Orhan Demir

Orhan Demir
Demir in the early 2000s
Background information
GenresJazz
LabelHittite Records

Orhan Demir (Turkish: [ˈoɾhan ˈdemiɾ]; born 1954 in Istanbul, Turkey) is a Canadian jazz guitarist. His first release, in 1986, was The Way I See You; his second release, in 1987, was North West; the third album was 1989's Windmill; in 1990 he released the solo acoustic album Sultan of Strings, followed by Hot Cargo (1993), Originals (1997), Guitar Plus (1998), Originals Vol. 2 (2018), Freedom in Jazz (2019), Freedom in Jazz Vol. 2 (2020), and the Ziggurat DVD (2021). Orhan Demir recordings received great reviews from Jazz Times, Down Beat, Guitar World, Cadence, Options, Coda, Jazz Journal and others.