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BlueMusicGroup.com Gives Away Entire Albums As Free MP3 Downloads
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Mika Pohjola
In the era of Spotify and Pandora streaming subscriptions, jazz and classical downloads have become an ever-less popular form of listening to music. While Compact Disc sales have surged somewhat, streaming is in 2015 the predominant way to consume music. BlueMusicGroup.com—The Small Label With Big Music—has taken bold measures to make their MP3 download items more popular. Music by Chick Corea, Miguel Zenón, Ben Monder, Mika Pohjola, Chris Cheek, Matt Penman, Fernando Huergo and several others are now available at ...
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Children's Songs By Chick Corea Recorded By Pianist Mika Pohjola
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Mika Pohjola
Pianist and composer Mika Pohjola has released a new album containing twenty Children's Songs by multiple Grammy Award-winning pianist and composer Chick Corea. Children's Songs mainly consists of short songs with simple themes. There is little motivic development in these songs, which rather capture a variety of melodies and moods. Corea, today 73, began writing the first song in 1971. In the preface of the original recording, Corea stated that he aimed “to convey simplicity as beauty, as represented in ...
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The Real Swedish Essential Songs - Beyond Abba - Now Released
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Mika Pohjola
A fruitful cooperation spanning twenty years, vocalist Johanna Grüssner and pianist-composer Mika Pohjola release their twenty-five best tracks on a celebration album, Swedish Songs: The Essential Collection. Grüssner and Pohjola have worked closely since the 1990s, when they were students at the renowned Berklee College of Music in Boston. They later performed and recorded on the New York jazz scene, before moving back to Stockholm, Sweden to do the same. So what is Swedish? Zlatan Ibrahimovic, IKEA and Volvo come ...
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Pianist Mika Pohjola Presents A Stockholm Concert Series
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Mika Pohjola
Pianist and composer Mika Pohjola presents a weekly concert series at the Finnish Church (Finska Kyrkan/Suomalainen Kirkko) in Stockholm spanning July and August 2014. The series features notable guest artists from Sweden and Finland, in a duo and trio format, who will perform with Pohjola every Wednesday starting at 11:30 am. They will present music in the jazz and Scandinavian troubadour idioms, including jazz standards, original compositions and hymns. The series will feature Finnish singer-songwriter Fredrik Furu (July 2), Åland ...
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Swedish Children's Classics Revamped On "Nu Ska Vi Sjunga"
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Mika Pohjola
Swedish singing tradition is alive and well. In the latest of revamped versions of children's classics, vocalist Johanna Grüssner and arranger-composer Mika Pohjola interpret forty songs from the Nu ska vi sjunga (Now We Shall Sing) songbook. The album embraces the rich Swedish singing tradition and is in accordance with the Orff & Kodály method tuned to the natural keys of children. It is easy to sing along! Johanna Grüssner and Mika Pohjola have previously collaborated on several albums, such ...
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New York Session Group Rides High On "Trio Hour"
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All About Jazz
Pianist Mika Pohjola, bassist Dan Loomis and drummer Kyle Struve played 2005-09 on a weekly basis in Pohjola's studio on East 14th Street in Manhattan. The trio specialized in exploring improvisational concepts based on the framework and form of jazz standards. And this fine outing, Trio Hour, recorded in early 2007, is precisely that: Jazz standards and explorations beyond. The first four tracks, consisted of Con Alma by Dizzy Gillespie, Conception by George Shearing, In Your Own Sweet Way by ...
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Provinciano By Argentinian Bassist Fernando Huergo Rereleased
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Mika Pohjola
Argentinian bassist and composer Fernando Huergo rereleases his successful album, Provinciano, on Blue Music Group, now featuring a new mix and master, made for iTunes. Featuring thirteen compositions, most of them from Huergo's creative pen, the album has been praised by the media - All About Jazz says “Huergo triumphantly morphs the best of several musical worlds into this dazzling masterwork", and All Music Guide: “Highly recommended!" Fernando Huergo was born in Córdoba, Argentina, but has resided in Boston, Massachusetts ...
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New Nordic Folk Originals by the Daughters of the Wolf
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Mika Pohjola
The nominees of the prestigious Nordic Council Prize, The Daughters of the Wolf (Ulvens döttrar) continue their musical peregrinations through folk-tales from Åland ["Awe-lund"] Islands with their second release, “Blue Draught," containing original folk compositions. The album is a follow-up to the highly successful 2004 release, “Saga," also released on Blue Music Group. The three sisters have performed together since childhood with their exotic Nordic vocal sound self-accompanied by flutes, fiddle and drums. The trio received wide media acclaim as ...
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