The performance element of September Night - the accidentalism of a night that is long gone when something particular somehow happened - was created then. We only in the wider world know it now. Maybe you were even there in the Munich concert hall that night 20 years ago. Since then Stańko departed this mortal coil in 2018 and this is a gift from beyond the grave with some of the musicians who understood him best in the stirred by Soul of Things and Suspended Night period of his life out on the road - Europe's greatest living jazz pianist Marcin Wasilewski (reason for saying that, En Attendant) here with double bassist Sławomir Kurkiewicz and drummer Michał son of Henryk ''More Love'' Miśkiewicz. Certainly an instant classic - live album of the week and one of Manfred Eicher's best productions in a long while and of course his bar is set exceptionally high. What's here is up there in the Stańko pantheon with Leosia, the trumpeter's greatest album and all the more remarkable given that September Night was created live. Interestingly even Leosia's magical 'Euforila' seems reborn given Sławek's ability to seize the day. Sheer poeticism - in dreams - is what makes this album so miraculous above all else and surely the ultimate aspiration of any aesthete.
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