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Erkan Ogur (baglama) and Cihat Askin (violin) perform a mournful, tender, sweet (or bittersweet) and graceful piece called Selanik Turkusu.

Turkish ney is featured in this Sufi-inspired composition. Frame drum provides a nice pulse behind the haunting, breathy, crying sound of the ney (flute).

Man! What "baddass" Sister Rosetta's bein' here! Check out the stinging, curt, cursory guitar licks, and her wicked little entrance in the old horse and buggy.

Yuang Sha performs the composition "Ming Shan" on the Chinese instrument "guzheng," sometimes classified as an "Asian zither." I like this performance/composition for many reasons; a primary one is the "uncorny," abstracted nature of the music. No florid, gushing guzheng here! ~ : ~ : ~ : ~ : ~ : ~ : ~ : ~ : ~ : ~ : ~ : Notes from the person posting the video on YouTube: "Central Consertvatory's Yuan Sha plays Ming Shan, one of the pieces that brought her to the first prize of the 2002 International Chines

Expresses all the cynical, mournful, disappointed, bitter, frightened hunger, longing, hopelessness, alienation, isolation, slim snaky hopes, and frank love I felt when I was 16 (sixteen) years old...1967...Vermont...and Cohen on the tiny teen turntable with its coarse needle in that crude, clunky cartridge...The hissing of the vinyl...

türk halk müziğinin evrenselleştirilmesi adına mutluluk verici bir örnek olmasının yanı sıra; dinlerken dinlendirebilen ve düşlerinizi göz sinemanızda kolaylıkla canlandıran yegâne ses:mircan kaya...

Ugur Onuk, neyzen (ney player) in an improvisation on his ney (ney taksimi).

Features Joe Lovano live at the Blue Note, 17 Jan 2008. This is a peaceful, emotionally-rich performance.

McCoy Tyner Quartet featuring Joe Lovano, saxophone; Eric Kamau Gravatt, drums;
Gerald Cannon, bass;