Traditional jazz trio

8 MP3 Songs
JAZZ: Avant-Garde Jazz, JAZZ: Swing/Big Band

Show all album songs: Old School Songs


Details:
I was born in Trabzon, Turkey in 1961 and grew up in Istanbul. I started out playing Mandolin and Accordion in fist grade.
I first became interested in playing bass upon hearing records by Jaco Pastorius, Scott LaFaro, Charlie Haden, Ray Brown, Bill Evans, Miles Davis, and Charlie Parker.
More recently I play played in Europe with different jazz groups.
In 1995 I made a move from Istanbul to Palm Beach, Florida with my wife Gul. I've been performing in South Florida since then as a freelance bassist. For the last 5 years I've done art shows almost every weekend ( as an artist) in season, so I'm not playing music as much as I did before. I spend most summer times in Istanbul making recordings and performing at jazz concerts.
Some performances:
With Group Telvin: "Jazz Made in Turkey" in Lincoln Center NY.NY. with Joe Lovano. North Sea Jazz Festival in Holland , Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, In Germany, Holland and Istanbul many Jazz festivals.
This is my first jazz album in US, call " Old School ". Imer Demirer Trumpet, Serkan Ozyilmaz Piano, and I play Double-bass. It is trio album. In one song Ayse Gencer sings in "Everything Happens to me" and Turgut Alp Bekoglu plays drum in "Always and Forever" Songs we had recorded in this album: All the things you are, All of you, Jordu, Always and forever, Everything happens to me, Blue Train, Scrapple from the apple and Bye Bye blackbird.