Video: Tomasz Stańko Quintet - Terminal 7 (Live Dark Eyes Tour 2009).mpg

Brooding Nordic beauty, with a whole lot of late night New York as well Trumpeter Tomasz Stanko has two homes. One is in Europe-specifically in Warsaw, Poland, where he was born-and the other New York. It should be no surprise, then, that Stanko's music rides a sleek rail that seems to connect a European and an American sensibility in jazz. On his latest ECM disc, Dark Eyes, Tomasz Stanko is fronting a decidedly European quintet, not to mention one with a Nordic slant. Pianist Alexi Tuomarila and drummer Olavi...