Results for "Jukka Perko"

Jukka Perko

Adventures of the Wildflower

By Yelena Eckemoff

Label: L & H Production
Released: 2021
Track listing: CD1: In the Ground; Germination; Weeding The Garden; Dog Chasing A Mouse; Rain; Home By The Fence; Chickens; Drought; Thundershower. CD2: Winter Slumber; Waking Up In the Spring; Buds And Flowers; Butterflies; Hummingbirds; Children Playing With Seed Pods; Dying; Another Winter; Baby Columbines.

Eddie Sauter: A Wider Focus

by Chris May
March 22, 2021

For many people, composer and arranger Eddie Sauter's reputation begins and ends with Stan Getz's Focus (Verve, 1962). The album is, indeed, a masterpiece. But it is only one of the pinnacles of Sauter's career, which started during the swing era. Nor is Focus Sauter's only collaboration with Getz. The partnership continued with the less widely ...

Yelena Eckemoff: Adventures of the Wildflower

by Dan McClenaghan
March 10, 2021

The seeds of pianist-composer Yelena Eckemoff's Adventures Of The Wildflower were planted in 2013, when she traveled to Hollola, Finland, to record Blooming Tall Phlox (L&H Productions, 2017) with a group of young Finnish musicians. Several Eckemoff albums came about after that recording, but the experience with her Finnish friends must have exerted a sort of ...

Jan Lundgren: Potsdamer Platz

by Bruce Lindsay
February 3, 2017

Pianist Jan Lundgren is a fine example of a classically-trained European musician with a strong empathy with mainstream jazz. Potsdamer Platz is, in turn, a fine example of Lundgren's ability to compose fresh-sounding and often beautiful tunes, allied to a talented quartet of players who know just how to bring the pianist's ideas to life.

Invisible Man

By Jukka Perko

Label: ACT Music
Released: 2016
Track listing: Invisible Man; Like Father Like Son; Tears In Heaven; He Left The Road; Pimento; Sweet Solitude; Nameless Angel; Awakening; Helmi; Open Door; Don’t Give Up; Pavane.

We Jazz Festival 2016

by Anthony Shaw
December 15, 2016

We Jazz Festival 2016 Multiple venues Helsinki, Finland December 4-11, 2016 The winter We Jazz 'event' has been running for four years now, and founding mentor Matti Nives is somewhat challenged to find suitable new venues to take his artists to, having established a tradition of taking jazz to improbable ...

Jukka Perko Avara: Invisible Man

by Anthony Shaw
June 2, 2016

The three major names in the Finnish jazz world featured here come from three very different corners of the firmament. Jukka Perko achieved global recognition as a youth playing alto and soprano saxophone with Thelonius Monk, while guitarists Teemu Viinikainen and Jarmo Saari are better known in Scandinavia, the latter also for his proggy and pop ...

It takes two to Tango

By Jukka Perko

Label: ACT Music
Released: 2015
Track listing: My Sweetheart is Beautiful/Minun kultani kaunis on; Jealousy; Just Say I Love Her; For Mama; Therefore I'm sad; A Romance; A Blessing; I Will; Stella by Starlight; Love Is So Beautiful; Good Intentions; Finlandia [piano solo version; Finlandia [duo version].

Jukka Perko + Iiro Rantala: It takes two to Tango

by Anthony Shaw
May 3, 2015

This CD from two verging-on-veteran names on the Finnish jazz scene is a little disappointing in its energy, but not in its charm. Jukka Perko and Iiro Rantala have both earned their laurels years back, playing ear-bending, exhilarating jazz, the former with the likes of Dizzey Gillespie in his 1980s line-up and later McCoy Tyner, the ...