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April Jazz Festival in Espoo, Finland

Read "April Jazz Festival in Espoo, Finland" reviewed by Anthony Shaw


April Jazz Espoo, Finland April 26-30, 2017 April in southern Finland is a time of rapidly lengthening daylight and often crystalline blue skies heralding spring. This year though relentless gray skies and bitter winds made the appeal of a long weekend of top class jazz an even stronger motivation to ignore the ...

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Jukka Perko Avara: Invisible Man

Read "Invisible Man" reviewed by Anthony Shaw


The three major names in the Finnish jazz world featured here come from three very different corners of the firmament. Jukka Perko achieved global recognition as a youth playing alto and soprano saxophone with Thelonius Monk, while guitarists Teemu Viinikainen and Jarmo Saari are better known in Scandinavia, the latter also for his proggy and pop ...

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Jarmo Saari's Republic at April Jazz in Tapiola, Finland

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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 ...

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The Making of Love

Label: RockAdillo
Released: 2007
Track listing: Glow (Opening); Passion; Desire; Senses; Pleasure; Tease; Souls; Lust; Faith; Embrace (Closing).

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Jarmo Saari SOLU: The Making of Love

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As Jarmo Saari explains on his website, the topic of The Making of Love has motivated and emasculated humankind since the beginning of time. So do we need yet another interpretation? The album expands the Finnish guitarist's already long discography, which ranges from a big band suite for the UMO Jazz Orchestra to his first solo ...

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Solu

Label: RockAdillo
Released: 2004
Track listing: Solu: Scroll; Spiral; Hurry?; Raw Beauty; Sing Lctrncs Sing; Morphosis; Ballad (wings, feather, space). Insects: cyba pedail; mad nest; Kanon; Alarmo (I created a monster); Blow.

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Jarmo Saari: Solu

Read "Solu" reviewed by Anthony Shaw


The use of realia on disc might well have gone the same way as Syd Barrett's homemade attempts to capture the sounds of a live motorbike for his piece Rhamadan--into the cutting bin. But his progenitors succeeded with the same sound for Atom Heart Mother , and the recording industry progressed towards today's super sampling scenario. ...

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Article: Interview

Jarmo Saari: Portrait Of A Guitarist As A Young Man

Read "Jarmo Saari: Portrait Of A Guitarist As A Young Man" reviewed by Anthony Shaw


Among the countless number of strummers and pickers the world over, there may be a small fraction who do not consider themselves to be artists! There must also be a small number who have only produced a handful of well-respected though modestly selling albums, but who still consider that the meaning of their lives is defined ...

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Jarmo Saari Filmtet: A Tribute to Finnish Cinema

Read "A Tribute to Finnish Cinema" reviewed by Matthew Wuethrich


One of the few things more obscure than Finnish jazz is Finnish cinema, and even more obscure would be Finnish film music. Guitarist Jarmo Saari fuses together these little known elements and creates a surprising and delightful jazz revue of all three. In the process, Saari's Filmtet also highlights the strengths and weaknesses of many contemporary ...

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A Tribute to Finnish Cinema

Label: EMI Music
Released: 2001
Track listing: Prologi; Rilluma-Rei!; Sinua, Sinua Rakastan; Lasisydan; Lumikuningatar; Paaskytorni; Sota ja Rauha; Klaani/Juha; Akselin ja Elinan Haavalssi.


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