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Blindfold with Baran Say

14 April 2022

417 Blindfold's guest double bass player Baran Say.

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The Poems Defne Şahin Mumbles on The Road

20 January 2022

560 Defne Şahin studied jazz music at the Berlin University of Fine Arts and later in Escola Superior de Música Barcelona.

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Blindfold with Barış Ertürk

10 November 2021

670 Blindfold’s guest is saxophonist Barış Ertürk.

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Orhan Kahyaoğlu's New Book “Duru, Derin, Çıplak”; Anouar Brahem

23 July 2021

768 “Duru, Derin, Çıplak” is possibly the first text written in the book format on Anouar Brahem in the world.

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Serdar Ateşer's Poetry Anthology

15 July 2021

733 Serdar Ateşer released four albums until today. His first two albums are dominated by instrumental pieces while his third album “Avdet Seyri” illustrates a shift to poetry compositions.

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Physical, Digital or Both, and How?

25 June 2021

701 In order to see the reflections of global post-pandemic concert trends in Turkey, I asked a few questions to major players of our music industry.

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Blindfold with Zulfugar Baghirov

23 June 2021

771 Blindfold’s latest guest is saxophonist Zulfugar Baghirov.

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Zildjian Family as it Approaches Its 400th Anniversary

17 May 2021

2033 Avedis Zildjian the First discovered his famous secret recipe in 1623 in Istanbul. The 400th anniversary of this legend will be celebrated in 2023.

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Open Land: Meeting John Abercrombie

14 May 2021

989 The film starts with New York night shots in the opening credits, with “Sad Song” from the album “Wait Till You See Her” playing on the background.

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The First Jazz Recording That Has Never Been Recorded Before Belongs to an Afro-American Woman

4 May 2021

862 Mamie Smith and her band “Jazz Hounds” recorded their LP “Crazy Blues” 100 years ago, changing the path of music in the 1900s.

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Blindfold with Esra Kayıkçı & Hakan Kamalı

12 March 2021

776 The first Blindfold of 2021 features double bass player and vocalist Esra Kayıkçı and her husband; guitarist Hakan Kamalı.

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Soul

12 February 2021

830 “Soul” is a must-watch movie for everyone with its existentialist search, music and high-quality animations!

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Bardmanship in the Lyrics of Selen Gülün...

11 February 2021

769 In this article, I wanted to focus on the songs of Selen Gülün, who is one of the few examples of musicians who play an instrument, sing and write their own pieces in Turkey.

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The Mandatory Building Blocks of a Jazz Repertoire

28 December 2020

706 Ted Gioia is one of the founders of the Stanford Jazz Studies program, a jazz critic and music historian.

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Culture Industry and Jazz

9 December 2020

862 How did the technological developments of the last 15 years change our listening practices? The current situation of the culture industry and its positive and negative effects on jazz.

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Blindfold with Aslı Özer

29 November 2020

997 Blindfold’s guest is pianist and composer Aslı Özer this time.

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Blindfold with Mehmet Ali Şimayli

7 November 2020

957 We presented this young musician with a selection of four pieces from both the old and current eras.

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Mozaik Music Ensemble’s Poems in their “Külliyat” (Complete Works)

6 October 2020

818 We will focus on Mozaik Music Ensemble, one of the most mariginal bands of the 1980s, in our series about the examples on the union of jazz and poetry.

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Blindfold with Baturay Yarkın

1 July 2020

971 This week's Blindfold guest is pianist and composer Baturay Yarkın. Yarkın was born to a musician family.

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Corona Jazz Clinic IV: Recipes for Older People

28 June 2020

910 We should have forget that we are never alone despite being cooped up at our homes. We will perform this bizarre piece together.

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“Promise Me I’ll Be Alive When I leave My Home”: On Samora Pinderhughes, BLACK SPRING and Racism

25 June 2020

3652 We define ourselves through our opposites. It is thanks to ‘others’ that we are, what we think and define we are.

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Corona Jazz Clinic III: How Will The Musicians and Clubs Survive?

18 June 2020

871 How will the jazz musicians and workers will make sure to keep financially secure during the pandamic, whose duration we do not yet know?

