 extra depth and reveal a tinge of vulnerability for Loukeman

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Ode to Minnesota

Stanko, Tomasz * Balladyna (ECM Luminessence Series) [New LP] 12/18/12 a Bay Area nativeAn 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