Results for "Pekka"

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Pekka

Label: Edition Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: Dragon; First Morning; Inke and Me; Pinch; Madness Subsides; Benjamin; Innocent Questions.

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On this sophomore release with Edition Records Verneri Pohjola reinterprets the music of his late father, Pekka Pohjola. Pekka was an internationally acclaimed jazz- fusion/progressive-rock multi-instrumentalist, best known for his chops on the bass during his ventures in the 70s and 80s, collaborating, among others, with Mike Oldfield. Due to his father having been educated primarily ...

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Verneri Pohjola: Pekka

by Roger Farbey
May 22, 2017

The highly-anticipated follow-up to Verneri Pohjola's widely acclaimed 2015 album Bullhorn consolidates his position as Finland's foremost jazz musician. His prodigious talent is hardly surprising given that his late father was the internationally acclaimed jazz-influenced prog-rock bassist and composer Pekka Pohjola, who died in 2008 aged just 56. This album is a reworking of some of ...

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Verneri Pohjola: Pekka

by Karl Ackermann
May 20, 2017

Finnish multi-instrumentalist Pekka Pohjola was a classically trained pianist and violinist but known best as a bassist in his native country. The proponent of a unique fusion of jazz, progressive rock and classical music, his work had elements of Frank Zappa, King Crimson and Antonín Dvořák, sometimes all within a single composition. Pohjola died while only ...

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Pekka

By Pekka Pylkk

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Released: 1999

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Pekka Pylkk: Pekka

by C. Michael Bailey
July 1, 1999

The Contemporary Wisdom. No moss grows on Naxos Jazz. After addressing Mainstream, Hard Bop, Vocal, and Big Band Jazz, the label has firmly turned its attention to Contemporary Jazz with the releases of Pekka Pylkkänen’s Pekka’s Tube Factory (Putkipaja) and Sonic Fiction’s Changing With The Times. The Tube Factory. Taking time off as a member of ...