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Article: Live Review

Iiro Rantala al Pinocchio Live Jazz di Firenze

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Pinocchio Live Jazz Firenze 17.01.2015 Un jazz club può non apparire il luogo più adatto per mettere in scena un piano solo, tipo di performance che richiede attenzione e raccoglimento per essere apprezzata. Ma quando l'interprete del piano solo è non solo bravissimo, ma anche creativo, pirotecnico, ironico, irruente, ...

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Iiro Rantala at Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane

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Iiro Rantala Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane Dublin March 8, 2015 There's a commonly held belief that anything that is free can't be worth a damn. Not so. Luckily, thanks to Dublin City Council, the Arts Council of Ireland and Improvised Music Company, spring in the Irish capital welcomes not ...

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Jazz At Berlin Philharmonic I

Label: ACT Music
Released: 2013
Track listing: 01. Aria And Goldberg Variation (Johann S. Bach) - 07:12; 02. Tears For Esbjörn (Iiro Rantala) - 06:53; 03. Hexentanz (Michael Wollny) - 10:22; 04. No Message (Leszek Mozdzer) - 05:28; 05. Incognitor (Leszek Mozdzer) - 05:33; 06. Svantetic (Krzysztof Komeda) - 06:34; 07. Suffering (Lars Danielsson) - 08:08; 08. Armando's Rumba (Chick Corea) - 06:16.

News: Festival

Hong Kong International Jazz Festival Attracts Top Names

Hong Kong International Jazz Festival Attracts Top Names

The Hong Kong International Jazz Festival is back with a host of great jazz from the 29th September to the 2nd October. Now in its sixth edition, this most iconic of Asian cities provides a spectacular backdrop to a truly exciting series of concerts featuring top international names including the Asaf Sirkis Trio, the Lars Danielsson ...

Article: Album Review

Iiro Rantala - Michael Wollny - Leszek Mozdzer: Jazz At Berlin Philharmonic 1

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Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic 1 documenta il concerto dell'11 dicembre 2012 alla Berlin Philharmonic di tre protagonisti del pianoforte nordeuropeo: il tedesco Michael Wollny, il finlandese Iiro Rantala e il polacco Leszek Mozdzer. Incidono tutti per l'ACT, l'etichetta tedesca che dalla morte di Svensson cerca nuovi protagonisti per un piano jazz di natura prettamente europea. La ...

Article: Album Review

Iiro Rantala: My History of Jazz

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Il pianista finlandese Iiro Rantala è uno dei jazzmen più apprezzati del mondo scandinavo e in questo nuovo lavoro ripercorre i temi centrali della sua formazione musicale, in cui riveste uno spazio importante la musica classica in generale e Bach in particolare. Questo tipo di riflessioni sul passato e sui motivi ispiratori si compie generalmente a ...

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My History Of Jazz

Label: ACT Music
Released: 2012
Track listing: Aria / Goldberg Variation No. 1; Liza; Goldberg Improvisation I; Caravan; Eronel; Goldberg Improvisation II; Americans In Paris; Bob Hardy; Goldberg Improvisation III; September Song; Danny's Dream; Goldberg Improvisation IV; Smoothie; Goldberg Improvisation V; What Comes Up, Must Come Down; Uplift; Aria.

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Article: Album Review

Iiro Rantala: My History Of Jazz

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It is perhaps an odd history of jazz that opens and closes with a composition by Johann Sebastian Bach, but My History Of Jazz is a very personal history, the history of Finnish pianist Iiro Rantala. His previous album, Lost Heroes (ACT Music, 2011), was a solo piano recording; full of mesmerizingly beautiful music, it was ...

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Lost Heroes

Label: ACT Music
Released: 2011
Track listing: Pekka Pohjola; Waltz for Bill; Can't Get Up; Tears for Esbjörn; Thinking of Misty; Jean and Aino; Donna Lee; One More Waltz for Michel Petrucciani; Bluesette; Intermezzo.

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Iiro Rantala: Lost heroes

Read "Lost heroes" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay


German record label ACT Music is rapidly cornering the market in stylish solo piano albums. With Finnish pianist Iiro Rantala's Lost Heroes, it adds another distinctive and glorious recording to its collection, alongside Gwilym Simcock's Good Days At Schloss Elmau (2011) and Danilo Rea's A Tribute To Fabrizio De André (2010), among others. ...


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