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Akbank Jazz Festival: İlham Gencer, Bir Yaşayan Çınar at Pera Palace Hotel Jumeirah
Courtesy of asli | Posted on September 23, 2016
Where
Pera Palace Hotel Jumeirah
Meşrutiyet Street No:52, Bayoğlu
Istanbul
Map
+902123774000
When
Fri, October 14, 2016
21:00
Save the date
Musicians
About
The Grand Pera Ballroom, which hosted unforgettable balls and concerts throughout its more than 120-year history, now celebrates the 90th birthday of maestro jazz pianist İlham Gencer. İlham Gencer, thanks to his natural talent, wrote his first composition at the age of 5. During the 1940s he formed the first local jazz band of the period; a trio of piano, clarinet and voice. Starting from the 1960s, he hosted radio programmes on Istanbul Radio for 14 years. The “Çatı Kulübü” (Roof Club), which he opened in Şişli, was, with his own words, “some sort of a private Turkish conservatory”...