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Jazz Finland Festival / European Jazz Conference 2014
by Ian Patterson
Jazz Finland Festival/European Jazz Conference Hotel Crowne Plaza/Various Venues Helsinki, Finland September 18-21, 2014 When the steamship RMS Andania docked in the port of Helsinki in 1926 it unloaded more than just cargo. The American jazz group the Andania Yankees that disembarked stayed for two months and effectively kick-started jazz ...
Tunto: Huvi
by Anthony Shaw
Tunto is a band providing what its Finnish name can be translated into -'a sense of feeling.' Although described disparagingly in one reviewer as veering towards New Age, this is music for a variety of moods. This is reflected in the song titles, on this their fourth to album to date, ranging from Stalking Music via ...
Henrik Otto Donner & Tumo: And It Happened…
by Alberto Bazzurro
Registrato a fine ottobre 2012, ad appena otto mesi dalla scomparsa del musicista finlandese Henrik Otto Donner (16.11.39 / 26.06.13), il presente CD contiene otto pagine del succitato compositore (già allievo di Ligeti, nonché attivo anche nel campo della canzone engagée, della musica contemporanea ed elettronica), pagine variamente riuscite in base alla presenza o meno della ...
Raoul Bjorkenheim and eCsTaSy: eCsTaSy
by Dave Wayne
For me, guitarist Raoul Bjorkenheim is one of those musicians whose albums are always the subject of eager anticipation. His playing is both emotionally cathartic and intellectually gratifying. His highly-charged, utterly distinctive and immediately recognizable sound has been at the center of a number of fascinating cooperative groups over the past few years, including Scorch Trio ...
Iro Haarla Sextet: Kolibri
by Neri Pollastri
Primo album per il sestetto “finlandese" di Iro Haarla, pianista, arpista e compositrice che dalle collaborazioni con Edward Vesala negli anni Settanta a oggi ha attraversato numerosi stilemi e generi, e che negli ultimi anni si sta facendo particolarmente apprezzare. Questa formazione--che affianca due quintetti, uno finnico-norvegese con il quale Haarla ha pubblicato due apprezzati lavori ...
Juhani Aaltonen Celebrates the Heroes of Finnish Jazz
by Eyal Hareuveni
Since its inception, the Finnish Tum label's aim was to document the current, local jazz scene and to position it in a broader perspective--from seminal influences by local heroes, musicians from the first generation of Finnish Jazz, and formative forces from European jazz, mainly the Scandinavian ones. Almost 80-year old sax hero Juhani Aaltonen, born in ...
Jarmo Saari's Republic at April Jazz in Tapiola, Finland
by Anthony Shaw
Jarmo Saari's Republic Louhisali April Jazz Tapiola, Espoo, Finland April 26, 2014 Spring in the north of Europe is long awaited after the long dark winter months, and with the yearly arrival of April Jazz in the eastern Helsinki suburb of Tapiola the ears of the city's musical community inevitably ...
An Intriguing Twofer from TUM Records: Henrik Otto Donner's And It Happened and Juhani Aaltonen's To Future Memories
by Hrayr Attarian
The Finnish label TUM has made its mission to shed light on native talent. The world at large is familiar with a few of the country's improvisers, like drummer Edward Vesala and saxophonist/flutist Esa Pethman, but many other, equally gifted musicians remain obscure to non-Finns. In the span of 11 years since its inception, TUM has ...
Equally Stupid: Exploding Head
by Anthony Shaw
This first album released on Eclipse Music by 3 Nordic young male improvisers sees the fruit of time spent together in small practice rooms. It is tight, driving music, often with more than an occasional comic twist in the tail. With an eye, or probably more a highly tuned ear, to the dance-ability of their music ...
Juhani Aaltonen: To Future Memories
by Glenn Astarita
Preeminent Finnish saxophonist Juhani Aaltonen is approaching his 80th birthday and continues to meld his technical artistry with fresh concepts. This album features compositions by composer and bassist Antti Hytti, who penned many of these works for movies and short films, featuring the saxophonist performing on the originals. Aaltonen alternates between tenor sax and ...
