September Night EDNLP1245 Jacki Byard (piano)

Jacki Byard (piano)

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airy phrasing

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September Night EDNLP1245 Jacki Byard (piano)Recorded at Munichs Muffathalle twenty years ago, in September 2004, this previously unreleased concert recording of the Tomasz Stanko Quartet is a fascinating document, capturing a developmental chapter in the music between the song forms of the Suspended Night repertoire and the improvised areas that the Polish musicians would explore on Lontano. The Munich show was a highlight in a year in which the Stanko Quartet played a record number of gigs,