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Elifantree at Birdland, Helsinki
by Anthony Shaw
Elifantree Birdland Helsinki, Finland June 16, 2010 Birdland is the latest jazz venue to open in Helsinki, and as one can expect from a location that is as central as it is conventional, the fare is typically close to the middle of the road. However, in an attempt to woo ...
Kalle Kalima: Some Kubricks of Blood
by Anthony Shaw
From the opening flurry of discordant semitones, the following percussive entrance of saxophone and then guitar, it becomes clear that there is something rather weird and threatening about Some Kubricks of Blood. Much is surely due to the disharmonies and clashes of timbre--grating guitar over accordion gushes--and the abrupt rhythmic collisions, in addition to intentional off-mike ...
Finland's April Jazz Festival 2010
by Anthony Shaw
April Jazz Festival Espoo/Tapiola, Finland April 28-May 2, 2010 The wind in these northern climes can hit heavy, even during the sunny days of late April. This year an east wind drove down from the Arctic Ocean and any opportunity to get into the sun needed to be taken--but it's a sign ...
Vincent Courtois Quartet in Helsinki, November 9, 2009
by Anthony Shaw
Vincent Courtois Quartet Malmintalo - Helsinki, FinlandNovember 9, 2009 Vincent Courtois likens himself to an off-road, all-terrain vehicle: he takes his music to places where other cellists are reluctant to go. And it can't be denied after being in the company of his current quartet for an evening's entertainment that ...
Kalle Kalima and his Dance Suite for Domesticated Animals, Helsinki
by Anthony Shaw
UMO Jazz Orchestra and Kalle Kalima Korjaamo, Helsinki September 25, 2009 When a guitarist attempts to compose for big band, there's an expectation of strong rhythmic motifs, but when the musician concerned is as suffused in contemporary idioms as is Kalle Kalima one gets much more. The big band in ...
Helsinki Jazz Festival Moves to the Islands
by Anthony Shaw
Viapori Jazz Suomenlinna Islands, Helsinki, Finland August 26-29, 2009 In 1855 the British Navy did their very best to obliterate this fortress of seven linked islands just off the entrance to the harbor of Helsinki. The two-day bombardment is said to have sent almost 200 tons of iron raining down ...
Tunto Performs in Helsinki
by Anthony Shaw
Tunto Art Goes Kapakka Urho's PubHelsinki, Finland August 22, 2009 There's something rather reassuring about a band that takes the stage with only one microphone between its four members, especially when it's a pub venue. This might seem particularly unusual when one thinks that the group's name in the ...
Pori Jazz: Finland's Finest Festival
by Anthony Shaw
44th International Pori Jazz FestivalPori, FinlandJuly 10-18, 2009 Summer festivals have been a feature of the music scene probably since time immemorial--Wolfgang Mozart was very familiar with the concept at least, writing commissions for evening fêtes and soirées. And it has surely always been an inescapable fact that the weather can make or break ...
Jaska Lukkarinen Trio: Trane Ear
by Anthony Shaw
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 ...
Peloton: Funeral, Circus and other music
by Anthony Shaw
This might be something of a confusing album to track down, going under the same name as a Norwegian jazz quintet, issued on a little-known Finnish label, and featuring a style that is hard to readily classify. However, the big top featured on the cover sets the tone for this broad collection of pieces, as does ...
