Tomasz Stańko has been played on NTS in shows including If Music, featured first on 28 February 2016. Songs played include V., Mintuu Maria and Gama.

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…