Those who know about trumpet player and vocalist Chet Baker know that his life is split into two parts: one before his teeth were broken and one after. The 2016 film “Born to be Blue” is a biopic that threads the line between fiction and fact...
Zorlu PSM starts the season with Mike Stern & Dave Weckl Band on the 3rd of November, goes on with Victor Wooten Trio on the 11th and 12th of November as a part of the Garanti Caz Yeşili concerts, followed by Madeleine Peyroux on the 5th of...
The SFJAZZ Collective is an all-star award-winning jazz ensemble comprising eight of the finest performers/composers at work in jazz today. The current octet is a burnished international ensemble comprising alto saxophonist Miguel Zenón, tenor...
Nazdrave team: Bulut Gülen on the trombone, Barış Doğukan Yazıcı on the trumpet, Engin Recepoğulları on the saxophone, Ercüment Orkut on the keyboard, and Orhan Deniz on the bass guitar.
26th Akbank Jazz Festival has hosted many colourful concerts and some incredible musicians like Erik Truffaz, Jason Marsalis, Omar Sosa, Pharoah Sanders and Ron Carter this year. In addition, we all let out a sigh of relief when none of these...
Şenova Ülker is an esteemed trumpet player and teacher. He is one of those rare artists who combine the freedom and limitless nature of jazz with the discipline and maturity of classical music.
We can accept Pharoah Sanders as one of the most important representatives of the kind of jazz music that has started in 1965, and possibly one of the most important names when the world-wide changes in music is concerned.
For those who know him and his past, maybe 30, 35 years. Fatih Erkoç has always been one of those special musicians who has remained unchanged, almost a constant, in our music which has gone through so many changes, even occasionally has been...
Sibel Köse is one of the most prominent jazz musicians in Turkey. Music entered her life through the records her sister had brought home. French music was very popular back then. She met Ella Fitzgerald when her sister mistakenly brought her...