Kerem Görsev

Kerem Görsev is a Turkish jazz pianist, who plays & composes always faithful to the roots of jazz. This album is also like that; a classic quintet like Horace Silver's; Kerem on piano, Russell Gunn on trumpet, Marcus Strickland on tenor and alto saxophones, Eric Revis on bass, and Alvester Garnett on drums; they play listenable & enjoyable in this album. As all compositions belongs to Kerem, listeners will sometimes feel the nice and soft combination of Turkish modal melodies with American bop sentences; for me, this kind of fusion gives additional colors to the album. Arrangements are also beautiful and cleverly; and the absence I saw in this album is that; recording/mixing/mastering process can be done more sensitively; not an over-compressed album, but sounds some dull. ~O.D.

Cengiz Baysal is a Turkish jazz drummer, who began to play at the age of twelve. As being the house drummer for the prestigious Istanbul Jazz Center, he had the chance to work with great artists such as; Lee Konitz, Mark Murphy, Dave Samuels, Alan Harris, Eve Cornelius, Chip Crawford, Dena De Rose and Paula West.