biography

Mircea Stan (b. 1943) was one of the founding members of UMO Jazz Orchestra in 1975 but he had founded his own band already a few years before, right after moving to Finland from Romania. The smaller ensembles have been an important basic unit for Stan also after the long career in UMO. The list of the groups that have had Stan as a sideman is long and versatile, for example bandleaders Edward Vesala, Heikki Sarmanto and Paroni Paakkunainen have cooperated with him.

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