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Tales and Stories(2013) As performed in a standard quartet setting (pianist Warren Byrd, upright bassist Thomson Kneeland and drummer Mark Ferber), the guitarist’s tunes sound like updated classics. Tales & Stories is a pleasure-packed minor masterpiece. Mark Holston - Jazziz Magazine The quartet explores the 12 original pieces with grace, fire, wit, and emotional intensity, displaying intuitive interaction throughout. Just let these sounds wash over you; good music can excite and soothe and this is good music. Richard Kamins - Step Tempest The 12 varied pieces sometimes mix East and West elements and range from the diaphanous to hard-swinging pieces swaggering with digital dexterity and mental agility

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News: Performance / Tour

Guitarist Sinan Bakir’s Luxuriant Solo Ideas Take Root At Middletown’s Buttonwood Tree

Guitarist Sinan Bakir’s Luxuriant Solo Ideas Take Root At Middletown’s Buttonwood Tree

Guitarist/composer Sinan Bakir, a Nutmeg State transplant who’s originally from Ankara, Turkey, has set Gold Medal standards of excellence in expression in recent years with his two acclaimed recordings and live performances in many venues stretching from Connecticut to New York. You’ll get a chance to hear Bakir up close and personal in a solo electric ...

Album

Tales & Stories

Label: Aslan Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: Tales & Stories; The Messenger; Rising Tower Of Light; Two Cities; East West; Dreams; Circles; Off The Hook; TV; Up; Protagonist; Kites.

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Article: Album Review

Sinan Bakir: Tales & Stories

Read "Tales & Stories" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay


Guitarist Sinan Bakir's Tales & Stories are told by a talented quartet, which takes the guitarist's own tunes and weaves a dozen musical narratives of real quality. Bakir--a Turkish musician who moved to the US after gaining an engineering degree--has developed an original style, combining his own Turkish upbringing with rock and jazz influences. ...

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News: Contest

Enter the "Sinan Bakir - Tales & Stories" Giveaway at All About Jazz!

Enter the "Sinan Bakir - Tales & Stories" Giveaway at All About Jazz!

All About Jazz members are invited to enter the “Sinan Bakir - Tales & Stories“ giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on June 30th. Click here to enter the contest (Becoming a fan of Sinan Bakir at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.) Good luck! About Tales ...

News: Recording

Guitarist and composer Sinan Bakir Releases "Tales & Stories"

Guitarist and composer Sinan Bakir Releases "Tales & Stories"

Guitarist and composer Sinan Bakir, a native of Ankara, Turkey, who has chosen Hartford as his adopted home town, celebrates the launching of his second album, Tales & Stories (Aslan Records) with a CD release concert Saturday, Nov. 10, at 7:30 p.m. at the Buttonwood Tree, 605 Main St., Middletown. And he has much to celebrate ...

News: Performance / Tour

Windsor Jazz Series Runs Through June

Windsor Jazz Series Runs Through June

Sinan Bakir, the young, Turkish-born guitarist/composer who embraced Hartford as his hometown, has established himself as a much-respected, expressive and independent- minded player on the talent-laden local scene. Now virtually a brand name for quality as a sideman or leader, he's worked in numerous local venues, including his regular, long-running Wednesday night gig at Cuvee, a ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Sinan Bakir at Mark Twain House on March 11

Sinan Bakir at Mark Twain House on March 11

You can take-in a first-rate jazz doubleheader Sunday, March 11, in Hartford by attending the sizzling jazz brunch at the Mark Twain House and Museum, followed by the red-hot, admission-free jazz matinee series that has been drawing record-breaking turnouts at the downtown Hartford Public Library. Guitarist/composer Sinan Bakir, Turkey's crown jewel gift to the city of ...

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News: Interview

Guitarist Sinan Bakir, Turkey's Great Gift to Hartford's Ongoing Jazz Renaissance

Guitarist Sinan Bakir, Turkey's Great Gift to Hartford's Ongoing Jazz Renaissance

Guitarist Sinan Bakir Next Up In Library Jazz Series: Turkish Musician Ultimately Makes Hartford His Home Guitarist Sinan Bakir, Turkey's great gift to Hartford's ongoing jazzrenaissance, was so homesick when he first arrived in Hartford 11 years ago as a scholarship student that he almost turned around and went home to his beloved hometown of Ankara, ...

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Sinan Bakir - Ice Orbits

Featuring the music of Sinan Bakir
Duration: 5:49

Guitarist Sinan Bakir with group - Hartford Monday Night Jazz Festival

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