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Tatu Rönkkö

We Jazz 2014

by Anthony Shaw
December 19, 2014

We Jazz 2014 A Jazz Installation Helsinki, Finland December 8-13, 2014 Music festivals nowadays come in all forms of venue, from ocean cruise boats to desert retreats, and in between all the other varieties that we all know, from smoky bars (there must be some left somewhere) to concert halls. ...

Juhani Aaltonen Celebrates the Heroes of Finnish Jazz

by Eyal Hareuveni
May 14, 2014

Since its inception, the Finnish Tum label's aim was to document the current, local jazz scene and to position it in a broader perspective--from seminal influences by local heroes, musicians from the first generation of Finnish Jazz, and formative forces from European jazz, mainly the Scandinavian ones. Almost 80-year old sax hero Juhani Aaltonen, born in ...

Juhani Aaltonen: To Future Memories – The Music of Antti Hytti

by Dave Wayne
May 7, 2014

Can anyone just decide, on a whim, to take up an instrument and simply become a working musician anymore? That's precisely what Juhani Aaltonen did as an eighteen year-old living in the town of Inkeroinen, in central Finland back in the early 1950s. Apart from a year of study at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, and ...

An Intriguing Twofer from TUM Records: Henrik Otto Donner's And It Happened and Juhani Aaltonen's To Future Memories

by Hrayr Attarian
April 25, 2014

The Finnish label TUM has made its mission to shed light on native talent. The world at large is familiar with a few of the country's improvisers, like drummer Edward Vesala and saxophonist/flutist Esa Pethman, but many other, equally gifted musicians remain obscure to non-Finns. In the span of 11 years since its inception, TUM has ...