Marcin Wasilewski

Marcin Wasilewski is a Polish jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader who began his professional career as a jazzman in the quartet of his mentor, trumpeter and countryman Tomasz Stanko, while still in his teens. Possessed of a crystalline tone and airy, economic delivery, his range across the post-bop and vanguard traditions is exceptional, as displayed on the Stanko quartet recordings (especially Suspended Night) and his own Spark of Life. Wasilewski began playing piano at the age of seven, and studied classical music in high school, but the course of his professional caree...