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Akbank Jazz Festival: Evrencan Gündüz Quintet at Akbank Jazz Festival at Moda Stage

Courtesy of erimcan erdemir | Posted on October 2, 2017

Where

Moda Stage
Akbank Jazz Festival

General Asım Gündüz Cad Halil Ethem Street, Kadıköy
Istanbul
Map
+902163305800

When

Thu, November 16, 2017
21:00

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Musicians

About

Born in 1996, in İstanbul, Kadıköy, Evrencan Gündüz fell for blues music after watching “Ray”, a biopic about Ray Charles. Later on, he improved his music knowledge listening to names like Jimi Hendrix, B.B. King, Albert Collins, Freddie King and James Brown. At 14, he learnt playing classical guitar on his own. At 15, his father Asım Can Gündüz –one of the top guitar virtuosi of Turkey– bought him an electric guitar, and so he took his first step into professional music life. At 16, he was playing in streets and on ferries that cross the Bosphorus Strait. In the same year, he founded his first band, T-Blues, with his friends...

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