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Eduard Jak Neumann

EJN became an avid jazz fan at the age of 13 and started playing the tenor sax at 16. He went to study sociology in Timisoara and left the university to become a full time musician in 1997. He recorded with own freefunk band Blazzaj, Bucharest-based Jazz Unit, Hari Tavitian's Orient Express and David Yengibarian Octet. Between 2001-2007 he relocated to Great Britain where he started to produce his own electronic ethnic avantgarde called Electric Vulcans.

Awards

1995, Jazz Napocensis, Special Prize of the Jury alongside Golem Qt 2000, Jazz Album of the Year awarded by Romanian Composers’ Union 2000, Grand Prize at the Bucharest Humoror Theatre Festival with “Azi ma Ubu” after Alfred Jarry 2008, Sibiu Jazz Festival, Grand Prize alongside Mitrofan’s Ponton Unit

Gear

Selmer 2nd series ts and ss, Selmer serie 10 full boehm cl


Tags

Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Curtainbust

Soft Records Romania
2010

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