ABOUT THE CD
"This is an outstanding debut... Cevikce's "A New Abode" is brimming with intelligent and swinging ideas. She has ability, as a writer and soloist to, as they say, connect the dots; many and many a dot it turns out."
Charles Winokoor, Cadence Magazine, Oct. 2005
To read the full Cadence review, plase click here
A NEW ABODE, Sila's debut album as a leader, was released on SteepleChase Records in October, 2004. You can order the CD online from JazzLoft or Ejazzlines. Ordering in Europe is possible from SteepleChase. For more information about this recording please click here.
Read the latest review of "A New Abode" in JazzTimes Magazine here.
Read the review of the CD on AllAbout Jazz here.
European reviews: Italian, French.
Press from Turkey: Milliyet Interview, Radikal Review.
A NEW ABODE, is featured as the "must have jazz CD" of the week by Jazz with Bob Parlocha broadcasted on various NPR stations and WFMT Satellite Jazz Network. Read Bob's review here.
EVENTS
May 8-10 & 15-17
OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY Withycombe Hall Main
Theater
An original world premier musical!!! A fictionalized account of the playwright's
turbulent tenure as head of the National Endowment of the Arts in the 1980s,
SPIN is a bitingly satirical look at what happens when art meets poltics.
PAST PERFORMANCES
Oregon’s Poet Laureate Lawson Inada teams up with pianist Sila Cevikce Shaman for ‘A Conversation between Poetry and Jazz’ at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 5, at the Corvallis-Benton County Public Library.
CATSKILL CHAINSAW REDEMPTION which Sila wrote music for had a run of 4 sold out screenings in NY and was screened at Seattle Film Festival and Newport Film Festival. For more info click HERE
SONGS OF SELF ---A new song cycle for Soprano and Piano performed by Elif Savas and Sila Cevikce at the Tenri Cultural Institute.