Results for "Kasperi Sarikoski"

Kasperi Sarikoski

Kasperi Sarikoski is a trombonist and composer from Finland. Having lived in both Helsinki and New York as well as performed from São Paolo to Cape Town and Shanghai, Kasperi’s career has encompassed a broad array of musical ventures. He has played with the Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, the Stockholm Jazz Orchestra, the UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra, Chris Cheek, as well as most of Finland’s leading jazz musicians. In addition to his work as a sideman Kasperi has toured with his own group Nuance. His debut album Essence was released in 2015, while his sophomore effort 3 + 1 was released in 2020.

Aarni Häkkinen Jazz Orchestra

By Aarni Häkkinen

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)

Tobias Hoffmann Jazz Orchestra: Conspiracy

by Jack Bowers
October 29, 2022

While listening to Conspiracy, German-born composer-arranger Tobias Hoffmann's second album, the thought arose that “Stan Kenton would have loved this." Like Kenton, Hoffmann is an explorer who approaches music from a cerebral point of view but never overlooks the need to swing and to keep an audience engaged by varying the tone, tempo and color of ...

Three Plus One

By Kasperi Sarikoski

Label: Outside in Music
Released: 2020
Track listing: The Opening; Great Lawn Oval; Birchwood; Slow Morning Coffee; Onward And Upward; Leonard Street; Wide Lanes; Introduction To Such Sweet Sorrow; Such Sweet Sorrow; Wild Lanes (alternate take).

Kasperi Sarikoski: Three Plus One

by Friedrich Kunzmann
December 10, 2020

The trombone seems to be going through somewhat of a renaissance in 2020. That's only if a period when albums such as Grachan Moncur III's Some Other Stuff (Blue Note, 1965) were released can be considered the instrument's heyday in jazz. But fresh Norwegian input--captured on Oyvind Braekke's sextet release Wilderness (Oslo Recording Sessions, 2020)--graced the ...

Baby It's Nice Outside In

by Patrick Burnette
December 3, 2020

We take a break from surveying the best of the 2010's to take a gander at five releases from the second half of this wunnerful year, 2020. Maybe everything else has gone to heck in a handcart this year but the music releases remain strong, as our survey attests. Three of the five releases are on ...

Essence

By Kasperi Sarikoski

Label: Fredriksson Music
Released: 2015