10 Mayıs / May. 2016 P.tesi (21:30-00:30)
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Middleton & Bedikyan Project
Andy Middleton (ts, ss), Burak Bedikyan (p), Robert Jukic (b), Joris Dudli (d).
Middleton & Bedikyan Project dört uluslararası caz müzisyeninden oluşan ve kendi bestelerini çalan bir grup. İlk olarak 2014 yılında Viyanalı piyanist ve besteci Fritz Pauer’i anmak için organize edilen bir dizi konser için bir araya gelen dörtlü, usta Amerikalı saksofoncu Andy Middleton ve artık adını yurt dışına da duyurmuş olan piyanist ve besteci Burak Bedikyan’ın liderliğinde birlikteliklerini devam ettirme kararı aldı.
Giriş: 60.- TL, Öğrenci: 35.- TL
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Middleton / Bedikyan Project is a hybrid project presenting an all original repertoire featuring a dynamic band of four multinational jazzmen of the highest caliber. The quartet first performed in a series of concerts organized in the memory of Viennese pianist and composer Fritz Pauer on October 2014 in Istanbul and later decided to remain together for further collaborations under the leadership of the master American saxophonist/composer Andy Middleton and the internationally acclaimed Turkish pianist/composer Burak Bedikyan.
ANDY MIDDLETON (tenor & soprano sax)
Winner of the Outstanding Jazz Soloist of Down Beat Magazine, Best Soloist & Best Arranger of the 13th European Jazz Contest in Belgium, National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) grant and Brooklyn Arts Council performance grant Andy Middleton is a vituoso modern jazz saxophonist and composer who has warm and original tones on both tenor and soprano. He worked with Lionel Hampton, Bob Mintzer, Randy Brecker, and Maria Schneider while living in the United States, has long been a busy music educator.
Born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Middleton grew up in a musical family and began playing the alto sax at the age of 9. He began composing, met his first mentor jazz pianist Steve Rudolph and formed his first quartet while still in high school. He attended the University of Rochester from 1980 to 1982, then the University of Miami from 1982 – 1987 where he earned a Bachelor’s degree in jazz saxophone with a Magna cum Laude status and Master’s degree in jazz composition, studying with Gary Campbell, Gary Lindsay, Gary Keller, Whit Sidener and Ron Miller. Colleagues from the Miami area include Randy Bernsen as well as UM classmates Andy Snitzer, Jim Trompeter, Walter White, Rick Margitza, Ed Calle, Tim Mitchell, Teddy Kumpel, Mike and Pete Abbott, Chip McNeill, Andy Weinzler, Mike Scaglione, Mike and Nicki Orta, Pete McGuinness, Jason Carder, John Hart and Leif Johansen, among others.
Middleton moved to the New York City area in 1987 and began to play with many different musicians and ensembles, including the Bob Mintzer Big Band, the Lionel Hampton Big Band (who recorded a composition he wrote with his brother Rob Middleton entitled “Two Brothers” on “Cookin’ in the Kitchen” and the Maria Schneider Jazz Orchestra. He co-founded the collective big band The Newyorkestra with Pete McGuinness, Rob Middleton, Steve Kenyon and Dave Stoler as well as founding his long-running quartet featuring at various times guitarists Ben Monder and Mike Abbott, drummers John Hollenbeck (musician), Owen Howard and Pete Abbott, bassists Chuck Bergeron, Scott Colley and Peter Herbert, and pianists Henry Hey, Andy Ezrin, and David Berkman.
Middleton’s first CD, “Acid Rain”, featuring Joey Calderazzo, Mike Abbott, Peter Hebert and Pete Abbott, produced by David Liebman and recorded by Jim Anderson was released in 1991 on the French label Owl Records. Owl Records producer Jean-Jacques Pussiau released his second CD, “Terra Infirma” in 1995 on EMI France, again produced by David Liebman and featuring the quartet of Middleton, Canadian pianist Renee Rosnes, American bassist Paul Imm, and drummer Alan Jones augmented by a horn section including trumpeter Chris Rogers, trombonist Pete McGuinness and bass clarinetist Steve Kenyon. This CD began his interest in composing medium ensemble music. Middleton has recorded eight albums under his own leadership.
