Aydin Esen Improvisation No.3 WCB 12-3-87 

This concert was a formative earth-shattering event for me... I was there, and Aydin played several other absolutely astounding pieces that evening, in fact he played several concerts over the course of about a one year period, each one incredible. To say that Aydin Esen is brilliant, unique, a limitless fount of sublime harmonic and melodic innovations executed with unparalleled virtuosity, would be an understatement. Many thanks to Rick Beato for posting this and keeping this flame alive, for when future generations of musicians and musicologists examine the historical terrain, they will marvel at and study the music of this great genius, Aydin Esen.

I have a feeling this guy could score a whole movie live and in one sitting.

This is what i call the lost voice of classical impro- a free compositional impro without the limitation of notes, standard or a form, just free spiritual impro from the heart. Because of all the note reading in classical music and all the Realbook and Standard overrated value this kind of art is forgotten, the problem is that people don't understand that This Is Real Improvisation.

I am a old Jazz keyboardist who has been attuned since 1973. How did I miss this guy? What an inspiration. Thank you, Rick!

8:01 Sounds like the part Dylan was shown listening to... Thanks Rick for all you do for music and musicians and those who appreciate music. I came to your when I was doing a RU-vid search when Allan Holdsworth passed. I watched your instructional and then a while after that I started researching Standards and The Great American Songbook and after a few weeks of that your videos kept coming up so I started binging on those while still studying Standards. And then through you I started watching Aimee Nolte videos... and through Aimee, Jacob Collier... Now what I'm really noticing is that when I return to something like "God Only Knows" that I go deeper into it... also the loose music... some R&B or Hip Hop coming from a car or s house resonates more... It's also led me back to more Classical... The great thing about music is we can have it all... All the genres are a gift... but High Content Music opens the doors to deeper appreciation of all music.

Esen is truly fluent in music to the point where he walks a thin line between tonality and outright Schoenbergian 12-tone-ality. I don't think he would allow himself to become so rigid as to stick with tone rows ; he is way too FREE a player, but god, does he not love dotting his landscape with what one might call "The Wrong Notes." But in bringing such things to our ears, he, like Schoenberg, makes you realize that music should never be NORMAL but always breaking boundaries, and that there is no such thing as "wrong notes.". All I can say is "Can you imagine being in his mind all day as he ponders compositions, ideas, and general novelty ?" I would imagine at his level, music must become so wide open that you realize "the more you know and think music, the more you realize how much MORE there is to DO." His mind is a well-oiled turbo-charged engine. God Bless him.

That's a Kurzweil K-250 he's playing, a truly groundbreaking instrument when released in 1984. The fact that it still sounds superb today is incredible, all that from 512k of ram!

The more I listen the better it gets. The transition at 8:01 is so beautiful and then he decides, nope, it's to beautiful and "normal" by 8:35 where he almost deliberately mocks it.

It is a shame I never heard of Aydin Esen in all these years. Thank you Rick!

What a gift to everyone who hears it.

The part starting at 8:00 up to the thrills is perhaps one of the most sensationally beautiful piano pieces I've ever listened to, and I don't even fucking like piano.

for moments reminds me shostakovich`s piano sonata in Bm

Best experienced with eyes closed and attention deeply held the whole way through. Thanks Rick and Aydin!

This is my favorite piece of music improvised ever. Thank you Rick for sharing.

Love your work!! I wish all the best for the Beato family! Thanks for sharing!

The part that starts at 6:13 is so exquisite and amazing. I believe Chick Correa played something very similar on the intro to Circles on the Acoustic Band album. Perhaps influenced by Aydin??

A genius of improvisation!

I can't decide, he is genius or crazy? I hope the DSP in the synthesizer can follow him, and we don't miss any notes :) Beautiful performance! Thanks for the upload!

My god. What was it like to see this happen in person? My mind has been blown from my laptop screen so I can only imagine. I wonder what it's like to hear music with his ears/mind...

