Be It As I See It
by Gerald Cleaver and Uncle June, released on Fresh Sound New Talent in 2010.

Nic Jones wrote for All About Jazz:

"...Be It As I See It, his fourth as a leader in his own right—and in the company of his Uncle June ensemble, featuring reed man Tony Malaby and bassist Drew Gress—is as reflective of the times we live in as it is with a broader historical continuum.

...As the final track, "From A Life Of The Same Name" has the effect of closing things out both literally and metaphorically; clarifying the degree to which Cleaver and his cohorts have pulled off the considerable feat of reconciling a past with a present, without wallowing in tiresome, neo-conservative staples. The result is a program of highly individual music, beautifully realized."

https://www.allaboutjazz.com/be-it-as-i-see-it-gerald-cleaver-fresh-sound-new-talent-review-by-nic-jones/

https://freshsoundrecords1.bandcamp.com/album/uncle-june-be-it-as-i-see-it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xzdu92lS-M&list=RD1xzdu92lS-M&start_radio=1

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#TonyMalaby #CraigTaborn #MatManeri #migration

“[T]here is a thread that connects all folk music, whether Greek, Celtic, Japanese, or whatever. You can find these connections from so many different parts of the world, yet at the same time, their music sounds very, very different… As [Béla] Bartók noted, there’s a human connection between all these musics that you can detect and there’s a tangibility to that.“ - Mat Maneri

“I feel like I’m entering a lost world that can show me so many things. And when we approach them, a lot of our jazz experience and experiences with improvised music come into play. We bring everything to the table. Grooves. Non-grooves. Ideas. Emotions. All the people that influenced us and all of those things we took from them are thrown at these songs...” - Lucian Ban

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https://postgenre.org/ban-maneri-transylvanian-dance/