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An Album Adapted from a Novel and Its Precursor

14 June 2020

1184 Gethenian Suite, Ursula K. LeGuin'in Karanlığın Sol Eli romanından esinlenilerek hazırlanmış bir albüm.

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Corona Jazz Clinic II: The Survival to Exist in Livestreams

11 June 2020

761 Giant tsunami waves made it to our mobile phones as COVID-19 was taking us like a storm. These huge waves, which exponentially increased, dragged everyone who got caught up away.

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Corona Jazz Clinic I: Situation Report

3 June 2020

1186 I will try to list the tools that might be of use to us with some healing recipes in this "Corona Jazz Clinic" article series during these days when we sit down and negotiate with faith.

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Yiğit Özatalay’s Poetic Melodies

29 May 2020

956 I conducted an interview with Yiğit Özatalt about his albums with “Yürüyen Merdiven” and his poetic compositions.

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Hidden Stanzas in the Compositions of Tamer Temel and Ece Ayhan

23 January 2020

1070 ''…even though jazz has been one of the leading genres that has inspired poets, there are jazz musicians who have been influenced by poets themselves.''

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Blindfold with Can Tutuğ

13 December 2019

1307 Blindfold’s guest is vibraphonist Can Tutuğ.

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From Tutu Jazz to Stretch Music: Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah

13 October 2019

1878 “Truth vibrates different than lies. People can hear and feel this.”

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Jazz Musicians Among Poets, Poets Among Jazz Musicians

28 September 2019

1285 “Jazz Festivals with Poems”

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“Strollin” at Gölbaşı with Tuna Ötenel

15 July 2019

1288 Tuna Ötenel is one of the first and most important names that come to mind when jazz in Turkey is concerned.

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Blindfold with Selçuk Karaman

22 June 2019

1444 SelKa views music from a large perspective.

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What is Jazz?

13 June 2019

1960 An issue that’s been unsolved in the recent years has popped up again.

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Jazz and Politics IV - Jazz During WWII

17 March 2019

1395 Oppressive movements against jazz and popular arts started right after WWII.

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Jazz and Politics III - Jazz in Stalin Era

1 March 2019

3063 Jazz was first heard in the Soviet Union five years after its emergence in the Western Europe and soon was accepted as a form of popular music.

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A Fruitful Start at 2019

25 February 2019

1234 We had a fruitful start at 2019 as far as jazz books go.

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Güç Başar Gülle

11 February 2019

1291 Blindfold’s guest is guitarist and composer Güç Başar Gülle.

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Jazz and Politics II - Jazz During the Third Reich

4 February 2019

2510 Germany discovered jazz during the Weimer Republic.

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Jazz and Politics – I

17 January 2019

1549 Politics is an unavoidable truth of our lives whether we want it to be or not.

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“Best” Jazz Books of 2018

7 January 2019

1676 We will evaluate 2018’s jazz books, published either in English or Turkish.

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“La Menace” and Gerry Mulligan

2 December 2018

1921 What would one expect from a movie whose soundtrack includes a song called “Dance of The Truck”?

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The Gene Krupa Story

29 November 2018

3050 Krupa, who started his music career in Chicago, starts rising in the ranks when he joins Benny Goodman’s orchestra when he was 20 years old.

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Passionate and Reserved: Paso Doble Outfits

27 November 2018

3804 Paso Doble or Pasodoble, which carries heavy flamenco influences, is a dramatic dance that took its musings from the Spanish bull fights.

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The Americanization of “Emily”, Johnny Mandel & Johnny Mercer

24 November 2018

2705 The score of the 1964 movie include “Emily” a Johnny Mendel composition with Johnny Mercer lyrics, which we are used to hearing in the waltz format.

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Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary

12 May 2018

1476 “Chasing Trane” starts with the 1950s era during which Coltrane plays in Miles Davis Quintet.

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The First Guest of 2018 is Guitarist and Composer Yavuz Akyazıcı

28 January 2018

1733 The musician graduated from the famous New School with a degree in jazz and performed in New York for 17 years. He then returned to Turkey and released Turkish Standards Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, in which he adapted Turkish pop songs to jazz.