Program: Mehmet Ali Sanlikol & Whatsnext?
MEHMET ALI SANLIKOL & WHATSNEXT?Featuring Anat Cohen, clarinet and Miguel Zenón, alto saxophoneThursday, September 28, 2023
Crystal Ballroom
Ken Schaphorst: conductor
Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol: voice, keys, ney, zurna, ud, saz
Mark Zaleski: alto saxophone, flute
Rick Stone: alto & soprano saxophones, flute
Rick DiMuzio: tenor saxophone, clarinet
Aaron Henry: tenor saxophone, clarinet
Melanie Howell Brooks: baritone saxophone, bass clarinet
Mike Peipman: trumpet, flugel horn
Jeff Claassen: trumpet, flugel horn
Dan Rosenthal: trumpet, flugel horn
Jerry Sabatini: trumpet, flugel horn
Chris Gagne: trombone
Bob Pilkington: trombone
Garo Saraydarian: trombone
Angel Subero: bass trombone
Mark Shilansky: piano
Phil Sargent: guitar
Fernando Huergo: bass
Bertram Lehmann: drums
George Lernis: santur, percussion
Grammy-nominated composer Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol creates ground-breaking jazz steeped in a variety of Turkish musical traditions. He and his band Whatsnext? featuring Anat Cohen and Migeul Zenón will celebrate the release of their latest album Turkish Hipster. TURKISH HIPSTER Tales from Swing to Psychedelic All music composed by Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol except for “Estarabim” composed by Erkin Koray arranged by Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol 1. A Capoeira Turca (Baia Havası) 2. “Abraham” Suite I. The Fire II. The Sacrifice III. The Call “A Touch of Eternity” 3. Times of the Turtledove 4. Concerto for Soprano Saxophone and Jazz Orchestra in C I. Medium Funk, “Rebellion” II. Ballad, “Reminiscence” III. Up-Tempo Swing, “Resolution” 5. Estarabim 6. Two Movements from “The Rise Up” - Spain, 1492 - Temmuz 7. The Turkish 2nd Line (New Orleans Çiftetellisi)
Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol
Grammy nominated composer and jazz pianist Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol’s music has been praised by the Boston Globe as “colorful, fanciful, full of rhythmic life, and full of feeling. The multiculturalism is not touristy, but rather sophisticated, informed, internalized”. Sanlıkol is a full time faculty member at the New England Conservatory and he has composed for, performed and toured with international stars and ensembles such as Dave Liebman, Bob Brookmeyer, Billy Cobham, Anat Cohen, Antonio Sanchez, Tiger Okoshi, Miguel Zenón, Gil Goldstein, Esperanza Spalding, The Boston Camerata, The Boston Cello Quartet, A Far Cry string orchestra, American Composers Orchestra, Okay Temiz and Erkan Oğur. Sanlıkol was a recipient of the prestigious Aaron Copland Fund for Music Program Grant twice in 2016 and 2020, the New Music USA Project Grant in 2020, and the South Arts Jazz Road Creative Residency Grant in 2021, among other awards.
Anat Cohen
Anat Cohen has emerged as one of the brightest stars in jazz. Cohen began clarinet studies at age 12. While in her teens, jazz captured her imagination which led to her attending Berklee College of Music where she honed not only her jazz chops, but also expanded her musical horizons, developing a deep love for various Latin music styles. After graduating, she moved to New York City and began to make her mark on the scene. The Jazz Journalists Association voted Cohen Clarinetist of the Year 11 years in a row, and she has topped both the Critics and Readers Polls in the clarinet category in DownBeat every year since 2011. Cohen has released 11 albums as a leader on her own label Anzic, which was established in 2005. Three releases so far were nominated for Grammy Awards.
Miguel Zenón
Widely considered as one of the most groundbreaking and influential saxophonists and composers of his generation, Miguel Zenón has also developed a unique voice as a conceptualist, concentrating his efforts on perfecting a fine mix between jazz and his many musical influences. Zenón was selected as the Alto Saxophonist of the Year by the Jazz Journalist Association in 2015, 2018, 2019 and 2020. He has given hundreds of lectures and master classes at institutions all over the world. In April 2008 Zenón received a fellowship from the prestigious John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Later that year he was one of 25 distinguished individuals chosen to receive the coveted MacArthur Fellowship, also known as the “Genius Grant”.
Ken Schaphorst
Ken Schaphorst is a composer, trumpeter, big band leader, and Chair of Jazz Studies at New England Conservatory. A founding member of the Boston-based Jazz Composers Alliance, an organization dedicated to the promotion of new music in the jazz idiom, Schaphorst has been awarded Composition Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and Meet the Composer. Since arriving at NEC in 2001, Schaphorst has directed the Jazz Orchestra in its performance of new music and traditional big band repertoire. Named Best College Big Band in the 2004 Downbeat Student Music Awards, the ensemble has won critical acclaim for its recordin
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