7 July 2022856Master musician, composer, arranger and guitarist Önder Focan's new album Aubergine/ Patlıcan was released on all digital platforms last month.
16 March 2022465While making the album listeners experience different moods together; listeners can sometimes feel themselves in an instructive study and sometimes feel Indian, Turkish and Western music with jazz factors.
12 March 2022487It is time that more people knew about the amount of it that Rachael Cohen brings to her playing, to other musicians, to students and to audiences.
16 December 2021527The first steps of the establishment of the jazz major problem in Istanbul University’s State Conservatoire were the ideas and initiative Aycan Teztel took with late Prof. Müfit Bayraşa, who was the school director at that time.
20 November 2021713Prominent bass guitarist Erhan Ertetik has created a following in Turkey with his many projects, which includes the jazz fusion band Cazzip Project.
15 November 2021562Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol was in Bursa to attend Dr. Hüseyin Parkan Sanlıkol Museum of Musical Instruments that has been opened to commemorate his father’s memory.
6 October 20211395Jana Varga is a Slovak artist living in London and her music is very much in the timeless singer-songwriter traditions of American and British artists of the late 60's through the present day.
27 August 20211057The musician graduated with a degree in piano performance from Berklee and got the opportunity to work with masters such as John Patitucci, Dave Liebman, Terri Lyne Carrington and George Garzone at “Global Jazz Institute”, founded and directed by Danilo Perez.
21 June 20211817During the nineties, Lambert was the musical director for one of the biggest icons of Bossa Nova in the world, the singer, Astrud Gilberto.
29 May 20212396Other than his prominent musicianship, guitarist Mike Moreno has come up with beautiful ideas about music in the last couple of years which attracted a lot of people’s attention to the history of jazz deeply.
7 February 2021825We talked to Önder Focan about the release of “Nubook”, which coincided with a rather unusual era, and the sectoral trauma caused by the pandemic, fueled by a conversation that started with Nardis Jazz Club, which Focan has been directing and managing for many years.
30 January 2021979Murat Ulus is the only representative of the 1950s generation among musicians who have worked to improve and popularize jazz music in Ankara.
24 January 2021728BE Contemporary is pleased to host PROCESSING, the first solo exhibition of musician and visual artist Oguz Buyukberber from January 22 to March 2, 2021.
16 January 20211047Selen Gülün first released Yollar (a two-track album) and then solo piano albums Yavaş and Daha Yavaş in 2020 from her own music label iKi Muzik.
21 December 2020978Guitarist and composer Eylül Biçer has been present in the kitchen of many albums, and has recently released his first composition album Byblos in November 2020.
10 October 2020947It has been a while since we listened to a Turkish big bang recording but Halil İbrahim Işık’s “BA-BE” with Bosphorus Big Band changed that.
19 July 20201240Cenk, one of the two sons of musicians Randy and Aydın Esen, graduated from Berklee in America and returned to his country of birth. We conducted a mini interview with him.
9 July 20201421I was lucky to meet with Sam and Jason in Brighton. During corona days, they perform online. I thought it would be a good idea to introduce you to each other.
17 March 20201344Guitarist, composer, arrangement writer, producer, writer and poet Şevket Akıncı graduated from Berklee College of Music in 1994 and released his first album “Uçurumda Açan” in 1996.
9 March 20201110'166 Days' is the first solo album of saxophonist Anıl Şallıel, who is one of the most prolific representatives of the younger generation of jazz music.
1 March 20201451We were set to listen to Black Pencil's latest project and album's namesake "Sit Fast", named after the works of Christopher Tye who lives in the 1500s, at one of my favorite vanues, Borusan Müzikevi, on the 21st of February, Friday.
18 February 2020882We met with Carmen Souza, who is a singer, composer and lyrics writer from Cape Verde, in Lisbon to talk about her new album ‘Silver Messengers’ 5 days after the album's release on the 25th of October, 2019.
6 February 20201092Our interview with Coşku Turhan takes place between continents. Because he currently lives in Los Angeles. I would like to introduce Coşku Turhan to you before we start talking about his album.
20 January 20201069Legendary musician Charles Lloyd performed at CRR on the 23rd of October 2019 with his Sky Trio (with bassist Reuben Rogers and drummer Eric Harland) and pianist Gerald Clayton and guitarist Marvin Sewell.
10 January 20201694We had the opportunity to have a long conversation with Cem Tuncer, who released his first solo album ‘Alright!’ through Lin Records on the 25th of October, before the first concert of this album.
7 January 20201903The story of The Badau started four years ago with a family of three in the Yeldeğirmeni district of Kadıköy, which has recently turned into an art scene.
28 December 20191705Romain Pilon, French contemporary jazz guitarist teams with American bassist Jeff Denson to release “Between Two Worlds”, Brian Blade on drums completes the trio.
29 October 20191616Someone that has changed the entire jazz scene of the 70s; someone, like what his predecessors had done, that has brought up another phase in jazz history and someone who has revolutionized his instrument…
21 September 20191268The performance of Kerem Türkaydın’s “Candid Music” project will take place on the 24th of October, Thursday, at 19:00 in Aksanat.
27 June 20191357Guitarist and composer Efe Demiral released his second album “Uyku Pansiyon” in January 2019 three years after he released his first solo album “Inside Out”, which he recorded and mixed mostly at home.