Apart from these major concerts of the festival, many other uniquely impressive works are being performed by musicians in various venues around the city. If you take flights to Istanbul Turkey you will be much happier to see the performances of most famous pianists and composers of jazz music Chick Corea, and his Freedom Band. This festival has also hosted many other great artists including; Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Stan Getz, Ornette Coleman, Eric Clapton, Massive Attack, Björk, Deep Forest, Patti Smith, Bobby McFerrin, Randy Crawford, The Manhattan Transfer, Jan Garbarek, Keith Jarrett, Wynton Marsalis, Goran Bregovic, Bryan Ferry, Lou Reed, Ute Lemper, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Nick Cave, John Scofield, Simply Red, Jane Birkin, Brad Mehldau, Marcus Miller, Marianne Faithfull, Billy Cobham, Lenny Kravitz, Pat Metheny, and Charlie Haden, among hundreds of other top names in the music industry.
Your flights to Istanbul Turkey this July means watching live performances by all these and many other musicians. This year’s festival also includes “The Lifetime Achievement Award” ceremony, and this award will be given to composer, pianist and saxophonist Tuna Ötenel. This event starts late evenings every day and continues till mid night. This is really a worth attending festival after one’s visit to Istanbul. A large number of visitors take flights to Istanbul from UK and other European and world wide destination to attend this mega show.