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Timucin Sahin Quintet: Inherence

Read "Inherence" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


La chitarra a doppio manico (uno dei quali fretless a sette corde) di Timucin Sahin (origini turche, studi in Olanda, residenza attuale newyorchese) è la protagonista assoluta di questa incisione. Non nel senso più prevedibile di primadonna egocentrica e vanitosa ma come prolungamento indispensabile e convincente delle idee compositive ed espressive del leader. Certo una front line formata da Ralph Alessi e John O'Gallagher abbinata ad una sezione ritmica comprendente l'emergente Christopher Tordini e lo straordinario Tyshawn Sorey agevola enormemente ...

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Timucin Sahin: Fretless and Fearless

Read "Timucin Sahin: Fretless and Fearless" reviewed by Matthew Warnock


Exciting, creative, challenging, noise, nonsense, genius--all of these words and more have been used for decades by critics and listeners alike to describe the avant-garde movement in jazz. While there seems to be no consensus on the genres appeal, some love it and others detest it, the avant-garde has always had a unique ability to draw out emotions in people, regardless of their listening preferences. The music is technically and musically challenging to the performers and to the listeners as ...

Album Review

Timucin Sahin: Bafa

Read "Bafa" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Bafa del chitarrista di origine turca Timucin Sahin è un album decisamente enigmatico, sospeso fra il jazz contemporaneo più vigoroso e i profumi etnici interpretati più con lo sguardo della contemporaneità, piuttosto che con quello dell'etnomusicologia. I quattro musicisti impegnati in questo bel CD sembrano lavorare con grande senso dell'interplay e riescono a ricreare la magia che sa fondere i loro sussulti in un unico grido che trascende la tradizione e si lancia verso l'ignoto con la consapevolezza e il ...

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Album Review

Timucin Sahin: Bafa

Read "Bafa" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose


It might have been easy to attribute it all to Ornette Coleman. Had he not recorded with quartets that did not include pianos the chances are not many musicians would have had the gumption to structure their quartets likewise. He then went and recorded Song X, one of his most progressive Harmolodic recordings that preceded his Primetime catalogue. The language of saxophone-guitar dialogues has never been the same after Coleman's legendary Harmolodic duels with Pat Metheny. There is a chance ...

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Album Review

Timucin Sahin Trio: Window for My Breath

Read "Window for My Breath" reviewed by John Kelman


Turkish-born, Netherlands-educated, and soon-to-be New York-resident guitarist Timuçin Åžahin is but one example showing that a jazz mindset can be found in countries off the beaten path. Like Slovenian guitarist Samo Å alamon, Åžahin's debut, Slick Road (Kalan, 2004), demonstrated that a conventional jazz aesthetic and broader cultural influences need not make strange bedfellows.

The 33 year-old Åžahin seems to have surprisingly little in common with influences normally associated with up-and-coming guitarists, like Frisell, Metheny, and Scofield. Instead, Åžahin's style--all the ...

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Album Review

Timucin Sahin: Slick Road

Read "Slick Road" reviewed by John Kelman


With the world becoming a smaller place, jazz is finding its way into unexpected places. Slovenia has a burgeoning jazz scene with artists like Samo Salamon and Jure Pukl; from India artists include the genre-bending Prasanna and the improvisationally rich U. Srinivas; and now, from Turkey comes Timucin Sahin with Slick Road , an album that shows how far away from the American tradition jazz has drifted, all the while remaining vibrant and true to its essence.

Sahin's influences are ...


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