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Songs
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Albums
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The Electric Oud Man Speaks and You Listen...
2026
Lessons from Nightingales: Songs of Sufi Mysteries
2025
7 Shades of Melancholia
2025
Çalıcı Mehterler (The Musician Mehters)
2024
Turkish Hipster
2023
An Elegant Ritual
2021
Abraham: Music for Three Faiths (feat. Jazzaar Global Ensemble & Billy Cobham)
2019
Resolution
2016
Whatsnext
2014
For You the World, for Us the Roses
2011
Singles & EPs
Pickin' a Shuffle Alla Turca
Single • 2026
Talk About a Turkish Blues
Single • 2024
Estarabim (Radio Edit)
Single • 2023
A Capoeira Turca (Baia Havası) (feat. Anat Cohen)
Single • 2023
(This Is) the Boston Beat
Single • 2021
Hatam Ne? (Where Did I Go Wrong?)
Single • 2014
Videos
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A princess who is in love with the color purple, Movement 1

A Capoeira Turca (Baia Havası) (feat. Anat Cohen)

Simply, COOL

The Boston Beat (feat. Miguel Zenón, Anat Cohen & Antonio Sánchez)

Kürdilihicazkar Kanon

EΣרI☼

Lost Inside

Talk About a Turkish Blues

Abraham Suite: The Fire (feat. Antonio Sánchez)

Jasmine (feat. Tiger Okoshi)
Live performances
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Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol & Whatsnext? at Jazz at Lincoln Center

Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol & Whatsnext? at LPR

"The Rise Up" LIVE feat. Dave Liebman - VIDEO STARTS @6:10 !

The Clocks and Bells of Vienna - Allegro

The Death of Kaya Sultan - Jazz Ballad

The Vegetarian Dervishes - Semai

Excerpts from DEVRAN performed by Blue Heron

An Elegant Ritual

EΣרI☼ - live at Jordan Hall (NEC)

Şaşar Veysel Tangosu (a Turkish Tango)
Featured on
Turkish Jazz
Playlist • YouTube Music
Playlists by Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol
From The Boston Beat to The Turkish 2nd Line
A Gentleman of Istanbul
The Rise Up

The Demons & Humans of Siyah-Kalem

The Triumph
"Abraham" Suite
Concerto for Soprano Saxophone and Jazz Orchestra in C
DEVRAN
A Princess who is in love with the color purple