10 May 2021725The vaccinations have started! Everybody is waiting for their turn, we keep hoping our names will be called up soon, let’s see when we make it. We will see…
2 December 20201003Yes, it can be really boring to be isolated, but we can make these times more enjoyable by listening to great music and discovering new musicians and bands.
16 November 2020736Even though inevitable busy days resulted in more sporadic articles, I think it has been a fruitful period when it comes to test driving an endless array of great jazz albums.
16 September 2020870But let’s forget about Corona for a few minutes (of course, after we take the necessary precautions about it!) and turn our gaze towards great works of art.
14 August 20201290Apostolos Sideris is familiar name for jazz musicians and followers in Turkey. He has been living in Istanbul for a long time and he is more Turkish in attitude than I am.
23 April 20201166I would like to share a couple of ways to make the "boring" minutes that fill our days lately by sharing an album that I recently discovered after a short research, that I had imagined for years thinking "how great it would be if such and such album was recorded!", among with some others.
19 April 2020779I wrote "I don't know how many days we are into the quarantine" in my previous review and I am at home during an actual lockdown on a cloudy Saturday, which normally wouldn't tempt me to go out.
10 April 2020817I would like to introduce some albums I discovered or that are recently released so that your Corona stress might be somewhat relieved.
13 September 2019251174 years-old musician Randy Brecker is a first-class post-bop and fusion jazz interpreter, coming from the school of Clifford Brown and Freddie Hubbard.
3 July 20191544Norah Jones’s new Blue Note studio album “Begin Again” is less about new beginnings and more about pondering and wondering what to do about the album itself.
29 April 20194521Friedemann Matzeit, Benedikt Jahnel ve Henning Sieverts’s collaboration album “Both Sides”, released by JazzHausMusik - Köln, is a game changer in the trio jazz music field.
7 April 20191267Eren Coşkuner released “The Long Way”, the first jazz flute album in Turkish jazz history in 2013 through Gri Plak label and combined this unique instrument with a rather special genre, creating a special album that could be used as an example many years later (I don’t even remember how many times I listened to this album when it...
5 April 20192935This is a piano-saxophone duo project from “JazzHaus Musik - Köln”, a company based in the big city of Cologne that has been present in the German jazz scene.
19 October 20186235Marc Sinan & Oğuz Büyükberber’s first ECM project together, “White”, received 4.5 stars from DownBeat magazine and is one of the most exciting albums of the year. This album can be seen as a step towards the increasing popularity of jazz duo albums.
30 September 20181276The summer is almost over. If you happen to catch the last of the few hot days, Kağan Yıldız and Can Çankaya’s precious “Timeless” can be a great sunset album for you.
21 August 20181073Another new and upcoming jazz musician who bares his heart, in my opinion, is Mustafa Avşar who recently released his first studio album Acılı Pizza through Kalan/Z Müzik.
23 June 20181286I have been following American female avant-garde guitarist Mary Halvorson, whose album “Code Girl” was released in the beginning of 2018.
7 May 20181448Even though it was recorded a while back, I think that “Tersyüz” is a great choice to add to your collection amongst this year’s releases.
24 March 20181613“All In My Mind” was recorded live in the famous New York City jazz club ‘Jazz Standard’ during the birthday celebrations that lasted a week, and Smith shows his listeners that he hasn’t lost the soul of “Evolution”.
19 March 20181277Selim Selçuk brings all these feelings and thoughts together and presents all the things he devised in his head in their purest form through PB Music label: Miles Kuçles”...
17 October 20173127Muthspiel upgrades his gameplay in Rising Grace and includes pianist Brad Mehldau and trumpet player Ambrose Akinmusire to the band, crafting an album which is reminiscent of “Driftwood” when it comes to its harmonic richness.