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Lucian Ban

LUCIAN BAN was raised in a small village in northwest Transylvania, in “the region where Bartok did his most extensive research and collecting of folk songs" and grew up listening to both traditional and classical music. He studied composition at the Bucharest Music Academy while simultaneously leading his own jazz groups, and notes that his approach to improvisation has been influenced by “the profound musical contributions of Romanian modern classical composers like Aurel Stroe, Anatol Vieru and of course Enesco". Desire to get closer to the source of jazz brought him to the US, and since moving from Romania to New York in 1999 has been leading several projects creating music that reinvents the jazz idiom and collaborating with some of today’s most celebrated jazz musicians. His compositions are performed and recorded by several ensembles and he has released 19 albums under his name for labels such as ECM, Sunnyside, Clean Feed, CIMP, Jazzaway, all the while maintaining a worldwide touring schedule.

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Lucian Ban & Alex Harding: Tuba Project

Read "Tuba Project" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Che il jazz sia una musica internazionale è ormai un dato di fatto ed un'affermazione quasi scontata, eppure ci sono ancora dei musicisti che, spostatasi dalla periferia del mondo a New York, riescono a dare nuovi impulsi. Il pianista transilvano Lucian Ban da alcuni anni collabora con il sassofonista baritono Alex Harding. Le sue composizioni ed ...

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Lucian Ban & Alex Harding: Tuba Project

Read "Tuba Project" reviewed by Derek Taylor


Several years have elapsed since Lucian Ban and Alex Harding's last CIMP collaboration, but their artistic rapport has only deepened in the interim. Their latest project carries a signifier that stresses the novelty of the instrumentation. The duo dispenses with string bass completely. In its stead, Bob Stewarts' bulbous, bell-shaped horn sits as co-resident of the ...

Album

Somethin' Holy

Label: CIMP Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Invocation for Wilber; Drifting; Somethin' Holy; Resonance; Time for Trane; Night on Earth; African Blutopia; African Flower.

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Lucian Ban & Alex Harding: Somethin' Holy

Read "Somethin' Holy" reviewed by Derek Taylor


As band mates and musical brothers Lucian Ban and Alex Harding share the kind of synergy essential to a successful duet session. Both men evince highly emotive playing styles--and coupled with astute expertise in the language of jazz, it's a pairing guaranteed to pay dividends. Harding is a regular member of Ban's working group, which operates ...


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