İlhan Erşahin

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İlhan Fredrik Erşahin (* 1965 in Stockholm ) is a Swedish-Turkish fusion musician ( saxophone , also keyboards , composition ) and music producer .

Live and act

Erşahin grew up as the child of a Turkish father and a Swedish mother in his hometown and was initially interested in rock music , reggae and dub ; at the age of 16 he learned the saxophone. In 1986 he moved to the USA, where he briefly studied at Berklee College of Music . He soon moved to New York City, where he was tutored by Joe Lovano and John Purcell . Soon he was playing with Eddie Henderson , Wallace Roney , Kevin Hays , Ben Allison , Jeff Ballard and Cindy Blackman . He played with his own band at Sweet Basil on Sundays at lunchtime . In 1997 his first album, Our Song, appeared with Eddie Henderson, Doug Weiss , Jon Davis and Kenny Wollesen , followed by Home with Larry Grenadier and Wollesen.

In 2000 Erşahin changed its aesthetic. On the album Virgo , he brought in hip-hop poet Saul Williams , whom he combined with drummer Brian Blade , pianist Jon Davis, bassist Larry Grenadier and sample player Val Jeanty. In the band Wax Poetic he first worked with Norah Jones as a singer. Other musicians on the first record of this band, which was initially released on Atlantic Records , were Arto Tunçboyacıyan , Marlon Browden, Eddie Henderson, Kurt Rosenwinkel and Guyora Kats.

2002 opened Erşahin his own club Nublu on Avenue C. Besides Norah Jones sang there N'Dea Davenport , Saul Williams, Marla Turner and the Turkish singer Nile Karaibrahimgil with his band Wax Poetic , for album Harikalar Diyarı (Wonderland) also played the Clarinetist Hüsnü Şenlendirici . Then he founded his own label with Nublu Records . In 2006 his Nublu Orchestra made an album under the direction of Butch Morris , with whom Erşahin also worked on other projects. In 2008 he wrote the soundtrack for a television documentary about Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk . Since 2008 he has repeatedly invited European jazz musicians such as Erik Truffaz , Nils Petter Molvær or Ibrahim Maalouf to his Istanbul Sessions with musicians from the Istanbul scene such as Turgut Alp Bekoğlu in the studio in order to create “cinema for the ears” with them.

In 2009 Erşahin composed the soundtrack for Fatih Akin's section in the film New York, I Love You . In the same year he contributed to the trio I Led Three Lives with drummer Jochen Rückert and bassist Juni Booth . For his production Ilhan Ersahins Afternoons in Rio (2011) he gathered a group of mostly local musicians from Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, including Lurdez da Luz and Rodrigo Brandao from Mamelo Sound System , Thalma de Freitas, Junio ​​Barreto, China, Kassin, Fernando Catatau and Nina Becker. With his Istanbul Sessions he made guest appearances at jazz festivals in Turkey from 2012. Further productions in this style were created, most recently Solar Plexus (2018).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Discussion of the Solar Plexus
personal data
SURNAME Erşahin, İlhan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Erşahin, İlhan Frederik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish-Turkish fusion musician (saxophone, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm