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We Jazz Records: Finland's indie label shaking up the global conversation
by Rob Garratt
The past decade's genre-bending jazz renaissance has been well-documented, but between the trailblazing players taking improvised music to increasingly hip places, and the ever-growing audience queuing up to hear them, sits the homegrown labels bottling these brave, thrilling (r)evolutions for all to hear. In conversations about the state of jazz today, it's often easier to distil ...
Pori Jazz 2022
by Rob Garratt
Pori Jazz 2022 Kirjurinluoto Concert Park Pori, Finland July 14-16, 2022 If this year's 55th annual Pori Jazz festival had a “moment," it was when Immanuel Wilkins invited Shabaka Hutchings to the stage as a surprise guest for a dazzling 14-minute duet that capped the former's spellbinding set, ...
Raoul Björkenheim and eCsTaSy at Sello Hall in Espoo
by Anthony Shaw
Raoul Björkenheim and eCsTaSy with Juhani Aaltonen Sello Hall Espoo, Finland March 25, 2022 When guitarist Raoul Björkenheim and the rest of the all-Finnish eCsTaSy took the stage at the local arts venue in Espoo, the audience were still streaming into the the hall after the intermission--such ...
Naissam Jalal - The Quest of the Invisible at Savoy Theater in Helsinki
by Anthony Shaw
Naissam Jalal -The Quest of the Invisible Savoy Theater Helsinki, Finland February 22, 2022 Naissam Jalal was everything this audience needed on a very snowy February evening in downtown Helsinki. Not only had the concert already been postponed for two years, but it happened to coincide with the second ...
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Kirsi-Marja Harju
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Kirsi-Marja “Kiki” Harju (1993) is a Finnish trumpet player, singer, bandleader and composer based in
Amsterdam. “I didn’t choose the trumpet, the trumpet chose me,” she recalls. “I wanted to play
everything else, particularly violin, but as a kid I made mistakes in the music school exam, I was so
nervous.” She was put into the wind department, given a pocket trumpet and soon found she could play
beautiful melodies. She also sang. “My friends said I was too loud but I loved it. I was in choirs and vocal
groups at school. Later I heard Chet Baker and realised I could combine the two.”
She has studied music both in Finland and in The Netherlands, and lastly she graduated from the jazz
department of Conservatorium van Amsterdam in 2019
Y-Otis at Raahe's Festival by the Beach
by Anthony Shaw
Y-Otis with Otis Sandsjö Ruiskuhuone Stage Jazz on the Beach Raahe, Finland July 31,2021 Many events haven't happened these last two summer seasons, and Otis Sandsjö's participation in the 36th Raahe Jazz on the Beach almost didn't happen. But, like many things that aren't expected to materialize, this particular show was ...
December jazz in Helsinki
by Anthony Shaw
Daniel Erdmann's Velvet Revolution and others Hietsun Paviljonki and various venues On-line concerts Helsinki, Finland December 1-2, 2020 Two evenings of live youthful jazz events opened December's musical fare at a time of sparse availability of live concerts around the globe: Daniel Erdmann's Velvet Revolution, and the We-Jazz sponsored ...
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Mathias Sandberg
He has been called "one of Finland's best kept secrets", the highly acclaimed jazz guitarist and composer Mathias Sandberg is one of the hardest working musicians in the country.
For the past 15 years, he has been touring with some of the greatest artist on the Nordic jazz scene, including Georg Riedel, Pierre Swärd, Peter Asplund, Nick Mancini, Jukka Eskola, Teppo Mäkynen, Manuel Dunkel and many others. Sandberg plays a hundred or so concerts a year and has toured both Europe and the United States.
Sandberg's 2020 album The Doctor received both huge critical review and airplay on jazz radio stations in Europe, United States, South America, Asia and Australia.
We jazz festival 2019
by Anthony Shaw
We Jazz Festival Finland & Estonia 7th We Jazz Festival Helsinki, Tampere & Tallinn December 1-8, 2019 Two things are always certain about the We Jazz Festival in Finland, and neither involve death or money. The concert tickets are modest by Scandinavian scales, tho' pricey for Central Europeans. The most ...
Some small steps for jazz
by Anthony Shaw
Rantajatsit Jazz onthe Beach Raahe, Finland July 25-27, 2019 Raahe is a small town on the north west coast of Finland renowned if anything for the antiquity of its planning, much of which survives despite a fire in 1810 and an attack by the British navy in 1855 when the ...
