For the past three and a half years Ersahin’s New York based trio has been the main attraction of the brunch held every Saturday at the popular jazz club, Sweet Basil. He has also directed Istanbul’s Akbank Jazz Festival jam sessions for three consecutive years, where he’s triumphantly traded riffs with such celebrated soloists as Sam Rivers, James Carter, Craig Harris, John Zorn and Jerome Harris. And leading his trio and quintet, Ersahin has toured throughout Europe, the Middle East, the Caribbean, and the United States.

On record, Ersahin first documented his music with SHE SAID a quintet recording which was orginally released in Turkey, then reissued in 1998 on the California-based Golden Horn Records label as OUR SONG. Although Our Song may now be recognized as Ersahin’s album debut, it was his next recording that would become his first official U.S. release. Titled HOME, this impressive post-bop offering - also on Golden Horn  - showcases the tenor saxman leading an acoustic trio with bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Kenny Wollesen.

For his third recording project, WAX POETIC, Ersahin explores beyond the boundaries of his jazz influences and turns in a spoken word/electric funk venture so fresh that one of the titles (’’Technologie’’) made into the new hip hop film by director Hype Williams title Belly—placing Ersahin’s music in the company of hip-hop/R&B icons such as Nas, DMX, D’Angelo and Q-Tip. Before making this record, the Wax Poetic ensemble was featured in the 1997 JVC Jazz Festival, ’’ Wax Poetic represents a new direction for me,’’ the saxophonist explains. ’’I spent the first ten years of my U.S. residency inhaling American jazz culture - primarily straight ahead jazz,’’ he continues. ’’Now in the past couple of years I’ve found myself going back to the sounds that I grew up with –reggae, club, groove and dj music. The new interpretations of these sounds really interest me a lot, so I infuse them into my jazz roots and mix it all with more ethnic sounds.’’ Originally pressed and distributed in Turkey on the Doublemoon label, Wax Poetic was scheduled for worldwide release (including the United States) in early 1999 by Atlantic Records.