Results for "Jaska Lukkarinen"

Jaska Lukkarinen

Live In Helsinki

By Timo Lassy

Label: We Jazz Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Moves; Mountain Man Exit / Orlo; Better Together; African Rumble; Rumble Outro; Love Bullet.

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 ...

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 ...

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