I saw Tomasz Stanko a couple of nights ago in Ann Arbor - on a double bill with Tim Berne's Paraphrase. I had never heard Stanko's music before but everyone seemed to be pretty excited about his appearance, so what the hell, I got excited too.
This was part of the Edgefest series and Stanko played a much edgier set that he usually does. A guy in the Ann Arbor audience traveled to Toledo the previous night to see Stanko, and he said that the two sets were different, in that the Toledo set was more mannered and the Edgefest set was more raw. The previous night I had seen Myra Melford with Mark Dresser and Matt Wilson and she was (literally) hammering the keyboard and I thought that was going to be the most aggressive piano playing of the festival but Marcin Wasilewski topped everyone that week (Melford, Taborn, Lars Hollmer, and some professor from the school up the street). I bought Lontano in a fit of impulse buying at the show (one of many fits), but haven't listened to it yet. It was a good show, but I remember more about Wasilewski than the leader. Still worth every penny (all 2000 of them).