“There is one soloist who truly stands apart from the rest of the crowd, and that is Andy Middleton” Saxophone Journal, USA. Time Out New York has written that he is “an ace saxophonist, a generously skilled arranger and a socially dedicated artist”, while the New York Times hails Middleton as “an accomplished composer as well as a smart post-bop tenor saxophonist.“ As a leader he has recorded with Dave Holland and Ralph Towner, Renee Rosnes, Joey Calderazzo, and Kenny Wheeler and worked as a sideman with Lionel Hampton, Bob Mintzer, Randy Brecker, Adam Nussbaum and Maria Schneider, among others. “Andy Middleton represents the best of a new generation of jazz musicians.” – David Liebman “Here is improvising and writing in its best form – really pretty amazing!” Michael Brecker
BURAK BEDIKYAN (pianist / composer)
A native of Istanbul, Burak Bedikyan is one of the foremost piano players of his native country as a leader and a highly sought after sideman for a variety of American and European Jazz artists thanks to his musicality and stylistic versatility. He recorded his debut album “Circle of Life” in 2012 in NY with internationally acclaimed artists; Chris Potter, Peter Washington and Bill Stewart. Published worldwide in 2013 by the prestigious record label SteepleChase Records, “Circle of Life” received positive feedback on the international arena from critics, journalists, as well as fans. January 2015 gave birth to the artist’s second album as a leader: “Leap of Faith” featuring another all American line up including jazz greats Chris Cheek, Ron McClure and Billy Drummond. As in his first album, Bedikyan presented a set of original compositions rooted with the American jazz tradition but embracing his European influences as well as his Turkish/Armenian heritage.
“Pianist Burak Bedikyan’s style bops, chops and drops with a melodic flair all his own”
Eric Wendell / Hot House Jazz Magazine
“Whether Bedikyan manages to break out with a fully distinctive sound in the future is open to debate, but this effort leaves no doubt that he’s got the chops, taste and range to do so-here’s hoping he lets more of his imagination run wild”
Peter Margasak / DOWNBEAT
“Following up on his quartet album Circle Of Life (which featured Chris Potter on tenor), Leap of Faith is a strong step forward. Burak Bedikyan (while hinting in spots at McCoy Tyner and Bill Evans) shows a great deal of originality in both his playing and his writing. Leap Of Faith, an excellent example of modern jazz of today, is highly recommended”
Scott Yanow / LA Jazz Magazine
“With a powerful technique flowing from the McCoy Tyner sound decorated with gestures towards Eastern modality while also drawing on the tradition of the Romantic composers the arranging and quartet’s spatial awareness always lets the music breathe here”
Stephen Graham / Marlbank
ROBERT JUKIC (bass)
Bassist, composer, arranger and producer Robert Jukič is one of Slovenia’s most versatile and fruitful musicians. There are eleven records under his name spanning from different styles of jazz to classical and world music, from alternative pop to chanson as well as traditional blues, folk and country music. As a bassist or composer/arranger he is featured on over 60 records with other artists proving his musical range. An eclectic, constantly self-reinventing artist.
A long list of performers and groups he has worked with as an instrumentalist and composer is virtually boundless – in terms of national or musical boundaries alike. His full sound enriched the recordings of many constellations and their conceptions Mario Gonzi, Adrien Mears, Owen Hart JR., Oliver Kent, Flip Phillip, Ed Partyka, Martin Reiter, Renato Chicco, Jonathan Blake, Nicole Henry, Antoine Drye, Jim Rotondi, Greg Tardy, Ernesto Simpson, Owen Howard, Howard Curtis, Andy Middleton, Femi Temowo, Deborah Brown, Pietro Iodice, Miles Griffith, Danny Grisset, Sheila Cooper, Steve Klink, Jasper Bloom, Stephane Spira, Dusko Goykovich, Daniele d`Agaro, Tony Pancella, Rob Bargad, European Movement Jazz Orchestra, Generations international youth band, Big Band RTV Slovenia, etc…
JORIS DUDLI (drums)
Joris has been a steady member of the Vienna Art Orchestra and the Art Farmer Quintet from 1979 to 1985. After moving to the US in 1986, he has performed and recorded with many of the great jazz musicians of the world: The Zawinul Syndicate, Benny Golson, Curtis Fuller, Vincent Herring, Johnny Griffin, Mullgrew Miller, Jeremy Pelt, Clifford Jordan, Joe Lovano, Joe Henderson, Eddie Henderson, George Garzone and many more.
Music Charge: 60.-TL
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