30th Akbank Jazz Festival

30th Akbank Jazz Festival

Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow

Akbank Jazz Festival, hosting over 5,000 international and Turkish jazz artists until now, and reaching an audience of over 500,000 people with 773 concerts, 1,000 workshops, and more than 100 interviews in 30 years in an attempt to ensure the transfer of jazz music to new generations, is getting prepared to celebrate its 30th anniversary with a special project in pursuance of its mission.

Having supported the development of Turkish jazz for the past 30 years, Akbank Jazz Festival delivers an archival work in order to record and commemorate the current state of Turkish Jazz without ever slowing down in this period of global pandemic in which all dynamics have changed, concerts have been cancelled, and events have been postponed. Initiating a retrospective project portraying the last 30 years with its valuable contents of special records, interviews, and documentary shots, Akbank Jazz Festival thereby encourages and supports creativity despite all restrictions brought by pandemic and aims to leave an influential, meaningful, and enduring work as a legacy to the world of Turkish jazz.

Consisting of exclusive records, as well as 30 original compositions and the performance of nearly 80 musicians, in memory of the 30th anniversary of Akbank Jazz Festival, this project has a crucial value not only as a special album but also as a documentary depicting and reflecting the spirit of both the past 30 years and the current period thanks to videos displaying record process and interviews with musicians.

Akbank Jazz Festival is going to feature in this album original works that will be published for the first time and are prepared by 30 jazz musicians and groups of Turkey by being inspired by their feelings or thoughts about the festival, the city, and current period. This album, which will be an archival work reflecting the Turkish Jazz world, is released as a vinyl record and in digital format.

The 30th Akbank Jazz Festival special album whose organization and content programming will be carried out in collaboration with Pozitif will include young musicians, musicians who live abroad, and musicians who were going to be invited to the festival this year, besides masters who performed at the festival in the past 30 years.

Comprising 30 pieces, the album includes compositions of essential names and groups of Turkish Jazz such as Ali Perret, Aydın Esen, Ayşe Tütüncü, Baki Duyarlar, Barış Demirel - Barıştık Mı, Burak Bedikyan, Cem Tuncer, Çağıl Kaya, Çağrı Sertel, Deniz Taşar, Ediz Hafızoğlu, Elif Çağlar, İlhan Erşahin’s İstanbul Sessions, İmer Demirer, Jülide Özçelik, Kağan Yıldız and Sibel Köse, Kamil Özler, Kerem Görsev, Konstrukt, Lahza (Cenk Erdoğan & İkiz), MÖE (MadenÖktemErsönmez), Neşet Ruacan & Ozan Musluoğlu Quartet, Nilüfer Verdi,  Oğuz Büyükberber, Okay Temiz, Önder Focan, Selen Gülün, Timuçin Şahin, Tuna Ötenel, TÖZ (Tamer Temel, Ercüment Orkut, Cem Aksel).

On the other hand, among those musicians accompanying the album are Adem Gülşen, Barış Doğukan Yazıcı, Burak Irmak, Berkan Tilavel, Bulut Gülen, Can Çankaya, Cem Nasuhoğlu, Çağdaş Oruç, Efe Demiral, Ekin Cengizkan, Engin Recepoğulları, Eren Turgut, Eylül Biçer, Eylül Ergül, Ferit Odman, Fırtına Kıral, İzzet Kızıl, Kaan Bıyıkoğlu, Kamil Yılmaz, Korhan Futacı, Kürşad Deniz, Mehmet Ali Şimaylı, Meriç Demirkol, Miraç Yavuz, Nedim Ruacan, Orhan Deniz, Ozan Musluoğlu, Serhan Erkol, Selim Aydın, Şenol Küçükyıldırım, Şenova Ülker, Taşkın Akarsu, Tibet Akarca, Tolga Tohumcu, Turgut Alp Bekoğlu Umut Çağlar, and Volkan Hürsever.

You can listen to the album Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow on 156 different digital music platforms, including Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer and Fizy from October 23rd.

