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Instrument: Piano

Album Review

If the music on Blood Red, the eleventh album by Finland's world-class Espoo Big Band, sounds more Middle Eastern than Scandinavian, there's a reason for that. It was inspired, writes composer/arranger Mikko Hassinen, by 2006 Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk's book, My Name Is Red, set in sixteenth-century Istanbul. The music “doesn't describe or explain the story or the characters," Hassinen writes. “Rather, it is a reflection of the different feelings evoked by the novel," and its lyric influences are largely ...

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Album Review

Lenni-Kalle Taipale Trio: Nothing To Hide

by C. Michael Bailey
May 1, 1999

Finnishing School. The photo of the Lenni-Kalle Taipale Trio contained in the liner notes of Nothing to Hide betrays the spirit of the music on this disc. That spirit is confident exuberance. The picture shows the youthful trio that is made up of Bassist Timo Tuppurainen, Drummer Sami Järvinen, and pianist Lenni-Kalle Taipale. Tuppurainen stands most in the background with a boyish grin that shows a determined playfulness that emerges in his electric and acoustic bass playing. Next in line ...