Jazz Articles about Mikko Innanen

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Composed Spontaneity: The Music of Kari Ikonen, Mikko Innanen and Esa Onttonen

by Matthew Wuethrich
March 12, 2004

Saxophonist and composer Mikko Innanen has a story that should make listeners think twice about reading too much into a performer's nationality. A Danish critic titled a recent review of an Innanen concert “Tales from Finland" and singled out his composition, “Second Night," as “sounding very Finnish." The problem is that the tune has nothing to do with Finland; it was based on the mood of a Gregory Corso poem, “Second Night in N.Y.C After 3 Years." Innanen ...