DATE AND VENUE
4 July 2012, 22:30, Salon İKSV
EUROPEAN JAZZ CLUB
Tamer Temel Quintet feat. Matthias Pichler
Tamer Temel tenor, soprano saxophone
Serkan Özyılmaz piano
Eylül Biçer guitar
Cem Aksel drums
Matthias Pichler double bass
Tamer Temel went to Siena Masterclass Summer Course to study with the scholarship he received from the Europe Jazz Festival in 2005. He has performed at various festivals and jazz clubs. He received private lessons from Mark Turner, one of the most important saxophonists of our time. He released his first album Barcelona in 2010. The Austrian contrabass player Matthias Pichler who will share the stage with Tamer Temel in this first concert of the European Jazz Club series studied jazz and improvisation at Anton-Bruckner University. He has given concerts with musicians such as Wolfgang Muthspiel, Ingrid Jensen, Matthieu Michel, Mark Feldman, Didier Lockwood, Marc Copland and Doug Hammond. He won the Hans Koller Award in Austria in 2004 and 2006, as well as the International Double Bass Convention competition held in Berlin in 2010.
DATE AND VENUE
9 July 2012, 22:30, Salon İKSV
EUROPEAN JAZZ CLUB
Baki Duyarlar Quartet feat. Eric Vloeimans
Baki Duyarlar piano
Cem Aksel drums
Kağan Yıldız double bass
Erıc Vloeimans trumpet
One of the international jazz musicians of Turkey, pianist and composer Baki Duyarlar will meet with the Dutch trumpet virtuoso Eric Vloeimans with his own trio as part of the European Jazz Club concert series. Baki Duyarlar has collaborated with important musicians such as Randy Brecker, Ada Rovatti, Brian Lynch, Dick de Graff, Erkan Oğur, Bülent Ortaçgil and performed a wide range of musical styles with different bands such as OnQ Band and It Trio. Accompanying Baki Duyarlar Quartet in this concert will be Eric Vloeimans who has trod on a wide range from funk and rock to electronic and classical music with his trio called Gatecrash. Performing his music with a breathtaking technique, Vloeimans also uses several effects to enrich his trumpet-playing.
DATE AND VENUE
10 July 2012, 22:30, Salon İKSV
EUROPEAN JAZZ CLUB
Oğuz Büyükberber feat. Simon Nabatov, Wolter Wierbos & Tobias Klein
Oğuz Büyükberber clarinet, bass clarinet
Simon Nabatov piano
Wolter Wierbos trombone
Tobias Klein bass clarinet
Hot off the trail after their appearance at the North Sea Jazz Festival, Oğuz Büyükberber invites three leading European improvisers to Istanbul for an evening of abstract folksy chamber music filled with dramatic contrasts between dense virtuosity and intimate colours. Known in the international improvising scene, all of these maverick musicians play regularly in overlapping projects in Holland and Germany. This time Büyükberber sets in motion an unusual quartet that pits three winds against a piano. The repertoire will be Büyükberber’s unconventional improvisation structures that allow vast exploration. Be prepared for an extraordinary evening!
DATE AND VENUE
11 July 2012, 22:30, Salon İKSV
EUROPEAN JAZZ CLUB
Bilal Karaman feat. Lars Danielsson
Bilal Karaman guitar
Lars Danıelsson double bass, cello
One of the most talented young musicians of Turkey, Bilal Karaman is coming together with Lars Danielsson, one of the most inspiring bassists of the jazz world. Karaman participated to Önder Focan’s Jazz Group workshops and studied flamenko techniques with Doğan Canku, jazz guitar with Donovan Mixon and Wolfgang Muthspiel, Turkish music and fretless guitar with Erkan Oğur and advanced harmony and improvisation with Aydın Esen. He won the Nardis Jazz Guitar Competition in 2009. Collaborating with musicians such as Neşet Ruacan, Aydın Esen, Leon Parker, Jack Gregg, Gustav Lundgren and Ricky Ford in a variety of projects, the guitarist uses modals and melodic motifs, as well as modern harmonies and improvisations in his own compositions. Accompanying Karaman in this concert will be the Swedish contrabass and cello player Lars Danielsson, the founder of Lars Danielsson Quartet in 1980 along with David Liebman who had previously worked with Miles Davis. With this quartet, Danielsson released 10 albums and has given countless performances with famous jazz musicians such as Randy and Michael Brecker, John Scofield, Jack DeJohnette, Mike Stern, Billy Hart and Charles Lloyd.
DATE AND VENUE
17 July 2012, 22:30, Salon İKSV
EUROPEAN JAZZ CLUB
Ayşe Gencer Band feat. Dimitry Baevsky
Ayşe Gencer vocals
İmer Demirer trumpet
Cem Aksel drums
Ahmet Türkmenoğlu double bass
Serkan Özyılmaz piano
Dmitry Baevsky saxophone
Growing up in a family of musicians and starting her music career after winning the voice competition organised by TRT, jazz vocalist Ayşe Gencer will meet with the Russian alto saxophone player Dimitry Baevsky at Salon. Starting her professional career with Elvan Aracı, İmer Demirer, Nezih Yeşilnil, Cankut Özgül and pursuing her studies in Istanbul with her partner İmer Demirer, Ayşe Gencer has played at various international festivals and released her first album But Beautiful under aisha records in 2011. Dimitry Baevsky studied jazz music in St.Petersburg and New York. His first album, also featuring Cedar Walton, Jimmy Cobb and John Webber as contributors, was released in 2005. Releasing his second album in 2010 and the last in 2012, the musican has played at various large-scale festivals in Europe and America.
DATE AND VENUE
18 July 2012, 22:30, Salon İKSV
EUROPEAN JAZZ CLUB
Yahya Dai Quartet feat. Maciej Fortuna
Yahya Dai saxophones, EWI, electronics, percussions
Ercüment Orkut piano, electric piano, keyboards
Kağan Yıldız double bass
Ediz Hafızoğlu drums
Maciej Fortuna trumpet
Standing out as one of the prominent jazz musicians of Turkey, saxophone player and composer Yahya Dai will be hosting Maciej Fortuna, one of the most talented young jazz musicians of Poland, with his trio at Salon. Accompanied by Asiaminor founded in 1990, Dai has given numerous concerts in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Hungary, Greece, Cyprus, Spain and the USA. He won the third prize at the Joshua Redman Remix contest organised by acidplanet in 2002. The musician has collaborated with leading musicians of jazz together with Yahya Dai Quartet founded in 1999. With the addition of new band members in 2008, Yahya Dai Quartet released the album Ümitvar Mavi containing songs by Ercüment Erkut and Yahya Dai. Trumpeter and composer Fortuna was chosen as the New Hope of Jazz in 2010 and 2011 by the Jazz Forum magazine. The artist, who has performed several times in Europe and America, also released three albums with his trio.
