Muvaffak "Maffy" Falay
Ahmet Muvaffak " Maffy " Falay ( born August 30, 1930 in Ankara) is a Turkish trumpeter of modern jazz.
Life and work
Falay studied trumpet and piano at the conservatory in his hometown. In 1956, he led the band that Dizzy Gillespie welcomed at the airport of Ankara, who was then impressed by the qualities of his colleagues, and this suggested to go to the United States. In 1961 he played in the ensemble of Benny Bailey, Ake Persson, Phil Woods, Sixten Eriksson and Quincy Jones. 1962 Falay member Kurt Edelhagen Orchestra, the Cologne worked for the WDR at this time. With the orchestra he took part in a well-received tour of the Soviet Union in May 1964. In addition, he was traveling as a member of the Kenny Clarke / Francy Boland Big Band, with whom he also grossed six albums until 1966.
The mid-1960s he moved to Sweden, where he worked in Radio Jazz Orchestra under Harry Arnold. He also worked with Lars Gullin and George Russell. Already at this time he played Don Cherry Turkish music and then he practiced the free improvising on Turkish melodies. This material interpreted Cherry 1969 Okay Temiz and other musicians in Ankara; Falay was also one of Cherry's Organic Music Society. In 1970 he was a member of the Reunion Orchestra Dizzy Gillespie for a full European tour. He also played with Bernt Rosengren, Monica Zetterlund, Bengt -Arne Wallin, Kwaku Baah Reebop and Arne Domnérus. In 1971 he founded his band Sevda with violinist Salih Baysal, Gunnar Bergsten and Temiz and Rosengren, in which he played an ethno-jazz on the basis of Turkish music before -oriented to a hard-bop quintet returned in the 1980s, to the musician as Kwaku Baa, Rosengren, Elvan Araci or Åke Johansson were involved.
Disco Graphical Notes
- Sevda ( Caprice Records, 1972)
- We Six ( Phontastic, 1985)
- Lulu Alke (CPR )