The methodologies to create succesful jazz music festivals in turkey

Jazz music and industry is quite developed in current age with its fantastic performance artists, recordings, new creations and especially fests. Jazz music fests are attracting thousands of people to activities each year, and International fests are contributing lots of important values to societies with their missions. Jazz fests are creating opportunities for new talents, informing societies about this great music, creating new disciplines with events, training people and opening stages for jazz music artists. Art management is an important effect on the application of managerial functions over the societies cultures.to define the financial needs,human relationships,planning and presenting the shows in this area is as important as rising the level of culture,economy and the solidarity of the societies. Shortly, jazz fests are adding several values to local people who are organizing it. Of course, international jazz fests are competing with each other to be the best also, and management of jazz fests have got several important points to reach success. In this thesis, successful jazz fests will be evaluated and their common features will be pointed out to compare them with Turkish jazz festivals. The mission of thesis is finding out problems in Turkey which ones are creating barriers to reach success for this festivals; and trying to suggest solutions with examples of World' successful jazz festivals. Thesis is claiming that, Turkey has got great potential for Jazz festivals with its audiences and culture; but country is not using this potential yet because of ignorance and weak supports.