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Tampere Jazz Happening 2010: Day 2, November 5, 2010
by John Kelman
Day 1 | Day 2 | Days 3-4 Tampere Jazz HappeningTampere, FinlandNovember 4-7, 2010 Day two of Tampere Jazz Happening kicked the festival into high gear, with a terrific line-up at both the festival's primary venues: Pakkahuone's Old Customs House Hall, which seats upwards of a thousand people and is used ...
Take Five With Esa Pietila
by AAJ Staff
Meet Esa Pietilä:Esa´s original style and various projects--trio, new quartet (formed 2008, with ECM artist Iro Haarla, solo saxophone concerts and more, have stabilized his position performing on the national/international jazz circuit, and have led him to dates in Italy, Germany, Norway, Sweden, France, The Netherlands, Austria, Iceland, England, USA, Australia, New Zeeland, Brazil ...
JazzFest Berlin 2010 Programme Available & Tickets On Sale
JazzFest Berlin 2010—Goes Europe! This year's edition of the Berlin Jazz Festival (JazzFest Berlin 2010) will take place from November 3 to 7. Artistic director Nils Landgren and the Berliner Festspiele treat you to a resounding jazz experience with 23 events, more than 30 jazz ensembles and roughly 250 musicians. The recent festival focusses on the ...
The Iro Haarla Quintet at Scandinavia House
by Budd Kopman
The Iro Haarla Quintet at Scandinavia House, NYCScandinavia HouseNew York City, New YorkJune 16, 2008 There were not one but two reasons to be excited about attending this concert at Scandinavia House on this night. Pianist/harpist/composer Iro Haarla had never before played in New York City, so this was a ...
Northbound
By Iro Haarla
Label: ECM Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Avian Kingdom; Barcarole; With Thanksgiving; Time for Recollection; On a Crest of a Wave; Waterworn Rocks; Veil of Mist; Light in the Sadness; A Singing Water Nymph; Yarra, Yarra...; Northbound.
Iro Haarla: Northbound
by Budd Kopman
Beauty can mean many different things, but in my view of music, the concept centers around euphony, construction and the listener's emotional response. Consonant intervals, melodic lines that have internal logic, chord progressions that create and release tension, and timbres that blend together all work toward the beautiful. Add to this the mental imagery that some ...
Iro Haarla: Northbound
by Chris May
During the 1980s and '90s, Iro Haarla was content to keep away from the limelight and act as the generally unacknowledged inner architect of the music of her husband, drummer Edward Vesala, and his Sound & Fury group. Haarla met Vesala shortly after leaving Helsinki's Sibelius Academy in 1978, and until his death in 1999 she ...
Iro Haarla: Northbound
by AAJ Italy Staff
Sarà forse necessario, prima o poi, definire meglio e con precisione il famoso “stile ECM”, tanto noto e riconoscibile, quanto descritto in termini per lo più vaghi e in genere non sufficienti a definirne i tratti caratteristici (come del resto avviene per altri stilemi della musica improvvisata, o jazzistica che dir si voglia, come i riferimenti ...
Iro Haarla: Northbound
by John Kelman
Iro Haarla may not be particularly well-known, but the Finnish pianist/harpist's influence has been felt by anyone familiar with the work of her late husband, drummer Edward Vesala. According to saxophonist Trygve Seim--who not only played with Vesala towards the end of his life, but is also part of Haarla's quintet on her ECM debut, Northbound--Haarla ...
