Denny Schreffler
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 Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2018 2:48 pm Post subject: Tomasz Stańko RIP |
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https://jazztimes.com/news/trumpeter-tomasz-stanko-dies-at-76/?utm_campaign=The+Incredible+Jazz+Guitar+of+Grant+Green&utm_source=Mailings&utm_medium=email
Tomasz Stańko was born July 11, 1942 in the city of Rzeszów in Nazi-occupied Poland, and grew up under the country’s Soviet communist hegemony. However, despite that chain of oppressive regimes, the youthful Stańko was able to discover jazz through the Voice of America broadcasts of jazz advocate Willis Conover. In 1958, while a student at the Chopin Conservatory of Music in Krakow, Stańko saw his first jazz concert, a Dave Brubeck Quartet performance sponsored by the U.S. State Department. “The message was freedom,” he told the New York Times. “Jazz was [a] synonym of Western culture, of freedom, of this different style of life.” |
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