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Imagine there is a train line connecting from Istanbul to Berlin. Any time, any length. But uninterrupted. Imagine passing through non-existent realms through glass as it rushes by. Imagine that the images created in your mind of cities and places that are not reminiscent of cities give you a sense of familiarity. As the flow continues, you accumulate new moments and memories, mysterious and fluent codes that you have not experienced before flow in the back of your mind.
Yosef Gutman Levitt, a South African-born and Jerusalem-based musician, has released his first trio recording, Upside Down Mountain. Gutman’s claim in this album is to capture an open-hearted and instinctively melodic, sincere performance style. For this reason, he chooses his bass playing both traditionally and melodically but especially musical role.
When I look back at 2019 and remembering Between Two Worlds album, I remember listening to an album below my expectations when I check the credits…
23 years old bass phenom, Kinga Głyk, who is said to be the best Polish bass player of the new generation and a rising star of the music, will be on stage in CSO Ada Ankara on November 5th. Right before the concert, she had the courtesy to answer our questions. Her own words, unedited.
Morten Schantz is a Danish pianist and composer, born in 1980. He met the piano in the late 90s when he was a teenager. He toured five continents with his band JazzKamikaze, which he founded in 2005, and gained musical experiences. Passenger was recorded at Kole Studios in Copenhagen in May 2020, one of the most intense periods of the pandemic and isolation process, and released in September 16th 2022 via April Records. On the album, he is accompanied by his 15-year companions, double bassist Morten Ankarfeldt and drummer Janus Templeton.
Still in her early 20s, British saxophonist Emma Rawicz is a musician who has a great command of her instrument and truly loves and respects music. The audience watching Rawicz on the stage of the 32nd Akbank Jazz Festival at Akbank Sanat, where we went for the first time in a long time, on the evening of September 27, witnessed perhaps one of the most precious moments in modern jazz history. Because this is Rawicz’s first concert outside the UK. First of all, let’s congratulate for her success. More importantly, let’s thank the Akbank Jazz Festival for putting such a young musician on the festival stage by trusting her vision.
Having spent his 35 years-long career gloriously, very productively, pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba recorded another exquisite recording with Matt Brewer and Eric Harland, two great musicians of the highest caliber of their generation, after the Grammy-winning Skyline he recorded with two legends Ron Carter and Jack DeJohnette last year. If you ask me, this album is likely to receive Grammy nomination next year and very likely would win again. Especially the improvised solos are the kind that will showcase Rubalcaba’s flamboyant style.
Chicago based guitarist Tim Fitzgerald is a musician who admires Wes Montgomery very much. Is there anything more beautiful than walking by stepping on the steps of the musician you love? To this end, he has been working for more than 20 years to analyse Montgomery’s idiosyncratic, stylish and sensuous music.
Super Blue The London Sessions is a candidate to be a target for traditionalists who know Elling for his traditional jazz-related works. But Elling is a vocalist who has the courage to take the criticism to the fullest and walk his way confidently.
Sun Ra Arkestra have shared ‘Somebody Else’s Idea’, the lead single from their new album Living Sky, which will be released on 7th October via Omni Sound.
