Results for "Okan Ersan"

MUSICIAN Born: April 27, 1972

Okan Ersan

Okan Ersan’s Mediterranean roots and mindset have provided the springboard for a successful international career as a guitarist and composer. His innate ability to create complex harmonies that fuse into smooth melodies provide an inspiring experience for the listener. His work has earned accolades from his peers and across the music industry and his high-energy electric fusion appeals to audiences all over the world. Okan has headlined at prestigious International Jazz festivals including Leverkusener Jazztage, Penang Island Jazz Festival, Nanjing Jazz, Kansas City Jazz Festival, Carthage Jazztage, Aalener Jazz Festival, Ingolstadt Jazztage and more…A respected artist, he has collaborated with outstanding musicians such as Dave Weckl, Ernie Watts, Billy Paul, Rex Richardson, Fazıl Say, Joe Lynn Turner and Volkan Öktem. Okan Ersan is an experienced recording artist who is about to release his third album

ARTICLE: YEAR IN REVIEW January 1, 2020

Popular Tracks: 2019

By MICHAEL RICCI

All About Jazz tracks how often a featured song is heard, and the following represent the most popular in 2019. If you missed them the first time around, give them a listen now, and enjoy! After the Rain Teodross Avery After the Rain: A Night for Coltrane

ALBUM

Nibiru

By OKAN ERSAN

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2019
Track listing: Chapter I: 6EQUJ5 (Wow Signal); Chapter II: As Far Away As Possible; Chapter III: Deep Field; Chapter IV: Gravitational Waves; Chapter V: Transcending; Chapter VI: Nibiru; Chapter VII: Space Jungle – Anunnaki.

ARTICLE: ALBUM REVIEW August 13, 2019

Okan Ersan: Nibiru

By ROGER FARBEY

Guitarist Okan Ersan hails from Cyprus and was a featured soloist on his younger bassist brother Oytun Ersan's album Fusiolicious (Self Produced, 2019). On the outer space-inspired concept album Nibiru (named after the mythical planet) his jazz fusion quartet cooks a quite a solar storm. Each of the seven chapters charts a musical narrative related to ...

TRACK OF THE DAY June 1, 2019

It's Up To You

Album: A Reborn Journey
By OKAN ERSAN
Label: Muzikal Production
Released: 2014
Duration: 06:37

ALBUM

A Reborn Journey

By OKAN ERSAN

Label: Muzikal Production
Released: 2014
Track listing: Okan Ersan

NEWS: CONTEST July 1, 2011

Enter the "Okan Ersan - A Reborn Journey" Giveaway at All About Jazz!

All About Jazz members are invited to enter the “Okan Ersan - A Reborn Journey“ giveaway contest starting today. We'll select TEN winners at the conclusion of the contest on August 1st. Click here to enter the contest (Following Okan Ersan at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.) Good luck! Click here to read about ...

ARTICLE: TAKE FIVE WITH... June 9, 2011

Take Five With Okan Ersan

By OKAN ERSAN

Meet Okan Ersan: Born in 1972 on the Northern part of Cyprus, Okan Ersan had the distinctive opportunity to be influenced by the melodies of the east ethnic beats and roots of the oriental Mediterranean. Following his BA degree in classical music, Ersan then blended rock and jazz to create the eclectic fusion of ...

NEWS: RECORDING May 27, 2011

Okan Ersan's "A Reborn Journey"

Okan Ersan presented his passionate interpretation of life A Reborn Journey to the world, and as Dave Weckl cited, “A Reborn Journey has the potential to make a lot of noise in the world of jazz fusion- it's fresh and different!" FREE MP3: Download “Quantumising Myself" at AAJ now. em>A Reborn Journey was released at the ...