Maffy Falay

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Ahmet Muvaffak "Maffy" Falay (born August 30, 1930 in Ankara ) is a Turkish modern jazz trumpeter .

Live and act

Falay studied trumpet and piano at the conservatory in his hometown. In 1956 he led the band that Dizzy Gillespie welcomed at Ankara Airport, who was then enthusiastic about the qualities of his colleague and recommended him to go to the United States. In 1961 he played in the ensembles of Benny Bailey , Åke Persson , Phil Woods , Sixten Eriksson and Quincy Jones . In 1962 Falay became a member of the Kurt Edelhagen Orchestra , which at that time was working for the WDR in Cologne . With the orchestra in May 1964 he took part in a well-known tour through the Soviet Union . He was also a member of the Kenny Clarke / Francy Boland Big Band , with whom he recorded six albums by 1966.

In the mid-1960s he moved to Sweden, where he worked in the Radio Jazz Orchestra under Harry Arnold . He also worked with Lars Gullin and George Russell . During this time he was already playing Turkish music for Don Cherry and then practicing free improvisation on Turkish melodies with him. Cherry interpreted this material in 1969 with Okay Temiz and other musicians in Ankara; Falay was also a member of Cherry's Organic Music Society . In 1970 he was a member of Dizzy Gillespie's Reunion Orchestra for an extensive European tour . He also played with Bernt Rosengren , Monica Zetterlund , Bengt-Arne Wallin , Reebop Kwaku Baah and Arne Domnérus . In 1971 he founded his band Sevda with violinist Salih Baysal , Gunnar Bergsten and Temiz and Rosengren, in which he an ethno-jazz played on the basis of Turkish music before he oriented in the 1980s to a hard-bop quintet returned to the musician like Kwaku Baa, Rosengren, Elvan Araci or Åke Johansson were involved.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Thomas Mau: Das Orchester Kurt Edelhagen - recordings from 1962. WDR 3, March 17, 2009.

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personal data
SURNAME Falay, Maffy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Falay, Ahmet Muvaffak (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Ankara