Joonatan Rautio Trio

Joonatan Rautio Trio: Commitment

by Chris Mosey
May 16, 2010

This is that exceedingly rare item: a Finnish jazz record intended for the wider world. Ever since 1926, when the SS Andania famously put into Helsinki harbor with its “hot" band, The Andania Yankees, jazz has been part of musical life in this small country on the outer fringes of Europe. However, local jazzers, it must be said, have failed to make much of a mark internationally. Why? Well, it must also be said that originality has ...