Stanko, Tomasz * Balladyna (ECM Luminessence Series) [New LP] 12/18/12 and keys delivered with a

and keys delivered with a fire and fury that demands your close attention

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Stanko, Tomasz * Balladyna (ECM Luminessence Series) [New LP] 12/18/12 and keys delivered with aAn 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