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April Jazz Espoo 2009: Day 3 - 5
by Anthony Shaw
Day 1-2 | Day 3-5 April Jazz EspooInternational Jazz FestivalTapiola, Espoo, FinlandApril 22-26, 2009 Day 3 Friday was the night of major artists, hosting on three separate stages the Portuguese fado singer Ana Moura, local jazz pianist turned funk/soul crooner, Tuomo Prättälä sharing the bill with British hip-hopper Us3, and ...
April Jazz Espoo 2009; Day 1 - 2
by Anthony Shaw
Day 1-2 | Day 3-5 April Jazz EspooInternational Jazz FestivalTapiola, Espoo, FinlandApril 22-26, 2009No one would sensibly claim that Tapiola in Espoo, Finland is the location of the cutting edge of contemporary jazz, but this “little" major festival has seen many pioneering artists during its 22 years, including ...
RinneRadio: Pole Stars
by Anthony Shaw
Tapani Rinne is synonymous with the Finnish band Rinneradio, which he steered since its inception as an offshoot from fellow countryman Edvard Vesala in the late 1980s. Over the years, Rinne has ventured into the spheres of hip-hop and electronica, straight fusion, dark dub, lush ambient soundscapes, even Saami yoik singing. But always he has kept ...
La Campagnie des Musiques a Ouir in Helsinki
by Anthony Shaw
La CampagnieVuotaloHelsinki, FinlandMarch 27, 2009 We in the Anglophone world know and often regret that our close relatives across the Channel seem to possess a gene that lends their team performances an element of star-quality that seems to just flow effortlessly, when it works. This seems to be true in abundance ...
Sun Trio in Snowy Helsinki
by Anthony Shaw
Sun Trio Record Release Party Piano Bar, Helsinki, Finland January 20, 2009 I have to confess I was raised on an adolescent diet of power trio rock in late 1960s UK--Cream, the Groundhogs, Taste, not to mention Jimi. Oh the intensity! Could it be that we are programmed to respond ...
Remembering Pekka Pohjola
by Anthony Shaw
Regarded by all as the finest bass guitarist ever to come out of Finland, and a composer who inspired a whole generation of late twentieth century Finnish musicians, Pekka Pohjola died near Helsinki on November 27 2008, aged 56. Although he lived his last years far from the lime-lights which he frequented in the 1970s and ...
RinneRadio: RinneRadio 20th Anniversary Album
by Anthony Shaw
Tapani Rinne is a name as integral to the contemporary Finnish music scene as is Jean Sibelius. Which doesn't mean to say that Sibelius was a covert jazz connoisseur, nor that Rinne has achieved worldwide acclaim amongst the general listening public. But to any who have followed current trends in modern Scandinavian music, be it hip ...
Pasborg's Odessa 5 Blasts Helsinki
by Anthony Shaw
Pasborg's Odessa 5Rytmihairioklubi at Juttutupa Bar, HelsinkiOctober 1, 2008 Stefan Pasborg is yet another Nordic artist gradually raising his profile across international borders as he leads his new five-piece outfit around Europe this autumn. Started on his career with a gift of drums to the then 3-year-old boy from Godfather and ...
Arttu Takalo and Jarmo Saari: Brothers in Sound
by Anthony Shaw
To say that Finnish musicians Arttu Takalo and Jarmo Saari are joined at the hip is going a little too far, but the similarity of their trajectories over the past 15 years is incontrovertible. Having met during their study years at the Sibelius Academy of Music, cradle for many a budding jazz musician in the country, ...
Lenny Pickett playing Dance Music for Borneo Horns in Ekenas, Finland
by Anthony Shaw
Lenny Pickett and some Finnish friends RasePori Jazz Knipan, Ekenas, Finland July 27, 2008 Readers familiar with the New York experimental or art music scene will be familiar with Lenny Pickett from his residence there for the last 25 years, and his involvement with fellow musicians such as Kenny Werner ...
