Anadolu
Context
Title track of the first album by Turkish pianist Aydın Esen for Columbia, produced by George Butler. The record brings together, among others, Dave Liebman, Bob Mintzer, Jon Faddis, Dave Holland, Anthony Jackson and Peter Erskine. Esen, who studied at Berklee, the New England Conservatory and Juilliard, had won the Martial Solal piano competition in Paris in 1989.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Turkish and Anatolian jazz, Fusion, jazz-rock, jazz-funk. Among the origins and influences of Turkish and Anatolian jazz: Modal, Free jazz.