Burak Kaya (July, 1970) was born in Ankara, Turkey. He began playing classical guitar at age of 12. He played both classical guitar music and jazz standards seperately for a long period of time. Altho
After cutting his teeth on New York jazz for 17 years, an accomplished jazz guitarist Yavuz Akyazıcı, returned home to Istanbul to convert Turkey’s pop songs into popular jazz, the way American jazz m
Erkan Oğur was born on 17 April 1954, in Ankara, Turkey. He spent his childhood in Elazığ, eastern Turkey, As a result of encouragement to be a scientist by his father, he started to study chemical en
Özdemir Erdogan was born in Istanbul on June 17, 1940. His mother was a classical musician who played piano, and his uncle played piano and violin as well. The first training was taken with these chan
Timucin Sahin has been recognized as one of today’s truly unique voices of contemporary jazz music by publications such as San Francisco Bay Guardian, AllaboutJazz, Jazzwise, Downbeat and Jazz-Times a