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Tomi Nikku is a Helsinki-based trumpet player, composer, bandleader and educator who has become known as one of the most active Finnish instrumentalists of his generation. Nikku leads his quintet, Tomi Nikku 5tet, and works as a sideman with numerous innovative bands like Alder Ego, Maxxxtet, Bowman Trio, Maan Tila, UXILA EXILE, and Sointi Jazz Orchestra, to name a few. Along with the small group playing Nikku works as a freelance musician in various settings and styles. He has performed as a featuring soloist with UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra and has earned his Master’s degree in music at the Sibelius Academy of the University of the Arts. Nikku’s style of playing and writing derives from his personality, life experience, and worldview

Album

Out Of Self and Into Others

By Kannaste4

Label: We Jazz Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: New Life; The Bridge; Ups and Downs; No Name; It's All Good; Different Worlds; Pause; Elegy; It’s All Good – reprise.

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Aarni Häkkinen Jazz Orchestra

By Aarni Häkkinen

Label: Bopcat Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Audiomania, Compassion, Paint With What You Have, Straight To Agora, Steamtrolling, The Wheel, Why Woodn't You (Play the Blues)

Album

Last Dance

By Edward Partyka

Label: Neuklang Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: G.G.'s Last Dance; Para Nada; Dienda; Do As I Say (Not As I Do).

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Light & Shade

By Tomi Nikku

Label: Flame Jazz Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Inceptum Intro; Inceptum; Who Goes First?; V.E.N.; Trumpet Intro / Yearnin'; Emboldened; What Is It (That You're So Afraid Of); Yearnin'

Article: Album Review

Max Zenger: Chapter 2

Read "Chapter 2" reviewed by Troy Dostert

by Troy Dostert
January 1, 2018

Finnish saxophonist/bass clarinetist Max Zenger's quartet, the Maxxxtet, shows on its sophomore release that there's a lot of room in modern jazz for an approach that puts harmony, intricate concepts and subtle rhythmic nuances ahead of passionate intensity and technical brilliance. This is not to say that the group lacks chops or ambition--but that these traits ...