İLHAN ERŞAHIN

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Born in Stockholm to Swedish and Turkish parents but raised mostly in Turkey, Ilhan Ersahin fell in love with jazz growing up and moved to the U.S. after high school to pursue a career as a jazz saxophonist. Ersahin studied at the Berklee College of Music in Boston in 1983 before studying with saxman Joe Lovano and making New York his permanent home. Ersahin, whose influences on the tenor include John Coltrane and Joe Henderson, soon found himself gigging regularly in Manhattan and has played with trumpeters Eddie Henderson and Wallace Roney, as well as pianist George Cables and bassist Ben Allison. By the late 1990s, Ersahin had recorded two albums: 1996's She Said for the Turkish Pozitif label, and 1997's Home on Golden Horn. Ersahin has said that Middle Eastern culture had a greater impact on his music than Scandinavian culture, and to be sure, the influence of Turkish read more...
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İLHAN ERŞAHIN She Said (aka Our Song) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
She Said (aka Our Song)
Nu Jazz 1996
İLHAN ERŞAHIN Home album cover 3.00 | 1 ratings
Home
Nu Jazz 1997
İLHAN ERŞAHIN Virgo album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Virgo
Nu Jazz 2000
İLHAN ERŞAHIN Harikalar Diyarı (Wonderland) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Harikalar Diyarı (Wonderland)
Nu Jazz 2002
İLHAN ERŞAHIN Ilhan Erşahin Feat. Erik Truffaz : Istanbul Sessions album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Ilhan Erşahin Feat. Erik Truffaz : Istanbul Sessions
Nu Jazz 2009
İLHAN ERŞAHIN Istanbul Sessions: Night Rider album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Istanbul Sessions: Night Rider
Nu Jazz 2011
İLHAN ERŞAHIN İlhan Erşahin's Wonderland : The Other Side album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
İlhan Erşahin's Wonderland : The Other Side
World Fusion 2014
İLHAN ERŞAHIN Afternoon In Rio album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Afternoon In Rio
Nu Jazz 2015
İLHAN ERŞAHIN Ilhan Ersahin's Istanbul Sessions: Istanbul Underground album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Ilhan Ersahin's Istanbul Sessions: Istanbul Underground
Nu Jazz 2016
İLHAN ERŞAHIN Ilhan Ersahin's Istanbul Sessions : Solar Plexus album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Ilhan Ersahin's Istanbul Sessions : Solar Plexus
Nu Jazz 2018
İLHAN ERŞAHIN Silver album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Silver
Nu Jazz 2019
İLHAN ERŞAHIN Ilhan Ersahin, Dave Harrington, Kenny Wollesen :Invite Your Eye album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Ilhan Ersahin, Dave Harrington, Kenny Wollesen :Invite Your Eye
Nu Jazz 2022

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İLHAN ERŞAHIN Your Head You Know album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Your Head You Know
Nu Jazz 2023

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