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Tuomo Uusitalo

Tuomo Uusitalo is an award-winning pianist, composer, arranger and educator. Having released two albums as a leader, and appearing on numerous albums as a sideman, he has established himself in the New York jazz scene, and continues touring internationally both as a leader as well as sideman. Born in Tampere, Finland, Tuomo Uusitalo started to play piano at the age of 6.  As a teenager he played different types of music from classical to pop/rock, and soon became fascinated by Jazz and the thrilling possibilities of spontaneous improvisation.  While studying music in Graz, Austria (University of Music and Performing Arts, the oldest jazz institute in Europe), Tuomo already had the chance to work and perform with many jazz legends including Bob Brookmeyer, Billy Hart, Curtis Fuller, Jimmy Cobb and Jim Rotondi, as well as many other well known jazz artists such as Steve Waterman, Riccardo del Fra, Wayne Darling, Juan Garcia-Herreros, Howard Curtis, Stjepko Gut, Charlie Miklin and many others

Frozen In Time

By Nicholas Brust

Label: Fresh Sound Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Work Ahead; Hearts and Spades; Brooklyn Folk Song; Frozen in Time; Hymnal for Those in Need; Adversity; Something Like a Storm; Soliloquy in F Minor; A Shifting State.

Northbound

By Tuomo Uusitalo

Label: CAM Jazz
Released: 2017
Track listing: Counterparts; Awakening; Forgotten; Rumble; Song For Mr. Moorhead; Quietus; Gomez Palacio; Focus; Pablo's Insomnia; Burst; The Aisle.

Love Song

By Tuomo Uusitalo

Label: Fresh Sound Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: Pannonica; Long Ago And Far Away; I Keep Going Back To Joe’s; Untitled; Just In Time; Love Song; There’s A Small Hotel; A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square; Benji’s Grip; Lullaby.

Tuomo Uusitalo: Love Song

by Tyran Grillo
September 19, 2016

Pianist, composer, and educator Tuomo Uusitalo--born in Finland and, since 2012, a resident fixture of the New York City jazz scene--offers up something special in Love Song, his second album as leader. Special, not only because with it Uusitalo has rewritten his name into the ledger of modern jazz in flowing script, but also because he ...

Jimmy O'Connell Sixtet: Arrhythmia

by Dan Bilawsky
August 25, 2016

Trombonist Jimmy O'Connell has been slowly and steadily climbing the ladder of jazz success since leaving his Detroit home and arriving in New York in 2009. Over the course of his seven years in the Big Apple, O'Connell has had the opportunity to work with leading lights like trumpeter Randy Brecker and saxophonist Paquito D'Rivera, contribute ...

Trombonist Reggie Watkins's "Avid Admirer: The Jimmy Knepper Project" Set For July 15 Release

June 30, 2016

Trombonist Reggie Watkins had the opportunity to meet trombone master Jimmy Knepper just once, shortly before Knepper’s death in June 2003. Watkins was performing in his native Wheeling, WV with Maynard Ferguson’s Big Bop Nouveau Band, and Knepper, himself a Ferguson alumnus, was in the audience. The older musician complimented Watkins after the concert and shook ...

Daniel Cacija: Lifeline

by Bruce Lindsay
June 16, 2015

Vocalist Daniel Čačija is a snappy, if somewhat retro, dresser--the cover images on Lifeline show him sporting, variously, a dinner suit and a cravat. A quick glance at the track list reveals jazz standards such as “Detour Ahead," “Lush Life" and “Exactly Like You." The band is the classic piano trio, with added trumpet. It looks ...