Lucian Ban

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Lucian Ban

Lucian Ban (* 1969 in Cluj-Napoca ) is a Romanian jazz pianist and composer .

Live and act

Ban grew up in Teaca ( Bistrița-Năsăud district ). When he was seven years old, his family moved to Cluj , where he received a classical music education (piano and composition). From 1992 to 1995 he studied composition at the Bucharest Music Academy ; In 1995 he founded the Jazz Unit , for which he wrote compositions and with which he released two albums in Romania. In 1999 he moved to New York City to continue his studies at The New School . For CIMP he recorded his debut album Somethin 'Holy in 2002 with saxophonist Alex Harding ; In 2004 he founded the Lumination Ensemble with Harding . In the following years he worked a. a. with JD Allen III , Reggie Nicholson , Art Baron , Barry Altschul , Mark Helias , Nasheet Waits , Curtis Fowlkes , Pheeroan akLaff , Cristian Soleanu and Abraham Burton . In 2008 he had a joint sextet with Sam Newsome , with whom he recorded the album The Romanian-American Jazz Suite (Discovery). With his octet he performed a program of works by the Romanian composer George Enescu at the Enescu Festival 2009 in Bucharest; concerts in Chicago, New York and London followed. In Sannicolau Mare , Ban met Maneri and John Surman in 2018 at the invitation of the local Bartók Society; With “Transylvanian Folksongs” they presented for the first time a program that took the folk music themes collected by Béla Bartók as the starting point for further improvisations.

Awards

His album From Now On won 1999 in Romania the award "Best Jazz Album of the Year". In 2005 and 2006, Ban was nominated by the Hans Koller Foundation in the category “best European jazz musician”.

Discographic notes

  • Jazz Unit - Changes - Live at Green Hours (Green Records, 1998)
  • Lucian Ban / Alex Harding Premonition (2003) with Alex Harding, Chris Dahlgren , Damion Reid
  • Lucian Ban / Alex Harding Tuba Project (CIMP, 2006) with Bob Stewart
  • Lucian Ban & Asymmetry Featuring Jorge Sylvester, Brad Jones & Derrek Phillips - Playground (Jazzaway, 2005)
  • Silent Strike feat. Lucian Ban & Alex Harding - 3 AM (La Strada Music, 2008)
  • Lucian Ban & John Hébert - Enesco Re-Imagined (Sunnyside, 2010) with Gerald Cleaver , Badal Roy , Tony Malaby , Ralph Alessi , Mat Maneri , Albrecht Maurer
  • Lucian Ban / Mat Maneri Transylvanian Concert , (ECM, 2013)
  • Albrecht Maurer, Lucian Ban, Mat Maneri: Fantasm (The Loft Sessions) (Nemu Records, 2014)
  • Lucian Ban & Elevation: Songs from Afar (Sunnyside, 2016, with Abraham Burton, John Hébert, Eric McPherson and Mat Maneri, Gavril Tarmure)
  • Lucian Ban, Alex Simu : Free Fall (Sunnyside, 2019)
  • Lucian Ban, John Surman, Mat Maneri: Transylvanian Folksongs (Sunnyside, 2020)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Portrait in All About Jazz (2008)
  2. ^ Karl Lippegaus : Transsylvanian Folk Songs: Bartók's peasant music becomes jazz. In: Deutschlandfunk . July 28, 2020, accessed August 9, 2020 .
  3. ↑ corneliastreetcafe.com
personal data
SURNAME Ban, Lucian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Cluj-Napoca