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Blindfold with Esra Kayıkçı & Hakan Kamalı

12 March 2021

201 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

273 “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

269 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

294 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

392 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

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

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Blindfold with Mehmet Ali Şimayli

7 November 2020

361 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

336 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

480 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

537 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

2107 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

505 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

572 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

381 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

570 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

457 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

560 ''…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

775 Blindfold’s guest is vibraphonist Can Tutuğ.

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From Tutu Jazz to Stretch Music: Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah

13 October 2019

1067 “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

719 “Jazz Festivals with Poems”

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“Strollin” at Gölbaşı with Tuna Ötenel

15 July 2019

830 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

821 SelKa views music from a large perspective.

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What is Jazz?

13 June 2019

1090 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

825 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

1422 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

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

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Güç Başar Gülle

11 February 2019

861 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

1308 Germany discovered jazz during the Weimer Republic.

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Jazz and Politics – I

17 January 2019

941 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

1057 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

1253 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

1726 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

1772 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

1692 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

1087 “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

1225 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.

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A Jazz Dreamscape

17 September 2017

1604 Sanat Deliorman writes about the New York Jazz Masters Workshop that was organised in Poland for the second time this year…

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A Jazz Journey at Stanford University

7 September 2017

1276 I took an unforgettable journey as an interpreter vocalist with Kate McGarry, Madeline Eastman and Lisa Fisher.

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Blindfold with Kristian Lind

5 September 2017

1406 Swedish jazz double bass player Kristian Lind studied jazz in Lund University and classical music in Stockholm’s Royal University Of Music.

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You Can Rock Tina Turner’s Style, Too…

16 May 2017

2664 If you want to have a style that is heavily influenced by the 1960s or the 1980s, you shouldn’t look further than Tina Turner’s style. Any of her styles is guaranteed to cause a bang.

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Blindfold with Önder Focan

12 May 2017

1278 It is Önder Focan’s move on the chessboard once more...

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About Paraphernalia

7 February 2017

1322 I wish to share my rather boring ideas on “paraphernalia” in this article, rather than the usual music theory-practice lessons I have been writing for years. I made it sound complicated by calling them “paraphernalia”, what I mean are the instruments themselves, and all the side products from effect processors to music software.

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Blindfold With Sanat Deliorman

29 January 2017

1285 Sanat Deliorman is a young and colourful jazz vocalist. We wouldn’t be far off to call her a “Renaissance Woman”!

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A Grumpy Critique on La La Land

25 January 2017

5015 A jazz movie that completely misses the point of jazz (Spoiler warning!).

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About 2016’s Jazz Books…

16 January 2017

1305 We wanted to review 2016 when it comes to the jazz books published in this year...

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What Can Jazz Teach You About Leadership?

29 December 2016

958 The word ‘leadership’ is one of the coolest words that is frequently heard these days. Everybody has something to say about it, the amount of money spent on leadership education in the business world exceeds any other educational funds by far.

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Nobel Prize Nominee and Jazz Lover: Haruki Murakami

22 December 2016

1276 Born in Kobe in 1949, Haruki Murakami graduated with a degree in classical drama from Vaseda University. He published his first novel in 1979. Haruki Murakami is undoubtedly one of the most popular authors of our day.

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Chico & Rita

16 December 2016

2942 Year 1948, Havana, Cuba. We pan into the very romantic love story of the young and talented pianist Chico and beautiful vocalist Rita. Music, action, scheming—this movie has it all!

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A Magnificent Icon: Little Richard

2 December 2016

1717 Known in the music world as Little Richard, Richard Wayne Penniman was born in 1932 and is known for being one of the most colourful names in the history of Rock ’n' Roll.

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