Grammy-nominated Turkish composer and musician Mehmet Ali Sanlikol would like to introduce his one-of-a-kind dream instrument. It’s been decades in the making, and on Wednesday, March 26, his ...

Record collector Ian Nagoski has been buying up cheap 78 rpm discs for over a decade. The 36-year-old music junkie and record store owner always had one rule: "My policy was to buy anything in a ...

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. On an early Saturday afternoon in ...

Middle Eastern instrumentation, modes and rhythms have long served as source material for jazz musicians wishing to extend their musical boundaries. In the early days of jazz, an "oriental tinge was ...

Please join Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol and the DÜNYA Ensemble on Tuesday, October 14 for a very special musical journey! At this concert, Sanlıkol and DÜNYA will first perform examples of classical ...

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At one point the Turkish Ottoman Empire stretched from Eastern Europe to the Middle East and on into Northern Africa. While it had long ago lost its toehold in Western Europe in Spain, the rest of the ...