Jazz In Turkey

	Jazz In Turkey ''Jazz in Turkey'' is a 2013 documentary directed by Batu Akyol. The film explores the condition, evolution, and interaction of Turkish jazz music and its musicians, in parallel to Turkish history. Filming for the documentary commenced in 2011, featuring interviews with more than 50 musicians, producers and academians including Terence Blanchard, İlhan Erşahin İlhan Erşahin is a Swedish-Turkish musician and bar owner. Raised in Stockholm, he has been based in New York City since 1990. As a musician, Erşahin has performed and recorded with various musicians as well as his own projects/bands, Wax Poet ..., Herbie Hancock and Cüneyt Sermet. The film premiered in Turkey on July 14, 2013. Interviewees Hakan Atala, Murat Beşer, Terence Blanchard, Sadettin Davran, Craig Dicker, Baki Duyarlar, Dr. JB Days, İlhan Erşahin, Feridun Ertaşkan, Muvaffak Falay, Emin Fındıkoğlu, Önder Focan, Zuhal Focan, Bozkurt İlham Gencer, Kerem Görsev, Selen Gülün, Ediz Hafızoğlu, He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Ilhan Ersahin İlhan is a Turkish male given name and a surname. It is also used as a feminine given name. Notable with the name include: Given name * İlhan Eker (born 1983), Turkish footballer * İlhan İrem (1955–2022), Turkish singer * İlhan Koman (1921–1986), Turkish sculptor * İlhan Mansız (born 1975), Turkish football player * İlhan Mimaroğlu (1926–2012), Turkish composer * Ilhan Omar (born 1982), American politician * İlhan Onat (1929–2013), Turkish chess player * İlhan Parlak (born 1987), Turkish footballer * İlhan Şeşen (1948–2025), Turkish musician, songwriter, and actor * İlhan Usmanbaş (1921–2025), Turkish composer Surname * Adem Ilhan (born 1977), Turkish-English musician * Attilâ İlhan (1925–2005), Turkish poet * Çolpan İlhan (1936–2014), Turkish cinema and theatre actress * John Ilhan (1965–2007), Australian businessman * Marsel İlhan (born 1987), Turkish tennis player * Müfide İlhan (1911–1996), Turkish mayor See also * Emirhan İlkhan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	İlham Gencer Bozkurt İlham Osman Gencer (30 August 1921 – 24 May 2023) was a Turkish jazz pianist, singer and composer. Life and career A child prodigy, İlham started playing piano as a child under the guidance of his mother, and never received any formal musical training. He held his first concert and made his first composition ''İlham Vals'' when he was 5 years old. He started his professional career in 1944, and between 1949 and 1963 he hosted several musical programs on . In 1960 İlham opened a popular night club in the Istanbul district of Şişli, the ''Çatı Club'', where he contributed to launch the careers of several singers and musicians. His 1961 song "Bak Bir Varmış Bir Yokmuş", a cover of Bob Azzam's "C'est écrit dans le Ciel", is regarded as the first pop song recorded in Turkish language. In 2018, he was the subject of a biography, ''Bozkurt İlhami Gencer'le Sanat ve Siyaset Bir Bir Birada'' ("Art and politics at the same time with Bozkurt İlhami Gencer") wr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol (born September 24, 1974) is a Grammy nominated Turkish-American composer and CMES Harvard University fellow (2013–15) who is a jazz pianist and singer that also performs a number of Near and Middle Eastern instruments as well as the keyboardless synthesizer Continuum Fingerboard and the ''SANLIKOL Renaissance 17'', a digital microtonal keyboard designed and conceived by himself. The Boston Globe calls Sanlıkol's music "colorful, fanciful, full of rhythmic life, and full of feeling" and "not touristy, but rather sophisticated, informed, internalized", "...and he (Sanlıkol) is another who could play decisive role in music’s future in the world." He is a full-time faculty member at the New England Conservatory (NEC). He is also the director of the Intercultural Institute at NEC and the project director/curator of Nilüfer Municipality Dr. Hüseyin Parkan Sanlıkol Musical Instruments Museum. Biography Early life The son of two Turkish-Cypriots, Mehm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Selçuk Sun Selcuk Sun (20 February 1934-22 March 2016) was a Turkish double bass player and one of the most significant jazz musicians in Turkey. He was born on 20 February 1934 in Istanbul. He graduated from Ankara State Conservatory and went on to pursue his interest in jazz music. He met Muvaffak "Maffy" Falay whom he played with. Later he worked with Dizzy Gillespie (during his world tour in 1956), Phil Woods, Joe Gordan, Frank Rehak, Ernie Wilkens and Quincy Jones. During Dave Brubeck's tour in Europe and Asia, Selcuk Sun played with the Dave Brubeck Quartet in Ankara in 1958. He received a Scholarship from the Berklee School of Music, but could not attend due to his military service. In the early 1960s he lived in Oslo and Copenhagen. In Copenhagen he lived for six months and played at the Jazzhus Montmartre with the pianist Bud Powell and the tenor saxophonist Lucky Thompson. The same year he came second at the "Young Double Bassists" Competition after Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Ahmet Yeşiltepe Ahmet