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Olavi Louhivuori

Born: July 13, 1981

Born into a musical family, Olavi Louhivuori grew up in Jyväskylä, Central-Finland, surrounded by music and musicians. His father is a professor at Music Department of the University of Jyväskylä and mother a violinist and music teacher. Everyone of the seven member Louhivuori family plays an instrument. Olavi began studying violin at the age of 4, but changed to cello and piano at the age of 8. He started playing drums at the age of 9 when he was accpeted into the music class of his primary school.

In 1998 Olavi enrolled at the Finnish Music Conservatory of Jyväskylä for 3 years. There he joined numerous different jazz groups, including the Joona Toivanen trio and the Jyväskylä Junior Big Band. Being a familiar face in the local Jazz Bar gave him a perfect opportunity to perform and jam with local and international musicians such as Jukka Perko and Indgrid Jensen, to name but a few. The Joona Toivanen trio opened the jam sessions there every Tuesday night for three years.

Rosendals Garden

By Yelena Eckemoff

Label: L & H Production
Released: 2026
Track listing: CD 1: ABBA Museum; Rosendals Garden; Gamla Stan; Country Orchard Café; Öresund Bridge. CD 2: Skansen Park; Sunrise in Rimbo; Ruins of Älvsborg; Storanden Nature Reserve; Strandvägen Pier; Gripsholm Castle.

Yelena Eckemoff: Adventures of the Wildflower

by Tyran Grillo
September 12, 2026

Yelena Eckemoff's Adventures of the Wildflower begins beneath the thinnest layer of perception. Its governing question concerns who receives recognition and what can survive being misread. A columbine enters the world as possibility. Decreed a weed, she later flowers beyond that verdict. Eckemoff turns this botanical fable into a meditation on exclusion and hidden continuity. Her ...

Yelena Eckemoff: Blooming Tall Phlox

by Tyran Grillo
January 23, 2017

For this quintet outing, pianist and composer Yelena Eckemoff is joined by Verneri Pohjola on trumpet and flugelhorn, Panu Savolainen on vibraphone, Antti Lotjonen on double bass, and Olavi Louhivuori on drums and percussion. Together they move through a sequence of 15 originals that feel less composed than remembered, as though the music were lifted from ...

Alexi Tuomarila: Departing the Wasteland

by Geannine Reid
January 5, 2026

Finnish pianist and composer Alexi Tuomarila's fourth album on Edition Records marks a new blending of his long-standing trio with expansive orchestrations and subtle electronic textures with Departing the Wasteland. Anchored by his collaboration with bassist Mats Eilertsen and drummer Olavi Louhivuori, the album reflects the trio's dynamic chemistry after two decades of explorations, which now ...

SoundScapes #4 Berlin 2023 silent green

By Harri Sjostrom

Label: FSR
Released: 2025
Track listing: Cheers for Good Times!; Noniin; Chamberliners; One Day We'll Meet Again; One Flew Over; Flight Modes; Nomikäettei; Born in Italy; Shall We Dance?; Q.M. #4; Mother's Delight; It's An Ö-B-A-G-F; Treasures Beyond; If I Had a Wish; Tuuli; Irresistible Three; Twoowt; Canzone di Tristano.

Live in Helsinki

By Mark O'Leary

Label: TIBProd Italy
Released: 2025

Departing the Wasteland

By Alexi Tuomarila

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: Towards Dark Light; Gaman; Watchtower Hill; Inner Wasteland; August; Moreeni; Aether; Circle.

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By Superposition

Label: We Jazz Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Clouding; Clashes; Huia; Elfvik; Superseven; KMT; Angel Oak; To Dream; Uuz nousee.

Belgrade Jazz Festival 2023

by Martin Longley
December 21, 2023

Dom Omladine / MTS Dvorana Belgrade, SerbiaOctober 24-29, 2023 Following the financial turbulence of 2022's Belgrade Jazz Festival, this year's edition, the 39th, resounded with a sturdier sureness, getting back to a confident momentum. Its programme was as reliably impressive as ever, particularly in the quality of its international bookings. We ...