Results for "Aydin Esen"

Aydin Esen

Born: 1962

French Avant Prog Band Masal, Vital Information And Igor Wilcox Quartet-Live

by Len Davis
April 2, 2023

French band Masal with their latest Ahora , Aydin Esen with Miroslav Vitous and Vinnie Colaiuta. Finnish bassist Jukka Haavisto. Drummer Oiilie Usiskin with Bob Franceschini and a preview of the upcoming release from Steve Smith and Vital Information. The Igor Wilcox Quartet with their newest recorded live in Bulgaria, some classic Bob Berg and Australian ...

AkBank Jazz Festival 2019

by Francesco Martinelli
October 29, 2019

AkBank Jazz Festival Istanbul, Turkey October 18-25 2019 I arrived in Istanbul during the world-wide outrage that followed the United States pull-out from Syria and the consequent military intervention by Turkey. The new humongous airport looked rather empty compared to the crowded spaces of the old one; the trip to ...

Miroslav Vitous: Music of Weather Report

by John Ephland
October 16, 2016

The music on bassist Miroslav Vitous' Music Of Weather Report is a fascinating document by an original member of that seminal group, formed in 1970. Revisiting music he helped to create as well as one tune that came after he left the group in 1974 (along with new music he wrote and one from original member ...

Miroslav Vitous: Music of Weather Report

by Claudio Bonomi
September 6, 2016

Potremmo subito dire che questo album è un acquisto obbligato per tutti coloro che hanno amato, e continuano ad amare, i Weather Report e, soprattutto, la loro libertà musicale e il loro spirito avventuroso. Miroslav Vitous, contrabbassista di origine ceca, fu uno dei co-fondatori della band insieme a Joe Zawinul e a Wayne Shorter ...

Miroslav Vitous: Music of Weather Report

by Mark Sullivan
July 19, 2016

Bassist Miroslav Vitous was a founding member of Weather Report, making him one of the architects of the highly improvisational approach taken by the original band. On his earlier album Remembering Weather Report (ECM, 2009) he evoked the spirit of the old band and its collective improvisational style (characterized by keyboardist Joe Zawinul as “No one ...

Mehmet Sanlikol: What's Next?

by Jack Bowers
June 22, 2014

After listing the personnel (which varies on every track) for Turkish-born composer Mehmet Ali Sanlikol's new CD, What's Next?, there's scarcely room for a review. Well, perhaps a small one, starting with the fact that Sanlikol, a graduate of the Berklee School of Music and New England Conservatory, first studied classical piano with his mother, Fethiye ...

Nicolas Meier: Journey

by Chris May
March 1, 2010

Turkish music and jazz make compatible bedfellows, so it's curious that congress takes place so infrequently outside Turkey. In the late 1950s, pianist Dave Brubeck combined Turkish 9/8 rhythm patterns with classical rondo form and the blues to create “Blue Rondo A La Turk" on Time Out (Columbia, 1959). In the 1980s, Austrian guitarist Wolfgang Muthspiel ...

Take Five With Sinan Bakir

by AAJ Staff
July 22, 2009

Meet Sinan Bakir:Sinan Bakir is one of the most unique and exciting young jazz guitarists on the scene today. The sound that Sinan is striving for described often as fresh, clean and lively yet intense and full with emotion. Sinan Bakir is hailed not only as a virtuoso player, but also a masterful composer. ...

Anadolu

By Aydin Esen

Label: Columbia
Released: 1992
Track listing: Anadolu ; The Way In ; Song For Santisi ; All Of A Sudden; Love's Haunts ; Cafe Bouquet ; The Roll Of Time ; The Roll Of Time: Confidence In Dreams ; Crystalline ; Passages ; The Roll Of Time: Deeply Removed;