Burak Bedikyan - Awakening

Being a former classical pianist, Turkish-born Burak Bedikyan employs his enormous technical proficiency to elaborate his compositions here on this third album to illustrate the new depth in his creativity.His exponential growth as a performer, composer and arranger is chronicled with one of the finest releases for 2013 in Circle of Life ... - Brent Black, Bob-N-Jazz (on SCCD33109 'Circle of Life')Personnel: Burak Bedikyan (piano), Loren Stillman (alto and soprano saxophone), Ugonna Okegwo (bass), Donald Edwards (drums)