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Antti Lotjonen Quintet East: ALQE

Read "ALQE" reviewed by Friedrich Kunzmann


Bassist Antti Lötjönen is anything but a small name in the Finnish jazz cosmos. Holding down the deep frequency spectrum in some of the country's most renowned instrumental outfits, such as the electronica-infused jazz trio 3TM or the acoustic Ilmiliekki Quartet, Lötjönen has established a cunning reputation as a sideman leading up to this, his debut ...

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Mikko Innanen

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Finnish saxophonist/composer Mikko Innanen (born in 1978) was severely bitten by the jazz bug at the age of 10, jamming along with Bird, Trane, Ornette, Monk et al (with their records, naturally). Hence, he has managed to achieve quite a lot by a relatively young age. He�'s a veteran of such Finnish bands as Mr Fonebone, Nuijamiehet, Gourmet, Teddy Rok 7, Innanen-Kallio Duo, and Loco Motife as well as Finnish-Danish units Triot, Itchy and Delirium and he has played and recorded with such international greats as Han Bennink, John Tchicai, Ingrid Jensen and Anders Bergkrantz. Since 2005 he has led the four-piece Mikko Innanen & Innkvisitio, concentrating on his most recent compositions

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Mikko Innanen: Autonomus I - XXX

Read "Autonomus I - XXX" reviewed by Anthony Shaw


Mikko Innanen has been a prolific saxophonist on the Finnish scene for so long that one can no longer refer to him as any sort of new boy in town. But with the passing of the years there have been changes of focus and style, and the release of the album Autonomus sees a new experimental ...

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Autonomus I - XXX

Label: Fiasko Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: I A, I B, II, III A et al.

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Article: Jazzin' Around Europe

The alpine Saalfelden 2019 experience

Read "The alpine Saalfelden 2019 experience" reviewed by Henning Bolte


Saalfelden? For those who don't already know, it is a small Austrian town in a magnificent alpine landscape in the Pinzgau, 70 km west of Salzburg, famous for its jazz festival in August and January and popular as a vacation and sport area. Character The festival has a great 40-years history having built a ...

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Espoo Big Band: Espoo Suite

Read "Espoo Suite" reviewed 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 ...

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Article: Live Review

Gourmet At April Jazz Club

Read "Gourmet At April Jazz Club" reviewed by Anthony Shaw


Gourmet April Jazz Club Espoo, Finland February 8, 2019 You can't judge a book--or a CD--by its cover, but the contents frequently become inexorably associated with the packaging. Visiting the April Jazz Club in early February to see a band called “Gourmet" might suggest tasty fare in leafy spring surroundings. The ...

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Live at Malmitalo

Label: Edgetone Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: Maahinen (Gnome) ;Intersections ;Summer Night ;Hämy ;Bark ;Lemi 0;Waiting for the fall ;Velkutus ;Ode to the Ceiling Light Buzz ;Yökyöpelit (Night Owls) ;HaKo ;Malmitalo

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Northern Fire

Label: Edgetone Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: A fire to freedom ;Vaahtopäät (Foamheads) ;Henkeä elämää (Spirit Life) ;Wind Spell ;Kun siat voivat lentää (When pigs fly) ;Aatto (vigil) ;Revontulet (aurora borealis) ;Ghost of Johnny Dodds ;Otherside ;A removal of obstacles ;Iberia ;It's never too late to release the bonds

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Article: Live Review

Tampere Jazz Happening 2018

Read "Tampere Jazz Happening 2018" reviewed by Mike Collins


Tampere Jazz Happening Tampere, Finland November 1-4, 2018 In Finland, as winter begins and the clocks change, the city of Tampere, a couple hours north of Helsinki, hosts its International Jazz Happening over a long weekend. The world comes to Tampere, and Finnish jazz gets to showcase its place and connections ...


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