Results for "İlhan Erşahin"

Ilhan Ersahin

Ilhan Ersahin is a saxophone instrumentalist, composer and music producer of Turkish origin, born in Sweden and living in New York. He owns the New York jazz club Nublu and his own record label under the same name. His "Wonderland", recorded in İstanbul and New York comes forward as the vigilant reflection and expression of ties with Istanbul and his interest in Turkish music. A magical togetherness is evoked through the collaboration of musicians from Turkey and from New York. The former Anatolian-jazz collective Laço Tayfa's renowned clarinetist Hüsnü Şenlendirici, percussionist Mehmet Akatay and quanun-player Nuri Lekesizgöz along with the unconventional voices of new generation Istanbul vocalists like Nil Karaibrahimgil, Bora and the 14 year old Dilara are featured on the album as well as Erşahin's long-time accomplices, Matt Pennman on bass, Jochen Reuckert on drums and Danish guitarist/computerized FX-loops-samples wrangler Thor Madsen and bassist

Alfa Jazz Fest 2017

by Thomas Conrad
July 11, 2017

Alfa Jazz Fest 2017 Lviv, Ukraine June 23-27, 2017 Jazz festivals are different in Europe. There are more of them, and they are crucial to the economic viability, social solidarity and creative evolution of the jazz art form. Many European towns that host their own annual jazz events seem like ...

Istanbul Sessions: Istanbul Underground

by James Nadal
June 22, 2016

A secretive, renaissance saxophonist who travels in a multi-ethnic, trans-cultural dimension, Ilhan Ersahin embodies all aspects of the particular blend of cross-pollinated musical styles he produces. Started in 2002, his New York City club and record label Nublu, established his pioneering reputation, and he continues on a creative tear. Istanbul Sessions was formed in 2008, producing ...

Ai Confini tra Sardegna e Jazz - XXX Edizione

by Paolo Peviani
September 11, 2015

Sant'Anna Arresi, 01-06.09.2015 Bentornato Butch A Sant'Anna Arresi, Butch Morris era di casa. In occasione della XXX Edizione, il festival Ai Confini tra Sardegna e Jazz gli ha reso giustamente e doverosamente omaggio costruendo una programmazione completamente incentrata sulla sua figura. C'era la Nublu Orchestra (Kenny Wollesen, ...

Rigas Ritmi 2015

by Bruce Lindsay
July 14, 2015

Rigas Ritmi Riga, Latvia July 1-4, 2015 The 15th anniversary of Rigas Ritmi was celebrated in fine style in Latvia's beautiful capital city. Māris Briežkalns, the festival's artistic director, had programmed Latvian artists and internationally-known musicians in a mix of large and small, old and new, venues. From the mediaeval ...

Akbank Jazz Festival 2013, Istanbul

by Daniela Veronesi
February 28, 2014

Akbank Jazz Festival Istanbul 25,09-10.10.2013 Akbank Jazz Festival, 23. edizione, Istanbul, 25 settembre-10 ottobre, e oltre: rassegna di ampio respiro, quindici giorni di proposte tra jazz e dintorni, evento culturale che richiama uno zoccolo duro di aficionados, ma che sa anche aggregare pubblici diversi in luoghi diversi. Ampie sale ...

Garana Jazz Festival 2013

by Adriana Carcu
July 31, 2013

Garana Jazz FestivalWolf's MeadowGarana, RomaniaJuly 11-14, 2013For four days each summer, a village in the Western Carpathians becomes the Mecca for the Romanian jazz fans, and an ever-growing number of Europeans. For the 17th time the Bohemian colony Garana (Wolfsberg is its German name) has hosted an event of growing importance ...

Garana Jazz Festival, Garana, Romania, July 12-15 2012

by Adriana Carcu
August 10, 2012

Garana Jazz FestivalGarana, RomaniaJuly 12-15, 2012The 16th edition of the Garana open-air Jazz Festival gathered over 5,000 jazz lovers in a glade called the Wolf's Clearing, in the southern Carpathians. The weather conditions were excellent--a factor that should not be taken for granted; in Garana, it has rained during each of the last ...

Ilhan Ersahin's Istanbul Sessions: New Album "Night Rider" Available November 22

November 12, 2011

..."a highly distinctive new sound that connects the dense modal funk of Miles Davis' Agartha group with the dervish whirl of Turkish and middle-eastern melodies and spikes it with a potent shot of dub electronics." —Jazzwise Magazine, UK In the grand continuum of the ever progressing Nublu Sound, acclaimed saxophonist and composer Ilhan Ersahin presents Night ...

Enjoy Jazz: Mannheim, Germany, October 2-November 18, 2011, Week 3

by Adriana Carcu
October 31, 2011

Week 1-2 | Week 3-4 | Week 5-7 Enjoy Jazz Festival Heidelberg/Mannheim/Ludwigshafen, Germany October 2-November 18, 2011 Bugge Wesseltoft & Henrik Schwarz The black and white stage design gave more than a hint of the dynamic performance pianist Bugge Wesseltoft and DJ Henrik Schwarz were about to ...