Jazz Quartet Turns Uludağ Hotel Lobby Into Intimate Concert

The band featured Ferit Odman on drums, Kağan Yıldız on double bass, Engin Recepoğulları on saxophone, and Uraz Kıvaner on piano. The writer, a longtime acquaintance of Odman and Yıldız through the Kerem Görsev Trio, reflected on how the performance felt like a conversation, with each musician listening and responding to the others.

The evening included a personal dedication of Thelonious Monk's "Straight, No Chaser" to the writer, followed by "Autumn in New York" and "Pure Imagination" from the 1971