Desperado

Tomasz Stanko (1942-2018) was a Polish jazz trumpeter and composer. Rafal Ksiezyk is a Polish journalist and music critic. Halina Maria Boniszewska was born in the UK to Polish parents. She studied at the universities of London, Oxford and Warwick and has been an editor most of her life. She has translated (from Polish into English) Komeda: A Private Life in Jazz by Magdalena Grzebalkowska (Equinox, 2020). Tomasz Stanko (1942-2018) was a Polish jazz trumpeter and composer. Rafal Ksiezyk is a Polish journalist and music critic. Halina Maria Boniszewska was born in the UK to Polish parents. She studied at the universities of London, Oxford and Warwick and has been an editor most of her life. She has translated (from Polish into English) Komeda: A Private Life in Jazz by Magdalena Grzebalkowska (Equinox, 2020).

Chapter 1: Born Twice
Chapter 2: First Cigarette, First Bottle
Chapter 3: Komeda
Chapter 4: Poetry and Jazz
Chapter 5: Stańkomania
Chapter 6: A Proust-reading Boxer
Chapter 7: ‘I was Marlene Dietrich’
Chapter 8: Jazz in the Ruhr Area
Chapter 9: ‘The Full Catastrophe!’
Chapter 10: Green Face
Chapter 11: Bending the Note
Chapter 12: Whistling in the Temple
Chapter 13: A White Black Man in Communist Poland
Chapter 14: At Remont
Chapter 15: Purple Liquor
Chapter 16: ‘Hamulczyki, namulczyki, amulczyki’
Chapter 17: Short-cut
Chapter 18: Empathy for the Devil
Chapter 19: A Peruvian and a Minor Sixth
Chapter 20: View from the high-wire
Chapter 21: The Feminist
Chapter 22: A Prim, Bluish Man
Chapter 23: Maldoror’s War Song
Chapter 24: Thoughts on Simplicity
Chapter 25: Theme for Trumpet
Chapter 26: Children and the Vampire
Chapter 27: From Afar
Chapter 28: A Certain Kind of Vitality
A Chronology/Time Line of Tomasz Stańko’s Life and Works
Discography