Desperado

An Autobiography

by Tomasz Stanko and translated by Halina Maria Boniszewska

Book cover: Desperado

Extent: 320 pages

Publisher: Equinox Publishing

Subjects: Music & Performing Arts, Slavic Studies

Series: Popular Music History

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(July 2022)

ISBN: 9781800502222

9.17 x 12.56 inches

Price: $45.00

In stock

Tomasz Stanko is arguably the greatest jazz musician Poland has ever produced. His career spanned almost 60 years until his death in 2018. A visionary trumpeter and composer, his impact on jazz internationally was profound, proving that jazz was not exclusively an American art form but truly world-wide.


Tomasz Stanko is arguably the greatest jazz musician Poland has ever produced. His career spanned almost 60 years until his death in 2018. A visionary trumpeter and composer, a protege of Krzysztof Komeda and a colleague of musicians from Poland, Sweden, Norway, Britain, Cuba and the USA, his impact on jazz internationally was profound, proving that jazz was not exclusively an American art form but truly world-wide. In 2014 he was awarded the Polytika Passport in Poland, the Prix de musician European in Paris and the Preis der deutschen schallplattenkritik. The book is a no-holds-barred extended interview with broadcaster Rafal Ksiezyk originally published in Polish by Wydawnictwo Literackie.

  • By (author) Tomasz Stanko
  • Translated by Halina Maria Boniszewska