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Serra Bilgincan

Born: February 10, 1998

Serra Bilgincan is a composer and vocalist of jazz music based in Istanbul, Turkey. In 2017, she got accepted to Berklee College of Music, but decided to take a non-academic and more intuitive route into music and studied architecture at Central Saint Martins instead. Having trained in classical piano at her young ages, she became a fan of jazz music in her teen years. After some years of personal practice, her debut single 'Transience' has just been released. Three other tracks (Strange Proximity, Convergence, and EXCR) are currently undergoing mixing and mastering, and all four will make up her first EP project 'Disintegration'.

Caz Plak Reissues Okay Temiz's Landmark Album, 'Drummer Of Two Worlds'

January 23, 2024

One of Turkish Jazz's most sought-after and sampled records is coming back to life. Caz Plak's partnership with notable jazz drummer Okay Temiz reaches a third stage with the long-awaited reissue of his landmark album, Drummer of Two Worlds. Initially released in Turkey, Scandinavia, and the United States in 1980, Caz Plak's modern reintroduction of a ...

Peter DiCarlo

For nearly two decades, Peter DiCarlo has established himself in a myriad of worlds. Currently based in Izmir, Turkey, Peter is an accomplished saxophonist with a strong tone and style that is distinctly his own. In addition to his focus on performance and composition, he thrives in the world of music education. Peter balances his passion for teaching while also maintaining a rigorous practice schedule. DiCarlo has performed with Scott Wendholt, Rich Perry, Claire Daly, Jim Ridl, Tom DiCarlo, Keisel Jiménez, Chris Parker, Jerson Trinidad, Ralph Bowen, Sean Jones, Stanley Cowell, Vic Juris, Kenny Davis, Mike Richmond and Julius Tolentino. Peter had the utmost pleasure of performing with the legendary artist Ray Charles at two televised benefit concerts.

Caz Plak To Release Don Cherry Trio 'The ORTF Recordings Paris 1971' On Vinyl

September 8, 2023

The second chapter of Caz Plak's ambitious Turkish Jazz Trilogy will be released next month with three region-specific vinyl LP releases of The ORTF Recordings Paris 1971 by Don Cherry Trio, in line with Caz Plak's curatorial efforts in showcasing the far-reach of Turkish Jazz's influence. The Istanbul-based label has licensed two recordings of Don Cherry's ...

Eda And: Live in Hamburg

by Arthur R George
October 8, 2022

Turkish pianist Eda And went large in her ambitious debut CD, Augmented Life (Kalan), in 2018, leading a contemporary jazz big band in jny: Istanbul through compositions and arrangements that she originally created for the NDR Bigband in jny: Hamburg, Germany. She has returned, scaled back and in a completely different direction, solo, with Live in ...

Güç Başar Gülle

Born: October 14, 1977

Born in 1977, Gülle is the leading Turkish artist of his generation who attracted the attention of art critics and music lovers with his innovative music language. Gulle’s unique style derives from his comprehensive knowledge of Ottoman-Turkish music, Jazz and Contemporary music. Güç Başar Gülle earned his master’s degree from İstanbul Technical University Turkish Conservatory of Turkish Music in 2004, after completing his undergraduate studies in Boğaziçi University Philosophy department. Gulle pursued his studies at Berklee College of Music in 2004 and completed four years Jazz Composition Department’s program within two years

Out of the Roma Villages of Turkey, Clarinet Reigns Beyond Its Traditions

by Arthur R George
November 7, 2020

The clarinet, foundational for jazz from Sidney Bechet unto Eric Dolphy, remains in strong use in the indigenous Roma music of the eastern Mediterranean. Elsewhere in the world clarinet generally has been moved aside by saxophone's bigger sound. But in the Balkans, Greece, and Turkey, clarinet provides jazz shadings to traditional music, speaks a range of ...

American Frederick Thomas: 'The Black Russian' Who Connected Jazz To The Margins Of Asia

by Arthur R George
September 1, 2020

The child of former slaves, Frederick Bruce Thomas' New York Times obituary called him “the sultan of jazz," for the jazz palace he founded in Constantinople (now jny: Istanbul) after World War I, a jazz borderland beyond even the music's early jny: Paris outpost. He was hosting bands in Constantinople in 1921 even before Louis Armstrong ...

Hoca Nasreddin

Active since: December 1, 2007

Hoca Nasreddin: Serkan Şener (kaval) Nikolai Galen (voice) Robert Reigle (tenor saxophone) We see ourselves as musical nomads, spurred on by a wanderlust which makes us restless in familiar fields. The same spirit which holds that musical conventions need to be challenged and reinvented - out of which a different kind of music might emerge, one unfettered by predictability yet rich in musicality, one which resonates in the now. Our emphasis is on improvising with timbre, with texture, with the complexity, colour and nature of sound itself. Making working with timbre as essential to a modern notion of musicality as rhythm, melody and harmony

Burak Kaya

Born: July 24, 1970

Burak Kaya (1970) was born in Ankara, Turkey. He began playing classical guitar at age of 12. He played both classical guitar music and jazz standards seperately for a long period of time. Although he took some guitar and harmony lessons, he's mostly self-taught. Kaya had a strong influence of world music, latin jazz and Anatolian traditional musics in his style. Instead of using amplified guitars he prefers to play nylon string classical guitar which creates an natural acoustic sound. He plays mostly in small groups such as jazz trios including double bass and percussions or duo instrument projects