Yeşiltepe (born March 1968) is a Turkish journalist, radio host, and television presenter. He reported on many international events such as the Bosnian War, Kosovo War, and the September 11 attacks. He worked as a correspondent for the NTV television channel, presenting various news programs including the "Main News" program. Besides journalism, he has also produced and hosted documentary programs focusing on history and culture, especially on topics related to Central Asia and the origins of Turkic people. Early life Yeşiltepe was born in 1968. He studied Cinema and Television at Anadolu University. He began his television reporting career at TRT in 1992, covering various international events, including the Bosnian War. After returning to Turkey from Bosnia, he received a scholarship to study media marketing in London and later in New York. During his studies abroad, he continued his career in journalism. He served as the New York City and Washington, DC corresponde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Turkish Documentary Films Turkish may refer to: * Something related to Turkey Turkish language * Turkish alphabet Turkish people, a Turkic ethnic group and nation * Turkish citizen, a citizen of Turkey *** Turkish communities in the former Ottoman Empire * The word that Iranian Azerbaijanis use for the Azerbaijani language * Ottoman Empire (Ottoman Turkey), 1299–1922, previously sometimes known as the Turkish Empire ** Ottoman Turkish, the Turkish language used in the Ottoman Empire * Turkish Airlines, an airline * Turkish music (style), a musical style of European composers of the Classical music era * Turkish, a character in the 2000 film '' Snatch'' See also * * * Turk (other) * Turki (other) * Turkic (other) * Turkey (other) * Turkiye (other) * Turkish Bath (other) * Turkish population, the number of ethnic Turkish people in the world * Culture of Turkey * History of Turkey ** History of the Republic of Turkey * Turkic languages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Documentary Films About Jazz Music And Musicians A documentary film (often described simply as a documentary) is a nonfiction Film, motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". The American author and Media studies, media analyst Bill Nichols (film critic), Bill Nichols has characterized the documentary in terms of "a filmmaking practice, a cinematic tradition, and mode of audience reception [that remains] a practice without clear boundaries". Research into information gathering, as a behavior, and the sharing of knowledge, as a concept, has noted how documentary movies were preceded by the notable practice of documentary photography. This has involved the use of singular Photograph, photographs to detail the complex attributes of History, historical events and continues to a certain degree to this day, with an example being the War photography, conflict-related photography achieved by popular figures such as Mathew Brady during the Am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Music Of Turkey The roots of traditional music in Turkey span across centuries to a time when the Seljuk Turks migrated to Anatolia and Persia in the 11th century and contains elements of both Turkic and pre-Turkic influences. Much of its modern popular music can trace its roots to the emergence in the early 1930s drive for Westernization. Ashik, Âşık, Aytysh, atışma, singing culture, wedding dance continued way of having fun with family and friends as before. Due to industry music and music in daily life aren't same. Turkish people including new generations have nostalgia music culture., pp 396-410. With the assimilation of immigrants from various regions the diversity of musical genres and musical instrumentation also expanded. Turkey has also seen documented folk music and recorded popular music produced in the ethnic styles of Music of Greece, Greek, Music of Armenia, Armenian, Music of Albania, Albanian, Music of Poland, Polish, Music of Azerbaijan, Azeri and Jewish communities, among ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	2013 Films The following tables list films released in 2013. Three popular films ('' Top Gun'', ''Jurassic Park'', and '' The Wizard of Oz'') were re-released in 3D and IMAX. Evaluation of the year Richard Brody of ''The New Yorker'' said, "The year 2013 has been an amazing one for movies, though maybe every year is an amazing year for movies if one is ready to be amazed by movies. It's also a particularly apt year to make a list of the best films. Making a list is not merely a numerical act but also a polemical one, and the best of this year's films are polemical in their assertion of the singularity of cinema, as well as of the art form's opposition to the disposable images of television. The 2013 crop comprises an unplanned, if not accidental, collective declaration of the essence of the cinema, an art of images and sounds that, at their best, don't exist to tell a story or to tantalize the audience (though they may well do so) but, rather, to reflect a crisis in the life of the filmm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]