Stanko, Tomasz * Balladyna (ECM Luminessence Series) [New LP] House Shower Scene

Shower Scene

classical and African influences intertwine seamlessly

" "What If" and GRAMMYr-award winning "With Arms Wide Open" (Best Rock Song)

The Curse of the Gifted

and urban life in contemporary New York

Stanko, Tomasz * Balladyna (ECM Luminessence Series) [New LP] House Shower SceneAn 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