Results for "Olli Ahvenlahti"

Olli Ahvenlahti

Flow Festival 2023

by Rob Garratt
August 25, 2023

Flow Festival Suvilahti, Helsinki, Finland August 11-13, 2023 The stark quantity and sheer quality of improvised and instrumental music on offer at Finland's Flow Festival only starts to make sense when you dig into its roots. Once loudly crowned by Vogue as “the Nordics countries' coolest festival"--a fact the event's ...

Thinking, Whistling

By Olli Ahvenlahti

Label: We Jazz Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: Thinking, Whistling; Minor Minor; Miles Away; Say It Again; Black Forest Air; Late Night; A Piano Song; Saturday; Little White.

Olli Ahvenlahti: Thinking, Whistling

by Alberto Bazzurro
September 13, 2018

Il pianista finlandese Olli Ahvenlahti, classe 1949, in questa che è la sua incisione più recente, datata luglio 2017, dirige un quartetto dalle geometrie nitide, correttissime, quanto assolutamente asservite a un linguaggio decisamente tradizionale. Naturalmente ognuno è libero di suonare (anche bene, come accade appunto qui) la musica che preferisce, ma è ovvio che risentire per ...

Flow Festival 2018

by Anthony Shaw
August 14, 2018

Flow Festival Helsinki, Finland August 10-12, 2018 Once the fizz and thud of a modern outdoor festival fades, in my case behind numerous trees and double glazing 1½ miles away, one wonders how much art has been expended with such a concentration of energy put out. Flow Festival, based in the steampunk ...

Thinking, Whistling

By Olli Ahvenlahti

Label: We Jazz Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: Thinking, Whistling; Minor Minor; Miles Away; Say It Again; Black Forest Air; Late Night; A Piano Song; Saturday, Little White.

Olli Ahvenlahti: Thinking, Whistling

by Anthony Shaw
December 6, 2017

When Mose Allison wrote in 1958 that 'a young man ain't got nothing in the world these days' he was probably not intending to make a philosophical statement--more a question of power politics. But now(adays) the line now suggests something else to me. I think neither Roger Daltrey nor I thought about it this way, at ...