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Friday night! If you haven’t been to yet you are missing out. Great garden. It’s gonna be a wonderful show.

Please welcome our new amazing guitar player to the band!! Suat Vergili. The Doctor!!
Come see us in concert tonight at the Marriott Hotel Rooftop Bar in Alsancak
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Lütfen gruba yeni muhteşem gitaristimize hoş geldiniz!! Suat Vergili. The Doctor!!
Bu akşam Alsancak'taki Marriott Hotel Rooftop Bar'da bizi konserde görmeye gelin. 20:00-23:00

Today’s practice spot.

Ooh. Tonight we’re at

Current view. Today’s practice spot.

Today’s practice spot.

We had a great time playing for at the event tonight.

Hey hey! We’re at Hiç in Urla tomorrow afternoon.

2 Nisan Pazar sahnesindeyiz ✨

Friday night we take the stage!
Bu cuma sahnesindeyiz.. ✨

It’s my 6th Turkaversary today. Celebrating at with a live concert!

Maintenance.

Some end of the year shows for you fine people! May you find fun, warmth and love with friends and family! 💕💕💕

Our next show is in Inciraltı on Saturday

Last night at with and . Loving my VPS Summit from

On the Bosphorus tonight.

Playing on a boat on the Bosporus tonight. An event for

Today’s practice spot.

My trumpet has a lot to say these days. We’re at tonight at 9pm.

This shot from #1962

What a fun weekend of music and dancing. I really do love the Utrecht scene. Thanks for the warm welcome and the fun.

I’ve got my travel face on. Heading to in Utrecht for the weekend to perform with .

Tin Pan on the Jumbotron at the mall! HADI BEY!

A musical meeting of the minds. First time my Turkish friend are meeting and for a rehearsal. Real fun. Much respect and mutual enjoyment. It’s gonna be a fun tour!

Greetings from Munich. On the way to Bilbao to play for

Here's our weekly show schedule... oh yeah... big news... WE ARE PERFORMING IN SPAIN THIS WEEKEND!!

Come see us live this week. Oh baby!!

A week of excellent music coming up for us and all of our fans!!





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Our name in hotel lights.

Back on the scene! Upcoming shows!

Well ... here it is. NUMBER 100!! Woo-hoo!!!

This song features the legendary Alpay Çiftci on storytelling, guitar AND violin! Gerçek bir esnaf!

Alpay starts of the song with a bıt of a story about begging in Turkish ... sana yalvarırım! The song is about any situation where you feel like you've done more than enough but aren't getting what you feel you should! It's called "The Begging Kind" and even though the voice of the song says he's not that kind, he kinda surely is, ain't he?

THE BEGGING KIND

I slayed the dragon, gave you his head.
I'm no where closer to your bed.
What do I have to do to get to you?

I gave you diamonds, rubies and gold.
C'mon lets do this before we get old.
What do I have to do to get to you?

What's running through your mind? (I know I know)
I'm not the begging kind.

I rubbed you feet, baked you some bread.
You ain't heard a word that I said.
What do I have to do to get to you?

What's running through your mind? (I know I know)
I'm not the begging kind of man. Do you understand.

I slayed the dragon, gave you his head.
I'm not even one inch closer to your lovin' bed.
What do I need to do to get to you?

lyrics ©2022 Jesse Selengut

This installment of the 100 Composition Challenge is brought to you in part by Alex Richard!! Thanks, Alex, for being such a generous and interested Patreon Sponsor!! ( https://patreon.com/tinpan )

#100

I am in Nairobi again for this one. NUMBER NINETY-NINE!!! I really can't believe I am actually going to finish! 100 new pieces of music - with videos - in a one year period. Wow. How should I celebrate on March 1st when I finish?

Every time I am in Nairobi I contact MacKinlay Mutsembi - trumpet player, band leader, business man, HUSTLER!! We're getting to be good friends over the years. Anyway, I call Mac and he tells me to come sit in at Geco Cafe and I'm, of course, very excited about that. His band is kind of legendary. Next thing I know he is asking me for a headshot so he cam put me on the poster for the night as a featured guest. That felt wonderful. Thanks, MacKinlay.

And naturally, I decided to write a song for the occasion! I wanted it to be simple enough that we could play it without rehearsal and I could show the band how it went as we were doing it. It's a little sloppy but I think the end result is really fun to see and hear. For me it is fun to see that, the guys getting excited about learning it as we are going. Everyone took a turn improvising and in the end, we were on this tune for 18 minutes. I edited it down quite a bit. This video is a 6 minute.

The title "NHPlease" refers to MacKinley's big project in Nairobi - the Nairobi Horns Project or simple knows as NHP. You can hear that stuff here... https://nairobihorns.com/.

Even though the band last night wasn't NHP, besides Mac three other cats from that band were playing. Featured here with a solo is the wonderful guitarist Jack Muguna. What a lovely guy and player. His new album is here: https://open.spotify.com/album/1r1HJVEbIrVPhMty4CyoPG

I won't forget to mention Amani Baya on drums. OMG this has to be the best drummer in Kenya right now. Folks are saying all of East Africa perhaps. His grove is so confident and he just radiates joy the moment the music starts until the well after it ends.

Check out that stylish youngster on the bass. That's Mike Onyie. I played with Mike for the first time a few years back when he was only 17. On keys was another from the NHP - and on alto sax was Dan Sax!

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