Timuçin Şahin Trio / Avant-garde jazz

Timuçin Şahin Trio / Avant-garde jazz

Presented by Terraza 7. Tuesday, January 23rd 2024 at 8:00 pm.

$15: Cover charge for Mezzanine.

Featuring:

• Timuçin Şahin / 7 string fretless electric guitar
• Sam Minaie / Bass
• Kenny Grohowski / Drums

AboutTimuçin Şahin:

Timuci called “A nimble guitarist and a scintillating composer.” (New York Times), and his music described as "Very impressive, visceral yet also cerebral and feisty..”(Downbeat Magazine), is an innovative composer, improviser and band-leader with an extensive discography and performance background. His creative practice blends jazz, avant-garde, experimental, and electronic components into a powerful musical statement on collective musical freedom.

His unique sound on 7 string fretless electric guitar and his emotional content in his composing made him non-comparable and his music almost impossible to categorize.

Both his compositions and his playing on his double-neck guitar – his trademark – radiate an incomparable individualism. Guitar Player magazine wrote: “Sahin’s guitar playing soars in a confluence of high art and earthiness.”

He was awarded first prize at the prestigious Dutch Jazz Competition in 2001 and second prizes at the Jur Naessens Music Award in 2002, and Deloitte Jazz Award in 2006. His third record as a leader “BAFA” is widely regarded as one of the most unique and uncompromising jazz recordings of contemporary jazz of today.