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Scorch Trio in Tampere: If Hendrix and Coltrane had a Love Child...
by Matthew Wuethrich
Old Customs Hall Tampere, Finland November 1, 2003 The Scorch Trio is an explosion waiting to happen. But guitarist Raoul Björkenheim, bassist Ingebrit Flaten and drummer Pals-Nilssen Love never let the bomb go off, instead putting it on a long fuse and letting the tension mount. They are often labeled a power ...
Uri Caine's Bedrock 3 in Tampere: Too Many DJs
by Matthew Wuethrich
Old Customs Hall Tampere, Finland November 1, 2003 DJs have been playing more and more with live bands during the past decade and by now the novelty effect has worn off. Now bands must make creative use of the DJ for it to be effective. At the Tampere Jazz Happening, Uri Caine’s ...
Gnomus & Jukka Gustavsson in Tampere: The Wit of the Improviser
by Matthew Wuethrich
Telakka Tampere, Finland November 1, 2003 When new elements are injected into their environment, improvising groups can take one of two approaches: let the newcomer adapt to their style, creating creative tension, or adapt to the newcomer’s style, thereby changing their whole sound. The three members of the Finnish trio Gnomus-keyboardist Kari ...
William Parker's Healing Song in Tampere
by Matthew Wuethrich
Old Customs Hall Tampere, Finland November 1, 2003 Bassist and musical visionary William Parker says that by 2010 all musicians will be playing what he calls “cosmic music.” If images of everyone’s favorite Saturnian Sun Ra jump to mind, you wouldn’t be mistaken. Parker’s “Healing Song”, a collaboration with his wife the ...
Samuli Mikkonen in Tampere: Composed Moods and Spontaneous Energy
by Matthew Wuethrich
Old Customs Hall Tampere, Finland November 2, 2003 Since Louis Armstrong, jazz has been a soloist’s art form where listeners long to hear the individual unfold their emotions in either tightly-constructed phrases or volcanic bursts of sound. In contrast, classical music has built a tradition of expressing emotion through the ...
Louis Sclavis in Tampere: Memories of a Naples that Never Was
by Matthew Wuethrich
Old Customs Hall Tampere, Finland November 2, 2003 Memory holds a sprawling store of sensations, some of them real and some of them imagined. At its most powerful, memory merges the two to create an image that resonates with emotion and meaning. Napoli’s Walls, the latest project and album from ...
Triade with Mikko Innanen: The Improviser's Journey
by Matthew Wuethrich
Jazz Bar Jyväskylä, Finland October 24, 2003 An improviser searches for meaningful ways to connect one moment to the next; the meaning they find often depends on where they start. The French trio Triade and Finnish saxophonist Mikko Innanen understand just how valuable choosing the right starting point is. CD samples, Arnold ...
TUM Records: Putting Finnish Jazz Top-Shelf
by Matthew Wuethrich
Finland has been growing its own jazz dialect for over thirty years, developing a crop of world-class players that unfairly get only scant coverage outside their home country. Helsinki-based TUM Records, with three new releases in the past four months, are giving Finnish jazz the world-class presentation it deserves. Among the doom and gloom forecasts for ...
Musical Mutations: Farmer's Market at Finland's SummerJazz
by Matthew Wuethrich
“Holy Miscegenations, Batman!” “You’re right, Robin. They’ve crossbred pop, jazz, and various world musics with Bulgarian folk melodies! And yes, his accordion was hooked up to a Hammond amplifier. What should we make of this? Is it a comedy act? Hyper-charged Vaudeville for the Media Age? A post-modern joke? Improvised madness? Technical wizardry from a bunch ...
Chris Batchelor & Rob Townsend: London meets Finland at Jyv
by Matthew Wuethrich
After the relaxed polish of Charlie Mariano’s set, British horn players Rob Townsend and Chris Batchelor decided to give the audience a wake-up call. Together with three Finnish players-pianist Samuli Mikkonen, bassist Pekka Törmänen, and drummer Joonas Leppänen-they mixed up a dense brew of floating ambience, driving rhythms, focused solos and raw electronics. They generated a ...
