Results for "Teppo Mäkynen"

Live Recordings 2019-2020

By Timo Lassy

Label: We Jazz Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Fallow; Zomp; Liberty; Hypno; Aero; Kobi; Solution Black; Ecru; Telemagenta; Calling James.

People Need People

By Nicola Conte

Label: Schema Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Hold On To Your Dreams; The Higher Love; Imani River; Nigeria; People Need People; Inner Light; New World Shuffle; Good Juju; African Spirits; Tribes; Mother Nature.

Alexander Hawkins, Michael Gregory Jackson & Cowboys & Frenchmen

by Maurice Hogue
March 10, 2021

New releases galore this edition to sift through and that's always enjoyable. Pianist Alexander Hawkins goes large ensemble on his new Togetherness Music and which is graced by the presence of the great Evan Parker; the Finnish duo of Timo Lassy and Teppo Makynen tear things down on the opening track; the trio of Brian Jones, ...

Timo Lassy and Teppo Mäkynen: Live Recordings 2019-2020

by Friedrich Kunzmann
March 9, 2021

The Finnish pairing of Timo Lassy and Teppo Mäkynen belongs to the kind of collaborations where one really doesn't know what to expect next, but that whatever it is, it's bound to be quite extraordinary. Both respected leaders in their own right and busy musicians in contexts that reach far beyond the boundaries of jazz, the ...

Nicola Conte & Gianluca Petrella: People Need People

by Chris May
February 12, 2021

For over twenty years, the Italian producer, composer and guitarist Nicola Conte has pursued a resolutely independent path in jazz and jazz-related music. The Schema label, with whom he has almost exclusively partnered since his breakthrough album, 2000's acid-jazz masterpiece Jet Sounds, is based in the fashion-centric northern city of Milan. But Conte nearly always records ...

Teppo Mäkynen

Tower Jazz Composers Orch. & Daniel Bernardes

by Maurice Hogue
January 8, 2020

Improvisation is the core of clarinetist Ben Goldberg's Good Day For Cloud Fishing, and not just the music. His fascination with poet Dean Young's work led to the creation of this album where the trio of Goldberg, Nels Cline and Ron Miles improvised upon a musical sketch that Goldberg wrote based upon one of Young's poems. ...

Timo Lassy and Teppo Mäkynen: Timo Lassy and Teppo Mäkynen

by Anthony Shaw
November 24, 2019

Timo Lassy and Teppo Mäkynen have been at the heart of the Helsinki jazz scene for over two decades, seeing international success with the Five Corners Quintet as well as leading several accomplished cutting-edge bands. This is something very different, an eponymously titled album where two established figures throw caution to the wind and cut loose ...

Tomeka Reid Quartet, Piero Bittolo Bon & Ratchet Orchestra

by Maurice Hogue
October 30, 2019

I guess this episode could be termed a “friendly" one, as it just so happens a number of my musical friends have new releases out for sampling, so I dove right in. Toronto drummer Nick Fraser has an excellent album out with Tony Malaby and Kris Davis and they open the show. Violist Ig Henneman from ...

Rich Halley, Satoko Fuji, Ramon Lopez & More

by Maurice Hogue
August 8, 2019

Those artists who have been able to sustain long careers and consistently move the music forward must be celebrated, and this episode recognizes two such examples who have new recordings out at the moment: Be Known: Ancient/Future/Music from Chicago's Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, the group put together in 1976 by percussionist Kahil El'Zabar, and Terra Incognita from ...