Undoubtedly one of the most enjoyable concert series of the season, PSM’s program consisting of experienced names has been announced.
During the “Jazz at PSM” days, the masters of jazz will be on Zorlu PSM stages. Budding Swedish star Lisa Ekdahl with French melodies on May 4; On May 10, Grammy-winning legendary jazz-fusion band Yellowjackets; Erol Evgin, the legendary name of Turkish pop music, with the concept of “Erol Evgin Sings Jazz” on May 13; On May 20, Anouar Brahem, one of the living legends of jazz with his musical experience of more than forty years; On May 20, trumpet master Sefi Zisling, with his unique performance blending jazz and funk melodies; Liraz, who gained a great prestige in the international arena on May 21, not only with its productions but also with its identity and strong stance; Mulatu Astatke, who was shown as one of the founders of Ethio-Jazz on May 26, blending jazz and funk with traditional Ethiopian folk melodies; with drums, bass, keyboard and live sound experiences at heart on May 27; NERVE, the project of virtuoso drummer Jojo Mayer, that blends pre-made electronic sounds with improvisational performance, will take the stage at Zorlu PSM’s fascinating stages!
Alp Ersönmez, one of the important names of the local scene, with his album project ‘Cereyanlı’ on 13 May; Deniz Tekin, with her special project that full of Leonard Cohen songs, on May 14; Jülide Özçelik on May 18; with the ‘Multiverse’ project, Çağrı Sertel will be on the stage of Zorlu PSM on May 18 as part of Jazz at PSM!
Fikri Karayel, who has attracted attention with his vocal color and productions in recent years, will present a delightful selection of jazz with his project, Jazz Ensemble, on May 21; Seda Erciyes plays Essentials on May 28; and we will feel yourself in a jazz club in old Pera with Tuğçe Şenoğul will be with you at Zorlu PSM on 28 May with her special project ‘Club Dream’.
Tickets are on sale via Passo and Zorlu PSM box offices
Lisa Eckdahl 4th May
Listen, feel, explore! Change your world with jazz at Zorlu PSM! Lisa Ekdahl, a Swedish star bloomed in French melodies, will be a guest of PSM Jazz series and enchant us with her bossa nova style in May 4th in Turkcell Platinum Stage!
Lisa Ekdahl was brought into superstardom overnight in Scandinavia in the winter of 1994. Her debut album was a huge success, it gave her three Grammy awards. The fragility and sensitivity of hers, combined with a laid back style, dazzled fans and critics. Her music reached out to many European countries, especially France has fallen for her understated way of performing jazz standards, bossanova and original songs. Her first recording job was as a background vocalist. Even though it did not turn out well, Lisa was discovered and offered to make her own record: “Lisa Ekdahl”, her debut album. When she was 19, she started to perform in small jazz clubs with Swedish jazz trio “The Peter Nordahl trio”. Lisa & the trio played a series of concerts at club La Villa in the Saint Germain area of Paris. Later, they released two albums together: “When did you leave Heaven” & “Back to earth”. Lisa released the bossa nova album “Lisa Ekdahl sings Salvadore Poe” in 2001, gaining a lot of appreciation in Europe. After living in NYC for some time Lisa went back to Stockholm to record the 9 original compositions for “Give me that slow knowing smile”, released in 2009.
“You sometimes feel meaningless. Otherwise, I do not think it’s time to play such a big role. I can always write songs. I’ll sing to delirium. The music is really a free zone for me. I can thank the life of this gift.”
Yellowjackets May 10th
The Grammy awarded, legendary jazz-fusion band Yellowjackets will be at PSM Jazz Festival on May 10th at 2022!
Founded in 1977, Yellowjackets, one of the super-groups of jazz that has been playing together for nearly forty years, has released a total of 24 albums. The cult band with 17 Grammy nominations released their latest album “Raising Our Voice” which draws inspiration from the political and emotional turmoil that has taken over the world in recent years. The album, crowned with the vocals of famous Brazilian vocalist Luciana Souza, rose to number one in the American jazz charts in 2018.
“You know longevity can be both a blessing and a curse. The blessing is the connection you make with the other musicians, the playing, the songwriting that can really develop to a deep level. The curse is that everyone is looking for something new, I remember when we turned in one of our albums the recorded company said – well there they go again, just doing another Yellowjackets record. You know, there’s some merit to that, you’ve got to keep it moving and growing and that’s the real challenge”.
