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Johanna Grussner

Mrs Grüssner was born in The Åland Islands, Finland 1972. She was a scholarship student at Berklee College of music in Boston where she gratuated 1996 with a Bachelor’s degree in music education. She produced her first CD ”Johanna Grüssner Band” 1995. Mrs Grüssner moved straight to New York City where she continued her musical studies at Manhattan School of Music and graduated in 1998 with a Master’s degree in jazz performance. That same Spring she released her second album ”Live at Hubbard Hall” with her own 19-piece big band ”The Johanna Grüssner Manhattan Jazz Orchestra”

The Real Swedish Essential Songs - Beyond Abba - Now Released

August 13, 2014

A fruitful cooperation spanning twenty years, vocalist Johanna Grüssner and pianist-composer Mika Pohjola release their twenty-five best tracks on a celebration album, Swedish Songs: The Essential Collection. Grüssner and Pohjola have worked closely since the 1990s, when they were students at the renowned Berklee College of Music in Boston. They later performed and recorded on the ...

Pianist Mika Pohjola Presents A Stockholm Concert Series

June 22, 2014

Pianist and composer Mika Pohjola presents a weekly concert series at the Finnish Church (Finska Kyrkan/Suomalainen Kirkko) in Stockholm spanning July and August 2014. The series features notable guest artists from Sweden and Finland, in a duo and trio format, who will perform with Pohjola every Wednesday starting at 11:30 am. They will present music in ...

Swedish Children's Classics Revamped On "Nu Ska Vi Sjunga"

October 4, 2013

Swedish singing tradition is alive and well. In the latest of revamped versions of children's classics, vocalist Johanna Grüssner and arranger-composer Mika Pohjola interpret forty songs from the Nu ska vi sjunga (Now We Shall Sing) songbook. The album embraces the rich Swedish singing tradition and is in accordance with the Orff & Kodály method tuned ...

Mika Pohjola, Dan Loomis, Kyle Struve: Trio Hour

by Chris Mosey
September 15, 2013

Mika Pohjola is a man of many talents. He runs the New York-based Blue Music Group--"the small label with big music." He has collaborated on albums of religious and traditional Finnish, Swedish music, given classical recitals, accompanied vocalists Jill Walsh and Johanna Grüssner and gigged with diverse jazz aggregations. It would be a ...

Come Rain Or Come Shine

By Johanna Grussner

Label: Prophone Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: Caravan; Come Rain Or Come Shine; Save Your Love For Me; A Felicidade (Happiness); Honeysuckle Rose; Moon And Sand; How Long Has This Been Going On?; Norwegian Wood; One Note Samba; Chiquilin de Bachin (Little Guy At Bachin's).

Johanna Grussner: From Scandinavia to NYC... and back again

by Chris Mosey
November 30, 2010

Johanna Grüssner is a truly remarkable young woman. Aged 28, she has emerged as one of the best, most professional jazz singers in the Nordic Area after paying her dues in the toughest environment jazz has to offer; gigging around clubs in New York City, including Birdland, where she sang backed by a big band she ...

Johanna Grussner: Come Rain Or Come Shine

by Chris Mosey
November 24, 2010

Her clear-as-a-bell vocals, assured phrasing and near perfect grasp of English put Johanna Grüssner right at the top of the current crop of Scandinavian female jazz singers. Come Rain Or Come Shine is her third solo album and best yet: a gently swinging, highly enjoyable mix of straight jazz and Brazilian samba, performed with supreme professionalism. ...

Jazz pianist Mika Pohjola releases "101 Compositions"

October 21, 2010

One Hundred One compositions by Mika Pohjola is one of most important musical statements to-date by the Finnish-born New York jazz pianist who also writes classical music. In 2009, Pohjola was cited as one of fifty “most influential pianists since 1990," by Jazz, a 700- page book on jazz history, authored by Gary Giddins and Scott ...

No More Blues

By Johanna Grussner

Label: Naxos Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Out Of This World; The Touch Of Your Lips; My Ship; No More Blues; The Very Thought Of You; I'm Old Fashioned; Help; The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face; Hallelujah I Just Love Him So; Desfinado