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Jaska Lukkarinen Trio: Trane Ear
by Anthony Shaw
This is an album with origins deep in the heart of the Finnish nu-jazz fraternity, featuring three alumni of the Folk and Jazz Department of the national Sibelius Academy. However Jaska Lukkarinen has learned more than just percussion and drums, having spent a season at the Manhattan School of Drumming, where the concept of a drum-led jazz trio took root.
Encouraged by his mentor there, John Riley, and inspired by music such as Dave Holland's Triplicate (ECM, 1988), ...
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