Enver İzmaylov

Enver İzmaylov (Ukrainian: Енвер Ізмайлов, Russian: Энвер Измайлов; born June 12, 1955) is a Crimean Tatar folk and jazz guitarist who uses a tapping style on electric guitar.

For eight years he was a member of the band Sato with leader Leonid Atabekov and appeared on the albums Efsane (1986) and Pass the good around in (1987).

He has toured in Ukraine, Russia, Estonia, Moldavia, Bulgaria, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Turkey, and the U.S.[1] In addition to recording solo albums, he has worked in duets with French keyboardist Xavier Garcia, Turkish drummer Burhan Ocal, and British saxophonist Geoff Warren.

He founded the Art Trio of Crimea with Bari Rustem on percussion and Narket Ramazanov on clarinet, saxophone, and flute.

He uses two nonstandard tunings: (low to high) E, B, E, E, B, E and C, C, G, C, C, C.[2] Enver's daughter Leniye İzmaylova is a popular singer among Crimean Tatars.