Ayşe Tütüncü

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Ayşe Tütüncü (* 1960 in Adana ) is a Turkish jazz pianist and composer .

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Tütüncü began playing the guitar at the age of five . From the age of seven she received piano lessons. She first learned classical Turkish music before discovering jazz . In 1983 she founded her first, world music- oriented group, Mozaik , which existed until 1995 and released four albums, which received great attention in Turkey. In addition, she played with the group Kömür , in which the focus was more on improvisation .

In 1995 she founded the Ayse Tütüncü Piano Percussion Ensemble , which received critical acclaim throughout Europe because of its unusual line-up with piano, various percussion instruments and bass clarinet and its album Variations (1999). It presented its program at many European festivals, such as the North Sea Jazz Festival or the Traumzeit Festival . With the clarinetist Oğuz Büyükberber and the saxophonist Yahya Dai, she then founded the Ayse Tütüncü Trio, which released its debut album Carnivalesque on Blue Note Records in 2005. With this combo and her quartet she performed at the Moers Festival , at the Bremen Jazzahead and at Women in Jazz in Halle.

Tütüncü also worked with the songwriter Bülent Ortaçgil , the folk group Yeni Türkü and the rock band Bulutsuzluk Özlemi . She also accompanied the singer Sumru Agiryürüyen and appeared in 1999 with Butch Morris .

She also wrote music for films and theater productions and taught at the Istanbul Music Academy.

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SURNAME Tütüncü, Ayşe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish jazz musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Adana