“On this Tuesday night, the club was filled, and one could hear much accented English mixing with the smell of American barbecue. The band present was the one on the recording: Newsome, Ban, baritone saxophonist Alex Harding (a long-time partner of Ban’s, see The Tuba Project, (CIMP, 2006)), guitarist Sorin Romanescu, bassist Arthur Balogh and drummer Willard Dyson. ….The musicological fusion of Romanian folk music and American jazz worked extremely well. There were a number of very heavy grooves set up that had the house swaying. Odd-meter dances were kept lively and pulsating by the close interaction of the bass of the Romanian Balogh and the drums of the American Dyson, who was having some serious fun. Romanian scales set the harmonic context for much of the music, which, when juxtaposed with the jazz soloing aesthetic, produced music that belonged in neither world exclusively. ….The original four-movement “Romanian-American Jazz Suite” ended the set. Moving from the simpler hymns and carols of “Prelude” and “Colinda” through the pulsating rhythms of “Bucharest Part Two,” the music brought everyone, regardless of their cultural heritage, together as one