Results for "Jaska Lukkarinen"

Jaska Lukkarinen

Last Dance

By Edward Partyka

Label: Neuklang Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: G.G.'s Last Dance; Para Nada; Dienda; Do As I Say (Not As I Do).

Music For Ukraine

by Ian Patterson
March 29, 2022

Music For Ukraine is a benefit album whose proceeds are intended solely for humanitarian aid in Ukraine. This gargantuan compilation features artists from the roster of Finnish label We Jazz Records. The twenty-six tracks--contemporary jazz for the most part, with the odd foray into modern chamber and electronica- tinged experimentalism--amount to two-and-a-half hours of compelling music. ...

Olli Ahvenlahti: Thinking, Whistling

by Anthony Shaw
December 6, 2017

When Mose Allison wrote in 1958 that 'a young man ain't got nothing in the world these days' he was probably not intending to make a philosophical statement--more a question of power politics. But now(adays) the line now suggests something else to me. I think neither Roger Daltrey nor I thought about it this way, at ...

3TM: Form

by Anthony Shaw
November 14, 2017

Teppo Mäkynen has been playing the Scandinavian jazz circuit for well over 20 years, typically as the drummer in the company of the Five Corners Quintet (which itself grew out of Nuspirit Helsinki), where he also partnered the featured bassist here, Antti Lötjönen. In this line up he was playing a type of post-bop acoustic jazz, ...

Pianisti a confronto al Ritmo delle Città

by Paolo Peviani
July 21, 2015

Ritmo delle Città Orto Botanico Milano 07-09.07.2015 Nella prima decade di luglio la rassegna milanese Il Ritmo delle Città ha messo al centro della propria programmazione il pianoforte. Tre le formazioni coinvolte, ciascuna a suo modo paradigmatica di un certo modo di intendere il jazz. C'era il virtuosismo sfrenato ...

NYConnection: Party Of Four

by Dan Bilawsky
February 13, 2013

The genesis of Party Of Four can be traced back to 2007, when a friendship of two was solidified. Finnish drummer Jaska Lukkarinen and Israeli pianist Roy Assaf found each other at that fateful point in their respective careers and, shortly thereafter, NYConnection was born. While the band took its maiden voyage as a piano trio ...

Trane Ear

By Jaska Lukkarinen

Label: RockAdillo
Released: 2009
Track listing: Segment; Stewardess; Double Fault; Mh2Ym Aka Substitute; I Guess I Had Something; Trane Ear ;Signal; Seven Steps To Heaven; Kiss The Joy.

Listen!

By Pekka Pylkkänen

Label: Lumino Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Rhythm Powder Escaping the Andes Senor Alejandro Old C Master Yoda Small Toes A Cry For Africa

Jaska Lukkarinen Trio: Trane Ear

by Anthony Shaw
June 11, 2009

This is an album with origins deep in the heart of the Finnish nu-jazz fraternity, featuring three alumni of the Folk and Jazz Department of the national Sibelius Academy. However Jaska Lukkarinen has learned more than just percussion and drums, having spent a season at the Manhattan School of Drumming, where the concept of a drum-led ...