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The Five Corners Quintet: Trading Eights
by Ludovico Granvassu
The Five Corners Quintet was a Finnish combo that doubled as both launchpad and meeting point--bringing together up-and-coming players and established figures alike, with veteran Eero Koivistoinen as well as younger musicians including Timo Lassy (saxophones), Jukka Eskola (trumpet and flugelhorn), Kim Rantala and Mikael Jakobsson (piano), Antti Lötjönen and Tapani Nevalainen (bass), and Teppo Mäkynen ...
I Dischi del 2024 secondo Ludovico Granvassu
by Ludovico Granvassu
Spesso molti articoli sulle “migliori uscite dell'anno" iniziano con una premessa quasi apologetica ("questi non sono necessariamente 'i migliori album dell'anno,' ma 'i miei preferiti';" “è tutto soggettivo;" “domani avrei scelto titoli diversi;" “ho potuto selezionare solo dieci album," ecc.)? Queste dichiarazioni sembrano riflettere il disagio del redattore, costretto a riassumere un vasto ecosistema artistico selezionando ...
Ludovico Granvassu's Garden of Jazzy Delights 2024
by Ludovico Granvassu
Have you noticed how many “best of the year" listicles start with an apologetic preamble ("these are not necessarily 'the best albums of the year' but 'my favorites';" “it's all subjective;" “tomorrow I might have chosen different titles;" “I could only select ten albums" etc.)? Those disclaimers channel the writer's discomfort of having to summarize a ...
A Few of My Favorite 2024 Jazz Things (so far), Part 3
by Ludovico Granvassu
Welcome to the third part of our retrospective on some of the tunes we have loved the most in the first half of the year. We hope you do too! Happy listening! Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Jukka Eskola, Timo Lassy “The Duke of ...
Aarni Häkkinen Jazz Orchestra
Label: Bopcat Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Audiomania,
Compassion,
Paint With What You Have,
Straight To Agora,
Steamtrolling,
The Wheel,
Why Woodn't You (Play the Blues)
Flow Festival 2023
by Rob Garratt
Flow Festival Suvilahti, Helsinki, Finland August 11-13, 2023 The stark quantity and sheer quality of improvised and instrumental music on offer at Finland's Flow Festival only starts to make sense when you dig into its roots. Once loudly crowned by Vogue as “the Nordics countries' coolest festival"--a fact the event's ...
Upon First Impression
By Saku Mantere
Label: Orchard of Pomegranates
Released: 2022
Track listing: 1. And Death Shall Have No Dominion (Saku Mantere / Dylan Thomas) 05:50
2. Time (Tom Waits) 06:06
3. Wedding Poem (Saku Mantere / Norman Cristofoli) 03:36
4. Building You, Building Me (Saku Mantere) 04:05
5. Open Secrets (Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson / Neil Peart) 06:57
6. Radio Silence (Saku Mantere) 05:07
7. I Think It’s Time to Say Goodbye Again (Stanley Cowell / Debby Randolph) 05:51
8. Countdown (John Coltrane / Saku Mantere) 04:41
9. The Professional (Saku Mantere) 03:47
10. Leap of Faith (Saku Mantere) 04:36
Building You, Building Me
Album: Upon First Impression
By Saku Mantere
Label: Orchard of Pomegranates
Released: 2022
Duration: 04:05
Espoo Big Band: Espoo Suite
by Jack Bowers
Almost forty years after its inception in 1980, Finland's world-class Espoo Big Band and composer / arranger Marzi Nyman have recorded an often brash and always impressive salute to their home base, the appropriately named Espoo Suite. “This is my attempt to describe [the city]," Nyman writes, “through free-associative composing." The word “free" aptly expresses Nyman's ...
