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Article: Interview

Jussi Reijonen: Memory and Consciousness Not Visited Before

by Dean Nardi
August 16, 2026

In 2025, Finnish guitarist and oud player Jussi Reijonen launched sayr, his intimate series of recordings for solo string instrument with simultaneous release of two stunning albums. One is a fully improvised take at his home studio on steel-string acoustic guitar on an afternoon in March 2025, split into two contrasting arcs--"salt" and “thirst"--as on two ...

Article: Album Review

Jussi Reijonen: Sayr: Salt | Thirst

Read "Sayr: Salt | Thirst" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
November 13, 2025

Listening to Finish guitarist/oudist Jussi Reijonen's Sayr: Salt | Thirst without delving into his rich backstory is a journey into two extended solo guitar pieces that play out as ruminative dream states. Concentrating on just the sound, images of Lightnin' Hopkins might come to mind: the bluesman huddled down in a small, dim hotel room after ...

Article: Building a Jazz Library

Horace Silver: His Only Mistake Was To Smile

by Chris May
August 29, 2022

In his sleeve note for the audio restored Horace Silver album Live New York Revisited (ezz-thetics, 2022), British writer Brian Morton cut to the chase. “[Silver]'s only mistake," he wrote, “was to smile while he was playing... a challenge to the notion that jazz should be deadly serious and played with a pained rictus."

Article: Live Review

Roseanna Vitro at Jazz at the Joint

by C. Michael Bailey
June 20, 2022

Roseanna Vitro Jazz At The Joint North Little Rock, AR May 9, 2021 In Arkansas, when Spring smiles, she reveals a gold incisor of Summer, promising humid warmth and languid pace. So it was entering The Joint Comedy Theater in North Little Rock, on May 9. However, on the second Monday ...