Results for "Verneri Pohjola & Black Motor"

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

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. ...

Verneri Pohjola & Black Motor: Rubidium

by Eyal Hareuveni
March 31, 2013

Black Motor is Finland's leading trio of free jazz that began to gain a wider recognition outside Finland in recent years. Since its foundation around 2005, the central Finland, Tampere-based proletariat trio expanded its muscular, uncompromising post-Albert Ayler and Peter Brötzmann approach as it began to collaborate with fellow, innovative Finnish improvisers as saxophonist Juhani Aaltonen, ...

Verneri Pohjola & Black Motor: Rubidium

by Dan McClenaghan
February 14, 2013

Just going by the name, for those unfamiliar with the thriving Scandinavian jazz scene, a group calling itself Black Motor might be mistaken for a heavy metal rock band--a smash-and-crash set of drums, a blasting three-chord guitar and a wall-shaking bass wrapped around bellowed lyrics. But the real Black Motor, a drums/bass/saxophone outfit--joined on Rubidium by ...