15 July 2021577 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.
25 June 2021549In 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.
17 May 20211191Avedis Zildjian the First discovered his famous secret recipe in 1623 in Istanbul. The 400th anniversary of this legend will be celebrated in 2023.
14 May 2021720The 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.
11 February 2021630In 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.
9 December 2020730How 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.
6 October 2020663We 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.
18 June 2020749How will the jazz musicians and workers will make sure to keep financially secure during the pandamic, whose duration we do not yet know?
11 June 2020653Giant 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.
3 June 20201049I 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.
23 January 2020924''…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.''
1 March 20192466Jazz 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.
29 November 20182769Krupa, 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.
27 November 20182875Paso Doble or Pasodoble, which carries heavy flamenco influences, is a dramatic dance that took its musings from the Spanish bull fights.
24 November 20182371The 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.
28 January 20181572The 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.
5 September 20171716Swedish jazz double bass player Kristian Lind studied jazz in Lund University and classical music in Stockholm’s Royal University Of Music.