Maffy Falay
Maffy Falay
Top Songs
| 1 | We Six [Remastered 2022] | ||
| 2 | Con Alma [Remastered 2022] | ||
| 3 | Three flowers [Remastered 2022] | ||
| 4 | Over the rainbow [Remastered 2022] | ||
| 5 | Short story [Remastered 2022] |
Albums
Oct 1996 • 8 songs
May 1986 • 9 songs
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Biography
The first international jazz soloist to emerge from Turkey, trumpeter Maffy Falay was born in 1930 and studied in Ankara. In 1956, the Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra was greeted by a jazz band in the Turkish capital and Gillespie was so impressed that he advised Falay to travel to the United States. His given name Muvaffak being hilarious to American ears, he earned the nickname Maffy. Properly translated, his name means "he who shall be successful."
In 1960, he moved to Germany to play with Kurt Edelhagen's Orchestra and the Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Big Band, appearing on sever...