April 24, 2024
MAY 2024 → The new recording, BLUTOPIA showcases the leaders’ attuned rapport developed over decades of collaborations into an album that transcends the expectations of the jazz genre. The music on Blutopia is mysterious yet rooted, with legendary Bob Stewart tuba speaking of the whole history of jazz, yet Ban’s use of the Fender Rhodes and Mat Maneri’s electronic effects giving a contemporary,…
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November 5, 2024
September 2024 2023 → On their second ECM duo album Romanian pianist Lucian Ban and US violist Mat Maneri find fresh inspiration as they follow the trail of Béla Bartók, revisiting the folk music that spurred the imagination of the great Hungarian composer who, in the early 20th century, collected and transcribed numerous pieces from…
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September 22, 2025
September 2025 → For this double release, long time collaborators pianist Lucian Ban and violist Mat Maneri alongside legendary woodwind master JOHN SURMAN further explore the folk music of Transylvania collected by Béla Bartók more than a hundred years ago. Taking the music on the road, the trio has deepened the spirit of their music…
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September 12, 2026
September 2026 → Sunnyside Records presents Rush, the third album by Lucian Ban & ELEVATION and the pianist’s twelfth release for the label. Marking nearly two decades of the ensemble’s evolution, the quartet — featuring saxophonist Abraham Burton, bassist John Hébert, and drummer Eric McPherson — returns following Songs from Afar, hailed as Downbeat’s Best…
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