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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.
Eddie Palmieri, Bela Bartók, Louis Armstrong
by David Brown
This week's program features the music of Latin music innovator, pianist and composer Eddie Palmieri who passed on August 6th. The show will continue with a 124th birthday tribute to Louis Armstrong with a set from The All Stars. The program also features music inspired by composer Bela Bartók as performed by pianist Lucian Ban & ...
Lucian Ban: jazz, musica popolare della Romania e l'alter ego Mat Maneri
by Neri Pollastri
Originario della Romania, sebbene da quasi trent'anni residente a New York, il pianista Lucian Ban alterna da tempo le proprie produzioni originali alla ricerca sulla musica della propria terra, quasi sempre assieme al violista Mat Maneri, con il quale forma da anni uno stretto sodalizio artistico. Dopo aver più volte parlato dei suoi album dedicati alla ...
Alex Harding, Lucian Ban: Blutopia
by Neri Pollastri
Il pianista Lucian Ban e il sassofonista baritono Alex Harding, assidui collaboratori dalla fine degli anni Novanta, riuniscono qui un quintetto di stelle per interpretare una musica assai diversificata di brano in brano e la cui sintesi è forse espressa da una citazione del filosofo Ibn Al-Arabi riportata nel libretto, la quale celebra il movimento quale ...
Lucian Ban: Following Bartók's Trail Through the Transylvanian Villages
by Dean Nardi
It is hard to re-invent where jazz can go. Players can eschew all the conventional methods they want, but a wheel is still a wheel. This is a reason why pianist Lucian Ban's efforts to bring to light the Hungarian composer, pianist and ethnomusicologist Bela Bartók's works as a field collector of folk music in 21st-century ...
Lucian Ban e Mat Maneri al PARC di Firenze
by Neri Pollastri
Lucian Ban e Mat Maneri P.A.R.C. Mixité 2025 -Toscana Produzione Musica Firenze 11 maggio 2025 Collaboratori di lungo corso nei reciproci progetti, il pianista rumeno Lucian Ban e il violista statunitense Mat Maneri sono approdati al P.A.R.C. di Firenze, terza data italiana del loro lungo tour europeo , per presentare ...
Lucian Ban, Mat Maneri: Transylvanian Dance
by Neri Pollastri
Prosegue l'esplorazione e la rielaborazione della musica della propria terra da parte del pianista rumeno Lucian Ban, accompagnato come sempre dal violista statunitense Mat Maneri, con il quale da un quindicennio collabora strettamente. Ancora una volta è la natia Transilvania a fare da punto di riferimento (il pianista è nato a Teaca, villaggio della ...
Lucian Ban and Mat Maneri: Transylvanian Dance
by Scott Gudell
Classical composer Bela Bartok was fascinated by folk melodies he heard throughout his native Transylvania at the close of the 19th century / beginning of the 20th century. Similar to when American musicologist Alan Lomax journeyed into the rural communities of the US (and other counties), Bartok journeyed deep into his native countryside to research and ...
Poor Is My Heart
Album: Transylvanian Dance
By Lucian Ban
Label: ECM Records
Released: 2024
Duration: 04:41
Dan Bilawsky's Best Jazz Albums of 2024
by Dan Bilawsky
Music that resonates with a listener is a rare gift for that receiver. And the artists who create it are to be admired for all that they produce and bestow. It's important to never lose sight of those truths and the power of aural art. I can't truly say that I believe that ...
