Results for "Jarmo Saari"

Jarmo Saari

Yelena Eckemoff: Adventures of the Wildflower

by Tyran Grillo
September 12, 2026

Yelena Eckemoff's Adventures of the Wildflower begins beneath the thinnest layer of perception. Its governing question concerns who receives recognition and what can survive being misread. A columbine enters the world as possibility. Decreed a weed, she later flowers beyond that verdict. Eckemoff turns this botanical fable into a meditation on exclusion and hidden continuity. Her ...

Maria Schneider & UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra at Savoy Theater, Helsinki

by Artur Moral
November 28, 2025

Maria Schneider & UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra Savoy-teatteri Helsinki, Finland November 13, 2025  The Finnish jazz community is celebrating--and by extension, so are those of Europe and, truth be told, the entire world. The reason is no small matter: the UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra marks its 50th anniversary, remaining faithful to ...

Adventures of the Wildflower

By Yelena Eckemoff

Label: L & H Production
Released: 2021
Track listing: CD1: In the Ground; Germination; Weeding The Garden; Dog Chasing A Mouse; Rain; Home By The Fence; Chickens; Drought; Thundershower. CD2: Winter Slumber; Waking Up In the Spring; Buds And Flowers; Butterflies; Hummingbirds; Children Playing With Seed Pods; Dying; Another Winter; Baby Columbines.

Blood Red

By Marzi Nyman

Label: Galileo Music
Released: 2021
Track listing: I, Satan; Istanbul; Siro Efendi (I am a Corpse); I am Called Kara/I, Sekure; Blood Red; I am a Gold Coin.

Yelena Eckemoff: Adventures of the Wildflower

by Mark Sullivan
July 15, 2021

The last time composer/pianist Yelena Eckemoff recorded in Finland she led a quintet on Blooming Tall Phlox (L&H Production, 2017). The program was devoted to smells, particularly the phlox flower and other scents remembered from childhood. Here she returns to Finland with a sextet (including several returning players, basically the entire rhythm section) and a related ...

Yelena Eckemoff: Adventures of the Wildflower

by Dan McClenaghan
March 10, 2021

The seeds of pianist-composer Yelena Eckemoff's Adventures Of The Wildflower were planted in 2013, when she traveled to Hollola, Finland, to record Blooming Tall Phlox (L&H Productions, 2017) with a group of young Finnish musicians. Several Eckemoff albums came about after that recording, but the experience with her Finnish friends must have exerted a sort of ...

Soldiers of Light

By Jarmo Saari

Label: Jarmo Saari Republic Music
Released: 2019
Track listing: The wunderers; Compassion; Organism; Polarized flow; My kinda woman; Radio Mammalia; Saffron tears (Dragomir); Polarised flow II; Aura.

Espoo Big Band: Espoo Suite

by Jack Bowers
August 9, 2019

Almost forty years after its inception in 1980, Finland's world-class Espoo Big Band and composer / arranger Marzi Nyman have recorded an often brash and always impressive salute to their home base, the appropriately named Espoo Suite. “This is my attempt to describe [the city]," Nyman writes, “through free-associative composing." The word “free" aptly expresses Nyman's ...

Jarmo Saari Republic: Soldiers of Light

by Anthony Shaw
March 27, 2019

In a video introducing this band, Jarmo Saari claims that in his career as Finland's most widely-recognized modern guitarist he is maybe in the wrong niche. But listening to his latest album, and comparing it to his first releases in the mid 1990s with ZetaBoo, even if he doesn't play drums it is obvious that he ...