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Yahya Dai

Yahya Dai is a Saxophone, Ewi and Flute player born in 1963, in Ankara/Turkey. He is in Turkey's Jazz scene, for more than three decades. He started playing the soprano recorder in 1974. In 1981, he had his first alto saxophone while he was about to graduate as a technician. He trained saxophone himself, then started working with well known Turkish jazz musician Tuna Ötenel in Ankara. In 1990 he joined "Asiaminor”; one of the most significant ethnojazz project from Turkey. Dai joined the tours in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Hungary, Greece, Cyprus, Spain and USA with “AsiaMinor”. He served as a saxophonist in the Ankara Municipality City Orchestra in 1991 and 1992, also performed in several events with the Ankara State Opera and Ballet Orchestra

Panayir / Carnivalesque

By Yahya Dai

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: 1. Carla's Second Tango (C. Bley); 2. Letter to Crete; 3. Carnivalesque; 4. Story of Something; 5. Zeynep's Spitting Image; 6. Soledad/Solitude (Astor Piazzolla); 7. Letting Go; 8. Doo-Be-Ya; 9. Chocolate - Colored Song; 10. Golliwog's Back! (C. Debussy) Ove non indicato composizioni e arrangiamenti sono di Ayse Tütüncü

Ayse Tütüncü Trio: Panayir / Carnivalesque

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 30, 2007

Trio atipico sotto molteplici punti di vista, questo messo insieme dalla pianista Ayse Tütüncü. Innanzitutto, atipico per la nazionalità: non sono molte le formazioni turche alla ribalta sullo scenario internazionale - e, si osservi, questo bel lavoro è registrato nientemeno che per la Blue Note. Poi, atipico per la formazione, che vede due ance affiancate al ...