Leosia (album)
{{Infobox album
| name = Leosia
| type = Album
| artist = Tomasz Stańko
| cover = Leosia (album).jpg
| alt =
| released = 1997
| recorded = January 1996
| venue =
| studio = Rainbow Studio
Oslo, Norway
| genre = Jazz
| length = 62:28
| label = ECM
ECM 1603
| producer = Manfred Eicher
| chronology = Tomasz Stańko
| prev_title = Roberto Zucco
| prev_year = 1995
| next_title = Litania – Music of Krzysztof Komeda
| next_year = 1997
}}
Leosia is an album by Polish jazz trumpeter and composer Tomasz Stańko recorded in January 1996 and released on ECM the following year. The quartet features rhythm section Bobo Stenson, Anders Jormin and Tony Oxley.[http://www.ecmrecords.com/Catalogue/ECM/1600/1603.php ECM discography] accessed October 14, 2011
Reception
The AllMusic review by Michael G. Nastos awarded the album 3½ stars stating "As ECM recordings go, Leosia is one of the label's, and certainly trumpeter Tomasz Stanko's, definitive introspective and sedate musical statements. Not that in either instance these qualities have been in short supply, but here those themes of lush romanticism, thinly veiled mysticism, and pure ethereal thought could not be more concentrated or emphasized... Clearly a project moved by the death of a friend, it is a reminder of how life is fleeting, and words unspoken until it is too late can muster these feelings of abject regret."Nastos, M. G. [http://www.allmusic.com/album/leosia-r480457/review Allmusic Review] accessed October 14, 2011
The Penguin Guide to Jazz selected this album as part of its suggested Core Collection and awarded it a "Crown."{{cite book|last = Cook|first = Richard|author-link = Richard Cook (journalist)|author2=Brian Morton |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings|origyear = 1992|edition = 9th|series = The Penguin Guide to Jazz|year = 2008|publisher = Penguin|location = New York|isbn = 978-0-14-103401-0|pages = 1336|chapter = Tomasz Stanko}}
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = Penguin Guide to Jazz
| rev1Score = {{rating|4|4}} + "Crown"
| rev2 = Allmusic
Track listing
:All compositions by Tomasz Stańko except as indicated.
- "Morning Heavy Song" – 6:45
- "Die Weisheit von le Comte Lautréamont" – 6:11
- "A Farewell to Maria" – 7:42
- "Brace" (Anders Jormin, Tony Oxley) – 4:10
- "Trinity" (Jormin, Oxley, Bobo Stenson) – 5:05
- "Forlorn Walk" (Jormin, Oxley, Stańko) – 2:12
- "Hungry Howl" – 9:53
- "No Bass Trio" (Oxley, Stańko, Stenson) – 6:02
- "Euforila" – 5:06
- "Leosia" – 9:22
Personnel
- Tomasz Stańko – trumpet
- Bobo Stenson – piano
- Anders Jormin – bass
- Tony Oxley – drums
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