Tomasz Stańko has been played over 10 times on NTS, first on 28 February 2016. Tomasz Stańko's music has been featured on 17 episodes.

Tomasz Stańko (Rzeszów, Poland, 11 July 1942 - 29 July 2018) was a Polish jazz trumpeter and composer. Often recording for ECM Records, Stańko is strongly associated with free jazz and the avant-garde.

Stańko was born in Rzeszów, Poland, on 11th July 1942. He formed the quartet Jazz Darings in 1962 with Adam Makowicz (later replaced by Janusz Muniak); this was one of the first European groups to be influenced by Ornette Coleman.

He played with Krzysztof Komeda (1963-1967) and Andrzej Trzaskowski (mid-1960s),…