2 December 2020307Yes, it can be really boring to be isolated, but we can make these times more enjoyable by listening to great music and discovering new musicians and bands.
16 November 2020252Even though inevitable busy days resulted in more sporadic articles, I think it has been a fruitful period when it comes to test driving an endless array of great jazz albums.
16 September 2020334But let’s forget about Corona for a few minutes (of course, after we take the necessary precautions about it!) and turn our gaze towards great works of art.
14 August 2020703Apostolos Sideris is familiar name for jazz musicians and followers in Turkey. He has been living in Istanbul for a long time and he is more Turkish in attitude than I am.
23 April 2020627I would like to share a couple of ways to make the "boring" minutes that fill our days lately by sharing an album that I recently discovered after a short research, that I had imagined for years thinking "how great it would be if such and such album was recorded!", among with some others.
19 April 2020416I wrote "I don't know how many days we are into the quarantine" in my previous review and I am at home during an actual lockdown on a cloudy Saturday, which normally wouldn't tempt me to go out.
10 April 2020379I would like to introduce some albums I discovered or that are recently released so that your Corona stress might be somewhat relieved.
6 March 20203114Cemal Reşit Rey Concert Hall took its audiences on a jazz journey from Brazil to Jamaica with its concert series between 21-24 February.
23 February 2020879We listened to Chiara Pancaldi on the 16th of February at Cemal Reşit Rey Concert Hall with Roberto Tarenzi on piano, Darryl Hall on double bass and Roberto Pistolesi on the drums.
11 November 2019597The band, which has toured Germany, Austria, France, Sweden and Belgium among other countries during October and it was great to see them perform in Turkey.
19 September 2019450We are ready for the next year. May summer come, the water surrounding Bozcaada warm up, the jazz festival’s program announced, everyone buys their tickets, may we have sea and sun in the morning and meet at Ayazma Monastery during sunset.
13 September 2019174574 years-old musician Randy Brecker is a first-class post-bop and fusion jazz interpreter, coming from the school of Clifford Brown and Freddie Hubbard.
28 August 20192097San Sebastian undoubtedly is the first place that comes to mind in the Basque region when European tourists are concerned. Another aspect of San Sebastian that will lure the jazz loving crowds is that it houses an old festival with a history of 54 years.
3 July 2019825Norah Jones’s new Blue Note studio album “Begin Again” is less about new beginnings and more about pondering and wondering what to do about the album itself.
29 June 2019572Drummer Mark Guiliana and his team of unique bandmates were Zorlu PSM Jazz Festival’s guests on the 7th of May with the “Beat Music-Beat Music Beat Music” project.
9 May 2019692John McLaughlin & 4th Dimension naturally was one of the names that got me excited when I saw the program of Zorlu Jazz Festival this year.
3 May 20191405Şevket Akıncı’s magnum opus’ “Escher Chronicles” might be the real music that Real Turkey has been looking for desperately for many years.
29 April 20192679Friedemann Matzeit, Benedikt Jahnel ve Henning Sieverts’s collaboration album “Both Sides”, released by JazzHausMusik - Köln, is a game changer in the trio jazz music field.
7 April 2019778Eren Coşkuner released “The Long Way”, the first jazz flute album in Turkish jazz history in 2013 through Gri Plak label and combined this unique instrument with a rather special genre, creating a special album that could be used as an example many years later (I don’t even remember how many times I listened to this album when it...
5 April 20191817This is a piano-saxophone duo project from “JazzHaus Musik - Köln”, a company based in the big city of Cologne that has been present in the German jazz scene.