Lontano (album)

Lontano
Studio album by
the Tomasz Stańko Quartet
Released2006
RecordedNovember 2005
StudioStudios la Buissonne
Pernes-les-Fontaines
GenreJazz
Length76:52
LabelECM
ECM 1980
ProducerManfred Eicher
Tomasz Stańko chronology
Suspended Night
(2003) 		Lontano
(2006) 		Dark Eyes
(2009)

Lontano is an album by the Tomasz Stańko Quartet, recorded in November 2005 and released on ECM the following year.[1] The quartet features rhythm section Marcin Wasilewski, Slawomir Kurkiewicz and Michal Miskiewicz.

Reception

The AllMusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars stating "Lontano showcases a band confident enough after playing for five years to find real space for free improvisation... Lontano is at once the distillation of 40 years of European vanguard jazz history, and at once the key in the door of the lock where it enters the world not as a music categorized by its instrumentation or personnel, but as music itself; where harmonics, space, and the improvisational language expressed in it transcends genre and classification. This band is simply astonishing, and Lontano is their most adventurous and cohesive recording yet."[2]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Tomasz Stańko except as indicated
  1. "Lontano I" (Tomasz Stańko, Marcin Wasilewski, Slawomir Kurkiewicz, Michal Miskiewicz) – 12:53
  2. "Cyrhla" – 7:07
  3. "Song for Ania" – 7:44
  4. "Kattorna" (Krzysztof Komeda) – 6:32
  5. "Lontano II" (Stańko, Wasilewski, Kurkiewicz, Miskiewicz) – 15:04
  6. "Sweet Thing" – 6:50
  7. "Trista" – 4:44
  8. "Lontano III" (Stańko, Wasilewski, Kurkiewicz, Miskiewicz) – 12:03
  9. "Tale" – 3:55

Personnel

Tomasz Stańko Quartet

References

  1. ^ ECM discography accessed November 8, 2011
  2. ^ a b Jurek, T. Allmusic Review accessed November 8, 2011
  3. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1337. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.