Liner Notes by: - Mulgrew MILLER - "One of the outstanding students who crossed my path as a teacher has been a young drummer from Turkey. His playing would indeed delight the heart of the American jazzman as he has fantastic time and great passion. He would be welcomed on the New York jazz scene. He is one of the treasures on the Istanbul scene. The listener should expect a set of great swinging music from Ferit Odman." ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BIO Ferit Odman (1982) is an on demand jazz drummer based in Istanbul. He started his music studies in Sweden as an AFS exchange student (1999), got a full scholarship to get his B.A. in Music at Istanbul Bilgi University (2001), attended the School For Improvisation workshops in NYC (2004), and has been granted a Fulbright Scholarship to further build on his studies at William Paterson University (2006). He spent / played two years in NYC, studied with jazz greats like Mulgrew Miller, Harold Mabern and Bill Goodwin and he holds a M.M. (Master of Music) degree in Jazz Performance. He became heavily entrenched in the Turkish jazz scene at a young age and recently performs and tours with Turkish pianist Kerem Görsev, while leading his own quintet and promoting his debut CD release “Nommo” that he recorded in New York with Vincent Herring, Brian Lynch, Burak Bedikyan and Peter Washington.