Istanbul International Jazz Festival
The Istanbul International Jazz Festival is an international music festival that has been held in Istanbul every July since 1994 . It is organized by the Istanbul Foundation of Culture and Arts and is considered one of the leading European jazz festivals.
The venues are scattered across the city, including the Hagia Irene Museum, the Sakıp Sabancı Museum, the Istanbul Modern and other museums, the Parkorman open-air theater, restaurants, various embassies such as the German embassy park in Tarabya , the Austrian and Italian cultural center, the garden of the Dutch Consulate and the Cemal Reşit Rey Concert Hall. As a festival within a festival, concerts take place in the Tünel district.
history
The idea for the festival came about after the Chick Corea concert in 1984 at the Istanbul Festival, which has existed since 1973 (now the Istanbul International Music Festival ), which was followed by other jazz events at the festival. In 1986 jazz was a permanent part of the festival and in 1994 the festival was established under its own name, with blues, rock, world music, hip-hop, blues, soul, reggae, folk, new age and other popular styles of music being represented.
At the festival were, among others, Keith Jarrett (1996, 2012) and Miles Davis (1988), Jan Garbarek , Ornette Coleman , Stan Getz , the Modern Jazz Quartet , Brad Mehldau , Ray Charles , Wynton Marsalis , The Manhattan Transfer , Bobby McFerrin , Pat Metheny , Charlie Haden , Dizzy Gillespie , Dianne Reeves , Dee Dee Bridgewater , Melody Gardot and David Sanborn . Turkish jazz musicians such as Okay Temiz , Maffy Falay , Kerem Görsev , Carmen Souza , Ayşe Tütüncü and Oğuz Büyükberber were also presented at the festival. There were also musicians from other genres such as Leonard Cohen , Patti Smith , Eric Clapton , Suzanne Vega , Grace Jones , Loreena McKennitt , Bryan Ferry , Lou Reed , Simply Red , Marianne Faithfull and Alicia Keys .
The Istanbul Jazz Festival, which used to be financed primarily with sponsorship money from a major Turkish bank, is often almost unaffordable for Turkish average wage earners. While big names like Diana Krall on the big open air stage of the Cemil Topuzlu Theater were sold out in advance, local bands like HiJazz in the opening act of pianist Ahmad Jamal had a hard time with the audience.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Review 2013 Jazz Journal
- ↑ Turkish jazz struggles as a prophet in its own country , report by Christian Broecking in the Berliner Zeitung of July 15, 2006, accessed January 30, 2015