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Canadian Jazz Guitarist, Composer Orhan Demir was born in Turkey in 1954 on September 29th. In 1977 he left Turkey and came to Canada. Some of his earliest influences include the principal groups of the “1970`s jazz-fusion” era and afterwards the cream of the 1950`s and 1960`s , jazz stylists (John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Archie Shepp, Eric Dolphy, Ornette Coleman, Django Reinhardt, Charles Mingus, etc..).

His recordings received great reviews from music publications such as Jazz Times, Downbeat, Guitar World, Jazz Report, Jazz Now, Coda Magazine, Cadence, Jazz Hot, JamSphere, Planet Jazz, The New York City Jazz Record, etc..