30th Akbank Jazz Festival

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20:30

Concert Kenan Doğulu “İhtimaller”

Müze Gazhane

29 SEP SUN
4

11:00

Concert Meriç Dönük

Sakıp Sabancı Müzesi

15:00

Concert Güneş Cengiz & Adar Geçimli

Yeldeğirmeni Arts Center

15:00

Conversation fugamundi x Berke Can Özcan Jazz Listening Club

Bant Mag. Havuz / Bina

19:00

Concert Ayşe Tütüncü "Song Project"

Yeldeğirmeni Arts Center

30 SEP MON
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01 OCT TUE
2

19:00

Concert Daniel Hersog Quartet

Akbank Sanat

20:30

Concert Tophane Noise Band featuring Berke Can Özcan & Rana Uludağ

Alan Kadıköy

02 OCT WED
2

19:00

Concert Vega Trails

Akbank Sanat

21:30

Concert Isaiah Collier & The Chosen Few

Babylon

03 OCT THU
5

19:00

Concert EABS, Before: LoftCaz Sessions

Frankhan

20:30

Concert Tomas Fujiwara 7 Poets Trio

Akbank Sanat

21:30

Concert İstanbul West Side Collective

Bova

21:30

Concert Barış Arslan “Zenith”

Nardis Jazz Club

21:30

Concert İpek Göztepe - Betty Carter Songbook

Pera 77

04 OCT FRI
2

19:00

Concert Asena Akan Contempo “AŞIK”

Akbank Sanat

22:00

Concert Dave Okumu & 7 Generations

Babylon

05 OCT SAT
4

15:00

Conversation Kreşendo x In Pursuit of the Music Journey

Hope Alkazar

15:00

Conversation Free Jazz

Akbank Sanat

20:30

Concert TÖZ & Hezarfen Ensemble “Töz II”

Arter

22:00

Concert Blue Lab Beats

Babylon

06 OCT SUN
3

13:00

Conversation Jazz Network Panel: From Academy to Stage

Akbank Sanat

15:00

Conversation From Classic to Jazz

Arter

16:30

Concert Selût & Tuğçe Şenoğul

The Circle

07 OCT MON
1

20:30

Concert Kurt Elling

Cemal Reşit Rey Concert Hall

08 OCT TUE
2

19:00

Concert Bilge Günaydın Quintet

Akbank Sanat

20:30

Concert Tatiana Eva-Marie

Ses 1885 - Ortaoyuncular Tiyatrosu

09 OCT WED
3

19:00

Concert Aydın Kahya & Rustam Rahmedov Duo

Akbank Sanat

20:30

Concert K-Jazz: Sori Quartet

Ses 1885 - Ortaoyuncular Tiyatrosu

21:30

Concert Mehmet Uluğ Tribute Night: Burhan Öçal & Jamaaladeen Tacuma Trakya Funk featuring Gazapizm & King Noli

Babylon

10 OCT THU
3

19:00

Concert Kahil El’Zabar’s Ethnic Heritage Ensemble

Akbank Sanat

20:30

Concert Harold López-Nussa

Zorlu PSM, Turkcell Platinum Stage

21:30

Concert Takuya Kuroda

Babylon

11 OCT FRI
2

19:00

Concert Ayşegül & Nezih Yeşilnil Quintet “Jazzy, Rocky, Funky”

Akbank Sanat

22:00

Concert Rodrigo Amarante

Babylon

12 OCT SAT
5

11:00

Kid Workshop for Children: Fantastic Sounds, Colorful Images

Akbank Sanat

13:00

Kid Workshop for Children: Fantastic Sounds, Colorful Images

Akbank Sanat

15:00

Conversation Musician Beyond His Time - İsmet Sıral and “Documentary of a Documentary”

HuginMunin Artworks

20:30

Concert Brad Mehldau Trio

Cemal Reşit Rey Concert Hall

22:00

Concert Adi Oasis

Babylon

13 OCT SUN
2

20:30

Concert Antonio Sánchez Quartet featuring Seamus Blake, Aydın Esen, Orlando le Fleming

Zorlu PSM, Turkcell Platinum Stage

20:30

Concert Tom Skinner

Borusan Music House

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