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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19:00

Concert Nilüfer Verdi Trio “Playing Tunes for Peace”

Yeldeğirmeni Arts Center

20:45

Concert İlhan Erşahin’s İstanbul Sessions

Müze Gazhane

28 SEP SUN
3

11:00

Concert Maya Perest

Sakıp Sabancı Müzesi

15:00

Concert Kind of Six

Yeldeğirmeni Arts Center

19:00

Concert Raül Refree Presents “El Espacio Entre”

Yeldeğirmeni Arts Center

29 SEP MON
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30 SEP TUE
3

18:00

Concert Ahmet Ali Arslan “Manastır”

All Saints Moda Church

18:30

Conversation Beni Bu Şarkılar Mahvetti: 35th Akbank Jazz Festival Special Edition

Bant Mag. Havuz / Bina

21:00

Concert Sista Sound presents: Özge Ürer, Deniz Taşar, Kamucan Yalçın & Ana Flávia

Bant Mag. Havuz / Bina

01 OCT WED
4

19:30

Concert Joel Lyssarides & Georgios Prokopiou

Arter

21:30

Concert Jazz Clubs Night: Berkay Sümbül Quintet

Bova

21:30

Concert Jazz Clubs Night: Yeşim Pekiner Quintet “Reflections on a Jade”

Nardis Jazz Club

21:30

Concert Jazz Clubs Night: Batu Şallıel and Istanbul Swing Cats

Pera 77

02 OCT THU
2

20:30

Concert Chief Adjuah

Zorlu PSM, Turkcell Platinum Stage

22:00

Concert Niechęć "Distaste"

Frankhan

03 OCT FRI
2

20:30

Concert Jazz Meets Rap

Alan Kadıköy

21:00

Concert All Night Jazz: Jitwam (DJ Set), Grup Ses (DJ Set)

Frankhan

04 OCT SAT
5

11:00

Children Workshop Wild Child Orchestra (Ages 9-12)

Akatlar Kültür Merkezi

13:00

Conversation Jazz Network Panel: Can the Media in Turkey Keep Up with the Rhythm of Jazz?

Salon İKSV

13:00

Workshop Keeping Track of the Musical Journey Workshop with Üretim Kaydı

Zuhal Müzik Kanyon

20:00

Concert Ali Perret “Octopus Band”

Akatlar Kültür Merkezi

21:30

Concert Enji

Salon İKSV

05 OCT SUN
3

11:00

Children Workshop Wild Child Orchestra (Ages 6-9)

Bağlarbaşı Cultural Center

15:00

Conversation Turning Points in Jazz History

Bağlarbaşı Cultural Center

19:30

Concert Önder Focan & Yavuz Darıdere "Legendary Hammond Trio" & Guests

Bağlarbaşı Cultural Center

06 OCT MON
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07 OCT TUE
3

21:30

Concert Jazz Clubs Night: Ömercan Şakar "Project OM 4.0"

Nardis Jazz Club

21:30

Concert Jazz Clubs Night: Sinem İslamoğlu Group “Neo-Soul Vibes”

Pera 77

21:30

Concert Jazz Clubs Night: Dilan Balkay

Bova

08 OCT WED
2

20:30

Concert RYMDEN (Bugge Wesseltoft, Dan Berglund, Magnus Öström)

Zorlu PSM, Turkcell Platinum Stage

21:30

Concert Alfredo Rodriguez & Pedrito Martinez

Babylon

09 OCT THU
2

19:30

Concert Mehmet Uluğ Tribute Night: Adam Rudolph’s “Invisible Threads”

Arter

21:30

Concert Jaubi

Salon İKSV

10 OCT FRI
2

20:30

Concert Eliane Elias

Zorlu PSM, Turkcell Platinum Stage

22:00

Concert Kinga Głyk

Frankhan

11 OCT SAT
4

13:00

Conversation fugamundi x Hakan Bıçakçı Jazz Listening Club: Jazz and Suspense in Cinema

Postane İstanbul

15:00

Conversation Literature and Jazz

Arter

20:30

Concert Bohren Und Der Club Of Gore

Borusan Music House

20:30

Concert The Brandee Younger Trio

Zorlu PSM, Turkcell Platinum Stage

12 OCT SUN
1

20:30

Concert Aaron Parks Little Big

Zorlu PSM, Turkcell Platinum Stage

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