Alp Ersönmez “Cereyanlı” May 13th
Alp Ersönmez will be the guest of %100 Studio with his latest album “Cereyanlı”, on the evening of 13 May within Jazz At PSM!
Alp Ersönmez’s album “Cereyanlı”, which was released in two parts in 2021, brings together an energetic and upbeat music with the audience.
In the album, compositions supported by sequencer and computer; Alp Ersönmez, who presents with a star cast including important guests such as Erik Truffaz, Bugge Wesseltoft, İlhan Erşahin, DJ Logic, PapaDee, İmer Demirer, Arto Tunçboyacıyan; perform with stars lile Engin Recepoğulları, Barış Doğukan Yazıcı, Çağrı Sertel and Ediz Hafızoğlu on the stage.
Engin Recepoğulları (ts), Barış Doğukan Yazıcı (tp), Çağrı Sertel (keys), Alp Ersönmez (b), Ediz Hafizoglu (d).
Erol Evgin Sings Jazz May 13th
The legend Turkish pop music singer Erol Evgin, will be joining us awith his “Erol Evgin Caz Söylüyor” project on May 13rd 2022 at Turkcell Sahnesi!
Erol Evgin will be singing his reknown songs such as “Sevdan Olmasa”, “Ateşle Oynama”, “İşte Öyle Bir Şey”, “Ben İmkansız Aşklar İçin Yaratılmışım”, “İçimdeki Fırtına” in a jazz-oriented form. Besides his songs, his repertoire will include a selection of jazz classics. In the concert, the artist will be joined by many succsesful jazz musicians under the direction of the pianist Can Çankaya.
Deniz Tekin Sings Leonard Cohen
Deniz Tekin, one of the most successful musicians of the last period with her melodious vocals and strong words accompanying simple acoustic guitar or piano arrangements, will be at touché on May 14 with a one-time special project where she will sing Leonard Cohen songs within Jazz at Zorlu PSM!
Jülide Özçelik May 17th
Jülide Özçelik, known as one of the important performers of the music world with her albums, who set out with the idea of making an album that belongs to us but at universal standards and with Turkish lyrics, will be at Turkcell Platinum Stage on May 17, 2022within Jazz at Zorlu PSM.
By interpreting her own compositions and favorite works with her musician friends, she brought together the albums “Jazz Istanbul Volume-1” at the beginning of 2008 and “Jazz Istanbul Volume-2” in December 2011. All arrangements of her 3rd album Nefes, which was released at the beginning of 2019, belong to Cem Tuncer, as in her previous albums.
In addition to her solo concerts in many local and international festivals, Jülide Özçelik continues her series of concerts with Bursa, Antalya, Çukurova and İstanbul State Symphony Orchestras.
In her concert at Turkcell Platinum Stage on May 17, 2022, Jülide Özçelik will be on stage with her valuable musician friends Cem Tuncer on guitar, Ercüment Orkut on piano, Efecan Tuncer on bass guitar and Ediz Hafızoğlu on drums.
Çağrı Sertel May 18th
Pianist Çağrı Sertel, who has signed different projects as an arranger, composer and producer, will be at %100 Studio on the evening of May 18 with his project “Multiverse” within Jazz At PSM!
Çağrı Sertel aims to create a world where his music can make instant changes. He created a special setup consisting of analog synths, drum machines, electronic keyboards and acoustic piano. He obtained a unique sound by passing the acoustic piano in the setup he prepared through the effect pedals.
Bringing together the beats he wrote and the unique piano sound, Sertel set up his own vocal recordings as an instrument within the composition he created. The multiverse world of Çağrı Sertel, which will increase its diversity with instrumental articulations and different artists, invites the listeners to be guests of another universe with the singles and album work that will continue to be released in the coming months.
Anouar Brahem May 20th
Listen, feel, explore! Change your world with Jazz at PSM! Anouar Brahem, one of the living legends of jazz with more than 40 years of musical experience, will be at Turkcell Stage on May 20!
Brahem constantly updates the centuries-old tradition of Arabic music with its trademark oud and its perfect refinement, combining it not only with modern jazz, but also with Western compositional techniques and ancient cultural motifs from the East.
As leader of this group, more lively and creative than ever after ten years of close understanding between himself and his musicians, Anouar Brahem is now casting a fresh look at his musical universe and opening up some original horizons for it.
Sefi Zisling May 20th
Trumpet master Sefi Zisling will be at touché on the evening of May 20 with his unique performance that blend jazz and funk melodies!
