Mehmet Ali Sanlikol

Jazz Concert Reviews: Mary Halvorson’s Amaryllis and the Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol Quintet at the Regattabar

September 23, 2025
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Gigs by superb bands led by Mary Halvorson and Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol at the Regattabar.

Jazz Album Review: Mehmet Ali Sanlikol’s Distinctive “7 Shades of Melancholia”

June 3, 2025
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I don’t know anything quite like Mehmet Ali Sanlikol’s Turko-jazz playing. (I invented the term.) I am glad it’s here for us to enjoy.

Jazz Concert Review: Celebrating Bob Brookmeyer

March 9, 2018
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Bob Brookmeyer’s great contribution was to make it seem as though anything is possible — and permissible –in the big band context.

Jazz Review: Mehmet Ali Sanlikol & whatsnext at Scullers — An Intoxicating Mix

October 4, 2014
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There were times during the performance when Mehmet Ali Sanlikol and the band seemed to fully enter the Ottoman empire.

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