Jaska Lukkarinen

Jaska Lukkarinen Trio: Trane Ear

by Anthony Shaw
June 11, 2009

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), ...