Sefi Zisling, who has consistently achieved success in the Tel Aviv music scene, started playing the trumpet at the age of 10. After discovering his talents, Zesling enrolled at the prestigious art school Thelma Yellin and has performed in many bands since his teenage. Since the early years of his career, he has recorded and performed with almost every important musician of the jazz scene in Israel. Mastering the art of the trumpet, Sefi transcended his role as an instrumentalist with his ‘Expanse’ album, evolved and became a composer, producer and creative force to be reckoned with.
Liraz May 21st
Liraz, which has gained a great reputation in the international arena not only with her productions but also her identity and strong stance, will be at %100 Studio on the evening of May 21st!
Liraz is an Iranian-Israeli artist who shines with her latest production titled Remotely Close: Azizam, as a result of a collaboration with Kamufle, one of the successful names of Turkish rap music. Continuing her artistic career as an actress, singer and dancer, Liraz Charhi secretly reconnected two countries, Iran and Israel, with her latest album, Zan (Women). Zan is her second album in Persian.
She expressed that she hopes the album, released in 2020, will create a sense of unity between Israelis and Iranians. Zan is full of electro dance tracks remastered from 1970s Iranian pop music.
The singer’s first album, Naz, released in 2018, was shared by Iranian women on social media, and her songs became a small-scale hit in Iran.
Fikri Karayel Jazz Ensemble May 21st
Fikri Karayel will be at touché on the evening of May 21 with his band consisting of valuable musicians of the jazz scene within Jazz At Zorlu PSM.
Fikri Karayel, who has always carried the jazz sounds in his pocket since the beginning of his music career, brings together the “Fikri Karayel Jazz Ensemble” project with the jazz musicians, with whom he constantly performs at his concerts.
Mulatku Astatke May 26th
Among the founders of Ethio-Jazz; blending jazz and funk with traditional Ethiopian folk melodies, Mulatu Astatke will change our world with one of his brilliant performance with Jazz at PSM on May 26th!
Born in the western Ethiopian city of Jimma, Mulatu trained in London, New York City, and Boston where he combined his jazz and Latin music interests with traditional Ethiopian music and became the first African student to enroll at Boston’s prestigious Berklee College of Music.
Astatke led his band while playing vibraphone and conga drums—instruments that he introduced into Ethiopian popular music— other percussion instruments, keyboards and organ. His albums focus primarily on instrumental music, and Astatke appears on all three known albums of instrumentals that were released during Ethiopia’s Golden ’70s. He collaborated with many notable artists, arranging and playing on recordings by Mahmoud Ahmed, and appearing as a special guest with Duke Ellington during a tour of Ethiopia in 1973.
His Western audience expanded even further when the 2005 Jim Jarmusch film Broken Flowers featured seven of Astatke’s songs. Hip hop artists have also sampled Astatke’s songs extensively, for example in the works of Nas, Damian Marley, Kanye West, Cut Chemist, and Knaan. He toured with US band Either/Orchestra in 2006 and in 2008 recorded an album with the Heliocentrics and completed a Radcliffe Institute Fellowship at Harvard University, where he worked on modernizations of traditional Ethiopian instruments and premiered a portion of a new opera, The Yared Opera.
Jojo Mayer, May 27th
With drums, bass, keyboard and live sound experiences at heart; NERVE, the project of virtuoso drummer Jojo Mayer, which blends pre-made electronic sounds with improvisational performance, will be at %100 Studio on the evening of May 27 as part of Jazz at PSM to provide an unforgettable experience!
NERVE embraces the essence of rock’n roll while also assimilating a wide spectrum of electronic styles from old school jungle, dub step or glitch beats to minimal and tech house and anything that could escape genre descriptions yet.
The group manages to acquaint a new audience with improvised music for the first time and ultimately brings the Jazz tradition of improvisation, driving rhythms and stylistic evolution to the digital age. Re-examining and transcending the relationship between human creativity and digital technology, the band creates a new form of musical expression which is completely unique in the world today.
Tuğçe Şenoğul Presents, May 28th
You are invited to a night where you will find yourself in a dream where your favorite songs are playing in an old jazz club in Pera with Tuğçe Şenoğul. Tuğçe Şenoğul Sunar: Club Rüya will be at touché on the evening of 28 May.
Seda Erciyes Plays Essentials, May 28th
Listen, feel, explore! Change your world with jazz at Zorlu PSM! Seda Erciyes will be at touché on May 28 wit her special project “Seda Erciyes Plays Essentials” within Jazz At PSM
