Jazz Articles about Jarmo Saari

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Jarmo Saari SOLU: The Making of Love

by Anthony Shaw
April 29, 2007

As Jarmo Saari explains on his website, the topic of The Making of Love has motivated and emasculated humankind since the beginning of time. So do we need yet another interpretation?

The album expands the Finnish guitarist's already long discography, which ranges from a big band suite for the UMO Jazz Orchestra to his first solo album, the guitar-based excursion into madcap and mischievous electronica Solu (Rockadillo, 2004). On all his releases Saari shows his mastery of traditional guitar rhythmic ...

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Jarmo Saari: Solu

by Anthony Shaw
September 25, 2004

The use of realia on disc might well have gone the same way as Syd Barrett's homemade attempts to capture the sounds of a live motorbike for his piece Rhamadan--into the cutting bin. But his progenitors succeeded with the same sound for Atom Heart Mother , and the recording industry progressed towards today's super sampling scenario. “Finland's hardest working professional guitarist" Jarmo Saari is doing his modest best to undo and yet confirm this trend some way by creating his ...

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Jarmo Saari: Portrait Of A Guitarist As A Young Man

by Anthony Shaw
November 14, 2003

Among the countless number of strummers and pickers the world over, there may be a small fraction who do not consider themselves to be artists! There must also be a small number who have only produced a handful of well-respected though modestly selling albums, but who still consider that the meaning of their lives is defined in these and their future releases. Jarmo Saari is a representative of this latter category. Saari has been described by Finnish music critic Petri ...

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Jarmo Saari Filmtet: A Tribute to Finnish Cinema

by Matthew Wuethrich
June 11, 2002

One of the few things more obscure than Finnish jazz is Finnish cinema, and even more obscure would be Finnish film music. Guitarist Jarmo Saari fuses together these little known elements and creates a surprising and delightful jazz revue of all three. In the process, Saari's Filmtet also highlights the strengths and weaknesses of many contemporary jazz artists. At moments the Filmtet improvises with imagination and flair, but at others they retreat into mere adaptation of the source material.