Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent

Notifications can be managed in browser preferences.

Jazz gig of the week: Tomasz Stanko + John Surman, Barbican, London EC2

 

Tim Cumming
Thursday 09 May 2013 21:54 BST
Comments
Cool, open-bodied ballads and blues: Tomasz Stanko
Cool, open-bodied ballads and blues: Tomasz Stanko

Opening a double-header of ECM giants is John Surman's beautiful Saltash Bells, winner of JazzFM's Album of the Year, where vaporous songs such as "Whistman's Wood" evoke the atmospheric wild scapes and woodlands of Dartmoor and the Tamar Valley.

Tomasz Stanko plays cool, open-bodied ballads and blues from Wislawa, which features the voice of the Polish poet and Nobel laureate Wisława Szymborska, who died in 2012.

The Miles-inspired trumpeter's New York Quartet features the hotly tipped Cuban pianist David Virelles, plus the crack bass-drums team of Thomas Morgan and Gerald Cleaver.

020 7638 8891; barbican.org.uk, Wednesday

Join our commenting forum

Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies

Comments

Thank you for registering

Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in