Burak Bedikyan - No Strings Attached '2023

Tracks list

Tracklist:

1. Listen (06:05)
2. D-Obsessive (03:10)
3. Peut-Etre Encore (02:35)
4. TAO (Three As One) (05:17)
5. Explore (06:12)
6. Body And Soul (05:00)
7. D-Obsessive (Reprise) (03:12)
8. Ballad For The Neutral (08:57)


 more​Bedikyan first interested in Jazz during high school (Saint
Benoit French High School) with the commitment and passion to pursue a career as
a professional musician. Formal music education began in 1996 with distinguished
Turkish pianist & composer Aydin Esen where studies included modern harmony and
jazz improvisation. He attended the “Marmara University Faculty of
Economic and Administrative Sciences” in the same year. While studying
improvisational music, the pianist began expanding his harmonic base playing pop
and rock gigs accompanying some of the leading popular figures of Turkey.

In 2002 he received a full merit-based scholarship of music performance from the
“Istanbul Bilgi University” and heads began turning in his direction
from the Turkish jazz scene when he started playing primarily with his
professors and later on with international visiting artists such as Benny
Golson, Vincent Herring, Stefano DiBattista, Jim Rotondi, Dusko Goykovich, Kevin
Mahogany, Jenny Evans, Ricky Ford, Andy Middleton, Harvie S, Eric Revis,
Jean-Loup Lognon, Melba Joyce, Larry Price, Mark Alban Lotz to name but a few.

​The artist recorded his debut album “Circle of Life” in 2012
in NYC with internationally acclaimed artists, Chris Potter, Peter Washington
and Bill Stewart. Published worldwide in 2013 by the prestigious record label
SteepleChase Records, “Circle of Life” received positive feedback on
the international arena from critics, journalists, as well as fans.

​January 2015 gave birth to his second album as a leader. “Leap of
Faith” featuring another all-American line up including jazz greats Chris
Cheek, Ron McClure and Billy Drummond. As in his first album, Bedikyan presented
a set of original compositions rooted with the American jazz tradition but
embracing his European influences as well as his Turkish/Armenian heritage.

On October 2016 his third SteepleChase CD “Awakening“ is published
with the participation of the top-notch American jazzmen: Loren Stillman, Ugonna
Okegwo and Donald Edwards.

Burak Bedikyan signed up with Alessa Records for the publishing of his European
Quartet’s live album “Hybrid 4tet (Live at Amsec)” in
collaboration with Andy Middleton (s), Johannes Strasser (b) and Joris Dudli
(dr) as a by-product of a much successful European Tour in 2017.

​His first Trio recording (being his 5th album) featured veteran
musicians Jay Anderson (b) and Adam Nussbaum (dr). “New Beginning”
is released in October 2018 as a result of a spontaneous session. It received
great critical praise by the international jazz media as well as music
enthusiasts around the world.

​As a prolific composer, Burak Bedikyan’s 6th solo album
“Istanbul Junction” has been released in October 2019, presenting a
fresh repertoire of originals performed with his longtime collaborators Can
Kozlu (dr), Matthew Hall (b) and the talented Gabor Bolla (s).

2021 gave birth to an unexpected Solo Piano album consisting of a selection of
fully improvised pieces titled “Introspection”.

​Besides touring and performing worldwide with both his American and
European bands, he is also a highly active and respected figure in the field of
Music Education in both New York and New Jersey.



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