Shaft (club)
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Shaft Rock Blues and Jazz Club is a blues and rock club in Istanbul
, Turkey. Besides providing blues and jazz
music which gives the place its name, it additionally offers a combination of rock music
covers by famous Turkish musicians and a weekly free stage night for newcomer musicians. Its late night drinking and disco style entertainment is one of the few on the Anatolia
n side of Istanbul.
Its location in regional town and city centre Kadikoy
has been a focus of some contribution to late night disorder in this area, prompting a recent zero tolerance approach to drunkenness in this licenced premise. It offers live music from 23:00 to 04:00, and has a busy dancefloor almost every night.
Istanbul
Istanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and...
, Turkey. Besides providing blues and jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
music which gives the place its name, it additionally offers a combination of rock music
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...
covers by famous Turkish musicians and a weekly free stage night for newcomer musicians. Its late night drinking and disco style entertainment is one of the few on the Anatolia
Anatolia
Anatolia is a geographic and historical term denoting the westernmost protrusion of Asia, comprising the majority of the Republic of Turkey...
n side of Istanbul.
Its location in regional town and city centre Kadikoy
Kadiköy
Kadıköy is a large, populous, and cosmopolitan district of İstanbul, Turkey on the Asian side of the Sea of Marmara, facing the historic city centre on the European side of the Bosporus...
has been a focus of some contribution to late night disorder in this area, prompting a recent zero tolerance approach to drunkenness in this licenced premise. It offers live music from 23:00 to 04:00, and has a busy dancefloor almost every night.