Aydin is incredible! Thanks for sharing this with us Rick!

he should have been funded and recorded by whole world. Such a genius should have been transferred way much more to the future generations

J'apprécie beaucoup, merci 🌊

@bob smith My favorite thing about it is that it IS ephemeral. I enjoy struggling to keep up. That fact that he plays what, for me would be a melody that I would vamp on for weeks, ONCE and then moves on to the next amazing thing is what keeps me enthralled. If I could grasp everything it would not be nearly as exciting to me. If he took ten of the best parts and honed them down to their barest essentials then elaborated on them it would be a beautiful piece but it would not hold me in rapture the way these improvisations do.

this is amazing, im getting addicted to aydin´s unique sound, invite him again to sounding off pls

I think I just listened to the universe.

Brilliant improvisation! thanks for the upload, Rick Beato

Hi Rick - thanks for all your hard work on this channel! Could Dylan listen to this piece in its entirety when you recorded the video of him?

thanks so much for uploading. I searched online for it but now I know why I couldn't find it haha. cheers

This is deep shit. I have no explanation why Aydin is not nearly as famous as the likes of Keith Jarrett or Brad Mehldau.

Damn, thank you so much for that Rick. That portion was in my mind for so long.

Thanks Rick, grateful for the post. He's so amazing it's scary. I feel so mortal compared to Masters such as Esen. It's simultaneously inspiring and humbling.

Astounding!!

Thanks for sharing this!

Thanks rick, this is one hell of a gift

Amazing!

Wow, that is wild!!! Unbelievable...

My god !! So crazy ... my ears are bleeding. Out of this world . Genius and beautifull to say the least ....

What the hell did I just see? So beyond.

maybe it would be better when you get a bit more Keith Jarrett videos out but I would love to see your thoughts on the strengths of Keith vs Aydin compared. or some path to start improvising like either one of these.

3:26 - It's CHRISTMAS!! :)

I'm curious what the upper synth is. Surprising no one has mentioned it

In the background there is a guy watching a Mac. Would he happen to be getting a MIDI sequence of that improv?

have you ever tried to transcribe this ?

What about Messian's 20 regards sur l'enfant Jesus for high information music ??

I would absolutely buy these improvisation recordings if they were commercially available

incredible!!!!

AMAZING.no one like it. for me, one of the greatest.

OH. MY. Dearest GOD - :-O

Otherworldly soundscape.

amazing

11:22 woahhhhhhh!!!!

As bayrakları as as as

so like is that music or is it hitting a lot of random notes

Hi Rick, are there any audio recordings of those improvisations on that particular concert? Thanks!

the beginning was terrible but then you see where his musical skill comes in, its like he was gathering a bunch of ideas and planning out how he would evolve it

Pretty good sounds for the first sample based synths!

When I share this video on facebook, it is not playable on facebook. Why is that? By the way, I have set a goal to listen to this work everyday for the rest of the month.

I guess I am not underatanding this music. Maybe its that are barely recognizable melodies or constantly changing rythms or the harmonical complexity. Neverthless I appreciate what he is doing.

is this the best quality record? I would love to have the record in my selection.. This part istoo beautiful. i cannot stand it.

Rick, do you have a break down to what he’s playing like what you’ve done with some of Pat Matheny’s stuff? That would be awesome, brother!

8:01

At 7min 11 or 12 sec there's a weird studdering sound

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11:23-11:30 😮😮😮😮😮

NOT TO SHABBY !!!!

8th minute and after...

Sorry but as a Türk I don't understand most part of this. The parts I talked about just seem meaningless series of notes to me. No I'm open minded to Jazz kind of music more like fusion for example I like Frank Gambale soo much !! but I didn't like Holdsworth that much. Umm I like John Etheridge for example. I can't understand Joe Pass too btw. When I say I don't understand I mean really not understand coz I predict I really don't understand in my current perceptual situation.

Is this music? No it is not. Sorry.

1:30