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Tomasz Stanko (1942-2018) was a Polish jazz trumpeter and composer. Rafal Ksiezyk is a Polish journalist and music critic. Halina Maria Boniszewska was born in the UK to Polish parents. She studied at the universities of London, Oxford and Warwick and has been an editor most of her life. She has translated (from Polish into English) Komeda: A Private Life in Jazz by Magdalena Grzebalkowska (Equinox, 2020). Tomasz Stanko (1942-2018) was a Polish jazz trumpeter and composer. Rafal Ksiezyk is a Polish journalist and music critic. Halina Maria Boniszewska was born in the UK to Polish parents. She studied at the universities of London, Oxford and Warwick and has been an editor most of her life. She has translated (from Polish into English) Komeda: A Private Life in Jazz by Magdalena Grzebalkowska (Equinox, 2020).

• Chapter 1: Born TwiceChapter 2: First Cigarette, First BottleChapter 3: KomedaChapter 4: Poetry and JazzChapter 5: StańkomaniaChapter 6: A Proust-reading BoxerChapter 7: ‘I was Marlene Dietrich’Chapter 8: Jazz in the Ruhr AreaChapter 9: ‘The Full Catastrophe!’Chapter 10: Green FaceChapter 11: Bending the NoteChapter 12: Whistling in the TempleChapter 13: A White Black Man in Communist PolandChapter 14: At RemontChapter 15: Purple LiquorChapter 16: ‘Hamulczyki, namulczyki, amulczyki’ Chapter 17: Short-cutChapter 18: Empathy for the DevilChapter 19: A Peruvian and a Minor SixthChapter 20: View from the high-wireChapter 21: The FeministChapter 22: A Prim, Bluish ManChapter 23: Maldoror’s War SongChapter 24: Thoughts on SimplicityChapter 25: Theme for TrumpetChapter 26: Children and the VampireChapter 27: From AfarChapter 28: A Certain Kind of VitalityA Chronology/Time Line of Tomasz Stańko’s Life and WorksDiscography