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Lucian Ban / Elevation

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.

Songs From Afar

By Lucian Ban / Elevation

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: Transylvanian Sorrow Song; Farewell; Travelin' With Ra; Solo For A Brother With Perfect Timing (For AI); Transylvanian Wedding Song I; Chakra, The Island; Spritual (For HJ); Transylvanian Wedding Song II; Southern Dawn; Teaca, A Song From Afar.

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 ...