Artist description Unique technique on his instrument, promising compositional skills, very fast communicative skills and quick ingenious reactions put him among the highest rank of working musicians... an extra-ordinary talent of this kind should be hailed in any and all ways possible. In the near future Senol Kucukyildirim’s respect and fame, which I have no doubt that he will have in his chosen fields as a performer/composer, will add more honor and interest in our nation as well. M.A.S

Music Style jazz, contemporary music, free improvised.

Musical Influences aydin esen, coltrane, w.shorter, o.coleman, and many others.

Artist History Senol Kucukyildirim was born in Istanbul, Turkey. He studied at Istanbul University and at Istanbul conservatory where he studied violin. Since his entire family were musicians, and his father was a drummer, he picked up drumming at a very early age. Eversince, he has been involved with many live performances in Turkey, Canada and in the USA. Meeting Don Cherry in Istanbul was very influential on him in terms of getting involved with other aspects of Jazz. This very incidental meeting with Cherry also influenced his decision to move to the United States where he continiued his studies; He went to Berklee College of Music and studied privately with Ian Froman, Joe Hunt, Jamey Haddad (percussion), Giovanni Hidalgo (percussion). He had a few lessons with Ed Blackwell and Alan Dawson. Inspired by its Third Stream Department , he went to New England Conservatory. Studied with George Russel ve Joe Maneri. He got involved with electronic music at Harvard University, where he had the opportunity meet and perform with Ivan Tcherepnin and John Cage. As a Jazz musician he played with Burn Nix, Cecil Taylor and Raphe Malik in NYC. He has met with Ornette Coleman, Billy Higgins, Dewey Redman, and participated in some sessions. In the Boston area, he played with Aydin Esen, Joshua Redman, John Lockwood , Winton Marsalis, Reggie Workman, Avishai Cohen, Raqib Hassan, Joe Morris, Nate McBride, Michael Adkins, Jim Hobbes, Timo Shenko, Eric Zinman and many others. Senol kucukyildirim now reides in Istanbul, travels in the Boston-NYC-Canada-Istanbul areas and performs in festivals, and radio programs.

Group Members aydin esen, john lockwood, onur turkmen, robert reigle.

Instruments drums

Albums soon

Press Reviews please visit; http://www.senolkucukyildirim.com

Location brookline, ma - USA

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