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Sami Sippola

Hailing from the costal town of Pori, Sami Sippola was born in 1971. He commenced playing the alto saxophone in his early teens both by jamming with local bands and by starting to learn the ropes at the Pori Conservatory. As the time of the mandatory military service arrived in 1990, he enrolled at a military band – all the while also honing his chops with various jazz and rock groups. A move to Tampere in 1998 proved to be an important decision, as Sippola then became better acquainted with the city’s vibrant music scene known both for the easy-going camaraderie and the DIY mentality, especially prevalent in the jazz sector and personified in people like drummer Janne Tuomi, composer/multi-instrumentalist Kusti Vuorinen, saxophonist Masa Orpana and bass player Ville Rauhala. At the turn of the Millennium, Sippola had become as much a mainstay of the North Tavastia scene as the aforementioned, and he was often heard performing alongside them

Music For Ukraine

by Ian Patterson
March 29, 2022

Music For Ukraine is a benefit album whose proceeds are intended solely for humanitarian aid in Ukraine. This gargantuan compilation features artists from the roster of Finnish label We Jazz Records. The twenty-six tracks--contemporary jazz for the most part, with the odd foray into modern chamber and electronica- tinged experimentalism--amount to two-and-a-half hours of compelling music. ...

Folkjazz from Finland

By Sami Sippola

Label: Eclipse Music
Released: 2018
Track listing: Iltalaulu; Luonnon Ylistys; Mettäpiruja; Laivat Purjehtivat Avomerelle; Ameriikan-Suomalainen Hambo; Virsi Kaitajärveltä; Kamalka; Sillan Yli Salmen Taa.

Quinsin Nachoff’s Flux & Hot Heros

by Maurice Hogue
December 12, 2018

A pair of albums from Northern European artists demonstrate a similar approach in this episode--improvising upon the folk melodies of their countries--Poland's Irek Wojtczak and his Folk Five and Finland's Hot Heros. For Wojtczak, he's just happy to see his recording available: the radio station that was recording the live concert lost the tapes, but fortunately, ...

Hot Heros: Folkjazz from Finland

by Anthony Shaw
November 14, 2018

From the tarnished keys of his favorite old tenor sax, through the scaberous tones of the same instrument to the tangle of his extensive rusty beard, Sami Sippola epitomizes the essence of a free jazz artist. So needless to say the most recent of the releases featuring this well established Finnish musician is another tour de ...

Ville Matti Rauhala

Born: November, 1976

A native of Tampere since his early twenties, Ville Rauhala was born in the neighbouring rural municipality of Kangasala in 1976. He has taken double bass lessons at the Pirkanmaa Music Institute and studied ethnomusicology at the University of Tampere for a period of ten years at the turn of the Millennium. One of his most long-standing collaborators is saxophonist Masa Orpana, another Kangasala- based musician and a prominent figure of the North Tavastia jazz and rhythm & blues scene. The men have performed and recorded together in line-ups such as Olmarin Unioni ever since the early 1990s. Rauhala’s path to a fully-fledged professional musicianship commenced in the mid-1990s in the ranks of various roots bands

Fill Up With Old Time Salvation

By Sami Sippola

Label: Karkia Mistika
Released: 2016

Rubidium

By Sami Sippola

Label: TUM Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: 01. Waltz; 02. Song of India; 03. Vainila; 04. Alma; 05. Rubidium; 06. Old Papa's Blues; 07. Sax-O-Phun; 08. Kynnyspuulla; 09. The Last Janister.

Yöstä Aamun Kynnykselle

By Sami Sippola

Label: Lumpeela Julkaisut
Released: 2013

Verneri Pohjola & Black Motor: Rubidium

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 14, 2013

Da sempre più avanguardistico rispetto alle altre realtà scandinave, il jazz finlandese dopo anni di relativo under statement, germoglia nuovi fiori come ad esempio il trombettista Verneri Pohjola che, in questo Rubidium, incontra l'eclettico trio Black Motor. La figurazione tromba-sax-sezione ritmica richiama immediate memorie di entourage vicini a Ornette Coleman e scelte “free" fine anni Sessanta. ...