One of the most long-running festivals organized in Turkey, Akbank Jazz Festival, which is waited by jazz lovers excitedly each year, will meet art-lovers during its 22nd anniversary with a packed program as usual. The 22nd Akbank Jazz Festival will embrace Istanbul with different colors of jazz between October 3rd til October 21st,2012 just like every year The Festival will host many worldwide known jazz musicians this year and offer talented young musicians to show their performance. Providing a great diversity for its enthusiasts through acoustic experience from classical jazz to avant-garde tones and from world music to the limits of electronic, the Akbank Jazz Festival sparkles with this year's musicians. Some of the prominent names of the Festival in this year are; Anthony Braxton & Diamond Curtain Wall Quartet, Eleni Karaindrou, İbrahim Maalouf, Gregory Porter and The ACT Jubilee Night.