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Wadada Leo Smith and Tumo: Occupy the World
by Hrayr Attarian
Trumpeter, composer and multi-instrumentalist Wadada Leo Smith's career has been one of relentless exploration and bold innovation. His timeless works have always eschewed narrow categorization and shattered musical boundaries. Now, in the eight decade of his life his creative vision has matured without losing any of its youthful energy. On the heels of his epic Pulitzer ...
Esa Helasvuo: Stella Nova
by Eyal Hareuveni
Pianist Esa Helasvuo is one of the pioneers of the Finnish improvised music scene. An experienced artist and former educator at the acclaimed Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Helasvuo has collaborated with the best improvisers in that scene--including drummer Edward Vesala, bassist Teppo Hauta-aho and saxophonist Juhani Aaltonen--and composed music for various orchestras and choirs, as well ...
Verneri Pohjola & Black Motor: Rubidium
by Eyal Hareuveni
Black Motor is Finland's leading trio of free jazz that began to gain a wider recognition outside Finland in recent years. Since its foundation around 2005, the central Finland, Tampere-based proletariat trio expanded its muscular, uncompromising post-Albert Ayler and Peter Brötzmann approach as it began to collaborate with fellow, innovative Finnish improvisers as saxophonist Juhani Aaltonen, ...
Conversations
Label: TUM Records
Released: 2012
Track listing: CD1: When I Was With You; So Much Happened...; What We Cannot Imagine; ...It Happened
Today; Le Petit Soldat; Just Like a Dream; You and the Night and the Music; Evening Prayer.
CD2: From Nothing; No Work Bound Me; Free Souls; The Sea in the Moonlight; War Trane;
Peace Talk; Alone Together; Evening Haze.
2012 Umea Jazz Festival: Umea, Sweden, October 24-28, 2012
by John Kelman
Umeå Jazz Festival Umeå, Sweden October 24-28, 2012 Nestled about 20 kilometers from the coast of the Baltic Sea in northern Sweden, connected by the Ume River, sits Umeå (pronounced: ooo-me-oh), a town of about 120,000 (including the surrounding region). Small it may be, but since 1968 it has hosted an annual ...
Pori Jazz Festival: Pori, Finland, July 19-21, 2012
by Anthony Shaw
Pori Jazz Festival uLTRA mUSIC nIGHTSPori, FinlandJuly 19-21, 2012 On a scale of 1-10, summertime activity in the capital of this northerly European nation barely registers a “1," whilst in the normally sleepy western coastal town of Pori it is topping out for the penultimate week of July. It's the ...
Juhani Aaltonen / Heikki Sarmanto: Conversations
by Raul d'Gama Rose
The splendid music on Conversations is as close to the celebration of Impressionism in modern music as possible. It is true that saxophonist Juhani Aaltonen and pianist Heikki Sarmanto create epic narratives here, and also true that both act as characters in those narratives. Of greater significance, however, is the extraordinary emotion of these musical stories, ...
Juhani Aaltonen - Heikki Sarmanto: Conversations
by AAJ Italy Staff
È recente le ristampa da parte dell'ECM di alcune incisioni del periodo 1975-1978 del contrabbassista Arild Andersen in cui l'allora giovane sassofonista finlandese Juhani Aaltonen metteva in evidenza tutto il suo valore. Una carriera la sua che si æ per lo più svolta in patria o in Scandinavia, fra orchestre e combo, ovunque ci fosse un ...
Olavi Trio & Friends: Triologia
by Eyal Hareuveni
The most famous Olavi in history of modern Finnish music may be Olavi Virta, the godfather of the Finnish Tango. The Olavi Trio has little in common with the famous Olavi; it just happens that everyone in this trio carries the middle name Olavi--two, as their official names despite being rarely known by it. These three ...
