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ozan musluoglu

Bass player and music lover

About Me

Ozan was born in Germany in 1977 and started playing bass guitar at the age of 16. In 2000, he won a full scholarship to the Bilgi University Music Department; and in 2001, he started his studies with Volkan Hürsever, James Lewis and Kürşat And.He has since then shared the stage with Kerem Görsev, Vanessa Rubin, Danny Grissett, Dena Derose, Allan Harris, Hilary Kole, Gary Dial, Tuna Ötenel, İmer Demirer, Ilhan Ersahin, Donovan Mixon, Onder Focan, Erkan Oğur and Neşet Ruacan. He has done workshops with very well-known bassists as Marc Johnson, David Friesen, Dominique Lemerie and Robert Balzar. He had the opportunity to play with some musicians like Marcus Miller, Roy Hargrove, Mike Stern, Willy Jones, Eric Reed, Erik Smith, Katy Roberts, Bebel Gilberto, Ilhan Ersahin, Leslie Harrison, EJ Strickland, George Colligan and Bernard Maury in various jam sessions and club dates. Also, as bassist of the group Athena from 2003-2007, he recorded albums and toured nationally and internationally, including representing Turkey in the 2004 Eurovision Song Contest where they placed 4th. In January 2009, Ozan Musluoğlu enthusiastically released his first album under the Recbyjazz label in February 2009. On the same year Ozan finished recording his 2nd album consists of his original compositions . The musicians in this album which has been released under Equinox Music Label in 2011 May are: Jeremy Pelt, voted rising star on the trumpet 5 years in a row by Downbeat magazine; JD Allen on tenor saxophone, Danny Grissett on piano and Darrell Green on drums. Currently, Ozan Musluoğlu is the bass player for the TRT jazz orchestra lead by one of the most respected musicians in Turkey ,Neşet Ruacan. At the same time he produces and presents the weekly jazz radio program titled “Caz Saati” on the national radio TRT on every Monday at 11 pm.



He performed in a lot of different jazz festivals around the world over the years, such as;

2001 Bodrum Jazz Festival

2002-2003 Afyonkarahisar Jazz Festival

2003 Istanbul Jazz Festival

2003 Akbank Jazz Festival

2004 Baku Jazz Festival

2006 Bratislava Jazz Festival

2008 Alanya Jazz Festival

2010 Istanbul Jazz Festival

2010 Ramazan Jazz Festival

2011 Nublu Jazz Festival

2011 Istanbul Jazz Festival