Ilhan Saferali: Piano, Trumpet, Montreal, Coming of Age
Ilhan Saferali talks about coming-of-age in the Vancouver jazz community.
On the Rhythm Changes Podcast, Ilhan Saferali, as a teenager, talks about coming-of-age in the Vancouver jazz community.
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We talked about:
- the Memorial Jazz Space
- The social factors that supported Ilhan’s development as a jazz musician
- His friends, like bassist Raphael Agustin and drummer Julian Ferrer
- Forming a jazz group that can fit onto a bill with Club Sofa
- How the most active young jazz musicians collaborate across schools now
- Taking piano lessons with Brad Turner
- Why he plays piano over trumpet
- Visualizing music with the piano keyboard, which Ilhan developed under the teaching of pianist Jean-Michel Pilc
- I expected Ilhan to hang out in a bunch of games or newer social platforms, but he emphasizes Facebook (thanks to his friend David Hodgson)
- Thoughts on being young and hearing your technique change rapidly
- Recording anxiety
- Finding ways every day to wind down
- Doing album cover art for Brad Turner Quartet with Seamus Blake on Cellar
- Dealing with ego
- Moving to Montreal (fuelling Ilhan’s coffee culture passion)
- What happens in your day-to-day, like your own high school or family, when you start spending so much time on your music
- I try a take on the Patrick O’Shaughnessy question (Ilhan mentions Daniel Verdecchia, Ben Boardman, and Caity Gyorgy)
