Chamber Jazz@Universitatea Transilvania: Elevation Quartet & Gavril Țărmure | RUSH

Ten years after the inauguration of the Chamber Jazz@Universitatea Transilvania series, the New York quartet Elevation returns, together with special guest Gavril Țărmure, to launch the album RUSH at the Multicultural Centre, released on the American label Sunnyside Records. The concert takes place on 17 November 2026 at 19:00, on the ground floor of the UTBv Rectorate building, at Bd. Eroilor 29, Brașov. On stage will be Lucian Ban on piano, Abraham Burton on tenor saxophone, John Hébert on double bass, Nasheet Waits on drums and Gavril Țărmure on vocals.

Admission is by prior booking only, through the form at forms.gle/qfbMG71dsFdMJZsZ7

The Elevation quartet was founded in New York in 2006 by the pianist and composer Lucian Ban and the saxophonist Abraham Burton. RUSH is the quartet's third album and Lucian Ban's twelfth album released on Sunnyside Records. The original compositions are dedicated to Abdullah Ibrahim, Andrew Hill, Larry Willis and Billy Strayhorn, and the album closes with an old Transylvanian song, „Grangure Pană Gălbană”, in which Gavril Țărmure's voice intertwines with the sound of the quartet. The album received four and a half stars from Jazz Trail and four stars from Marlbank, and AllMusic describes it as 21st-century jazz that embraces tradition alongside rhythmic and harmonic invention.

Details also at www.facebook.com/events/1826898878214177