Bora Çeliker and quartet perform at Asai Khai, January 23
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Saturday, January 17
Brenda Berin Quintet
Vocalist Brenda Berin, trained in the USA, is known for having founded the ‘Authentic Anatolian Project’ together with some of Turkey’s finest jazz musicians, with whom she produced an archive album. In 2013 she released an album entitled ‘Sakın Ağlama’ (‘Please Don’t Cry’) together with world-famous drummer Dave Weckl; it featured contributions from Grammy Award-winning composer, producer, audio engineer and pedagogue George Whitty. Her single ‘Midnite’, released by Simplastique Records, was selected for inclusion in Ibiza Chillout Session Vol. 7. She has taken part in projects with many famous musicians in Turkey and elsewhere, among these being Erik Truffaz, Talvin Singh and Jean-Pierre Smadj; meanwhile, she has made a large number of recordings for films, TV series and jingles in he. Her repertoire is a mixture of soul, jazz, R&B and funk, and her fellow-performers on this occasion will be Eylem Pelit (bass guitar), Barış Mert Peker (piano), Kaan Karadavut (trumpet) and Erkan Sönmez (drums).
Tickets from biletinial
Prices: 1000 TL (upper floor), 1200 TL (lower floor)
Friday January 23
Bora Çeliker Quartet feat. İmer Demirer & Ateş Tezer
Guitarist Bora Çeliker, who is also a singer, is both a highly experienced performer of mainstream jazz and blues (he pursued postgraduate studies in Performance at Bilgi University, İstanbul) and a gifted improviser. At university in Ankara, he founded blues groups by the name of ‘The Crawling Snakes’, ‘The Jukes’ and ‘The King Bees’. Having played mainly blues up to that time, in 1999 he launched out into jazz, playing in a group led by Janusz Szprot, a Polish musician who had come to Ankara to head up the Jazz Department of Bilkent University. Two years later, in 2001, he started playing in the Alan Ginter Quartet with the legendary Turkish pianist, saxophonist and composer Tuna Ötenel. In 2005, he performed with the guitarist Sarp Maden as the opening act at a Jethro Tull concert in İstanbul’s Harbiye Open-Air Theatre. On this occasion he will be accompanied by trumpet-player İmer Demirer, a musician of enormous creativity and originality, as well as by drummer Ateş Tezer.
Tickets from biletinial
Prices: 1000 TL (upper floor), 1200 TL (lower floor)
Bora Çeliker and quartet perform at Asai Khai, January 23
