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Tomasz Stanko: Balladyna (Vinyl LP) | ECM 7598116

Tomasz Stanko: Balladyna (Vinyl LP)

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Label: ECM

Cat No: 7598116

Barcode: 0602475981169

Format: LP

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Jazz

Release Date: 15th May 2026

Contents

Artists

Tomasz Stanko (trumpet)
Tomasz Szukalski (soprano saxophone / tenor saxophone)
Dave Holland (double bass)
Edward Vesala (drums)

Works

Stanko, Tomasz

Balladyna
Duet
First Song
Last Song
Nenaliina
Num
Tale

Artists

Tomasz Stanko (trumpet)
Tomasz Szukalski (soprano saxophone / tenor saxophone)
Dave Holland (double bass)
Edward Vesala (drums)

About

An 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 its spell more widely. As Tomasz Stańko once said, "My international name was built on Balladyna."

On the record, the Polish trumpeter is joined by his close collaborator Edward Vesala on drums ("We were like brothers," Stańko later said), saxophonist Tomasz Szukalski and master bassist Dave Holland, brought to the session by Manfred Eicher. Even though it was only the trumpeter's debut for the label, it presented Stańko's unique melodic voice in an already fleshed-out framework, with his earlier freer influences still looming in the band's explosive undercurrent. The quartet explores the seven originals on the album with a strong sense of rhythmic propulsion and melodic curiosity throughout.

Recorded at Tonstudio Bauer in 1975, Balladyna was produced by Manfred Eicher.

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