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Album review: An unlikely pairing
Romanian folk and Motor City blues combine for some stonking jazz. Review by CHRIS SEARLE
Lucian Ban and Alex Harding
Somethin’ Holy (CIMP 274),
Premonition (CIMP 274) and
Tuba Project (CIMP 337)
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A SINGULAR and unlikely pairing they are: a baritone saxophonist born in Detroit in 1967 when the sounds of Tamla Motown were at their apex, and a pianist from the Transylvanian village of Seaca in agricultural Romania, born in 1969, where he grew up listening to the folk music played by his family at weddings, birthdays and festivals.
Alex Harding started his musical life playing drums, then heard Grover Washington on the radio and switched to tenor saxophone at high school.
He gained a musical scholarship from the University of Massachusetts, then migrated to New York in 1993 and toured with a Haitian band before hugely influential stints with Muhal Richard Abrams, Lester Bowie, Oliver Lake and David Murray’s big band.
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