Leosia is an album by Polish jazz trumpeter and composer Tomasz Stańko

Tomasz Stanko

Tomasz Stańko is a Polish trumpeter, composer and improviser. Often recording for ECM, Stańko is strongly associated with free jazz and the avant-garde....

 recorded in 1996 and released on the ECM label.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Michael G. Nastos awarded the album 3½ stars stating "As ECM recordings go, Leosia is one of the label's, and certainly trumpeter Tomasz Stanko's, definitive introspective and sedate musical statements. Not that in either instance these qualities have been in short supply, but here those themes of lush romanticism, thinly veiled mysticism, and pure ethereal thought could not be more concentrated or emphasized... Clearly a project moved by the death of a friend, it is a reminder of how life is fleeting, and words unspoken until it is too late can muster these feelings of abject regret".
The Penguin Guide to Jazz

The Penguin Guide to Jazz

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 selected this album as part of its suggested Core Collection and awarded it a "Crown".

Track listing

All compositions by Tomasz Stańko except as indicated

1. "Morning Heavy Song" - 6:45
2. "Die Weisheit Von le Comte Lautréamont" - 6:11
3. "A Farewell to Maria" - 7:42
4. "Brace" (Anders Jormin, Tony Oxley) - 4:10
5. "Trinity" (Jormin, Oxley, Bobo Stenson) - 5:05
6. "Forlorn Walk" (Jormin, Oxley, Stańko) - 2:12
7. "Hungry Howl" - 9:53
8. "No Bass Trio" (Oxley, Stańko, Stenson) - 6:02
9. "Euforila" - 5:06
10. "Leosia" - 9:22
    • Recorded at Rainbow Studio in Oslo, Norway in January 1996.

Personnel

• Tomasz Stańko
  Tomasz Stanko
  Tomasz Stańko is a Polish trumpeter, composer and improviser. Often recording for ECM, Stańko is strongly associated with free jazz and the avant-garde....
  
   - trumpet
  Trumpet
  The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...
  
  
• Bobo Stenson
  Bobo Stenson
  Bo Gustav Stenson is a Swedish jazz pianist. Stenson was noted as early as 1963, when he stepped up from the local scene in Västerås to start playing frequently in Stockholm, where he accompanied a long line of visiting American players including Sonny Rollins, Stan Getz and Gary Burton...
  
   - piano
  Piano
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• Anders Jormin
  Anders Jormin
  Anders Bertil Michael Jormin, born September 7, 1957 in Jönköping, is a Swedish bassist and composer.Jormin established a musical partnership with Bobo Stenson in the mid-1980s which led to international recognition playing with Charles Lloyd, in the early 1990s...
  
   - bass
  Double bass
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• Tony Oxley
  Tony Oxley
  Tony Oxley is an English free-jazz drummer and one of the founders of Incus Records.-Biography:Tony Oxley was born in Sheffield, England. A self-taught pianist by age eight, he first began playing the drums at seventeen. While in the Black Watch military band from 1957 to 1960 he studied music...
  
   - drums
  Drum kit
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