Jazz Articles about Lucian Ban / Elevation

Lucian Ban: Songs From Afar

by Budd Kopman
March 11, 2016

It is a truism that musical art, in whatever genre, entails much more than just the technical, either physical or theoretical. True art also has that ineffable something, which could be described as the soul of the performer touching the soul of the listener. The performer brings everything (including, of course, the extra-musical) he or she has experienced to that point and channels it through the music, hopefully creating one of those magical moments when time and space collapses and ...