Lucian Ban/John Hebert: Enescu Re-Imagined – review

(Sunnyside)Lucian Ban is a classically trained Romanian jazz pianist and composer who in recent years has become a key figure on New York's downtown jazz scene. This album is devoted to the work of Romanian classical genius George Enescu, the violin virtuoso who taught Yehudi Menuhin, and whose compositions looked westward to the regular classical repertoire and eastward  to oriental music, while being rooted in his homeland's folk traditions. The adventurous intentions of Ban and his bassist a...

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