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Infinita: Time Continuum
by Anthony Shaw
The opening 30 seconds of “Wild," the appropriately named first track on this exploration of the Time Continuum, belies the melody and the meter of the music that follows. The album consists of 10 more pieces, mainly from the pen of pianist Sid Hille and more than ably assisted by this thoroughly seamless Italo-Finnish foursome.
Tampere Jazz Happening 2010: Day 2, November 5, 2010
by John Kelman
Day 1 | Day 2 | Days 3-4 Tampere Jazz HappeningTampere, FinlandNovember 4-7, 2010 Day two of Tampere Jazz Happening kicked the festival into high gear, with a terrific line-up at both the festival's primary venues: Pakkahuone's Old Customs House Hall, which seats upwards of a thousand people and is used ...
Sauna Palaa!
Label: UMOCD
Released: 2006
Track listing: Otava; Kivi Palaa; Kalvean Immen Tarina; Stenvall; Kuu Ulvoo; Kivelle; Simeoni (73:51).
UMO Jazz Orchestra: Sauna Palaa!
by Jack Bowers
In Finland, world-class big band jazz is spelled UMO. The country's premier large ensemble, now ably conducted by Kirmo Lintinen, has been defining big band jazz with a Scandinavian accent for more than three decades. The group's latest album, Sauna Palaa!, encompasses seven original compositions by as many Finnish composers (including one by Lintinen) inspired by ...
UMO Plays Frank Zappa
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Released: 2004
Track listing: Peaches en Regalia; The Idiot Bastard Son; Sofa; King Kong (16:36)
The UMO Jazz Orchestra: UMO Plays Frank Zappa
by Jack Bowers
With a playing time of 16:36 and no liner notes or list of personnel, this brief survey by Finland’s UMO Jazz Orchestra of the music of Frank Zappa is more a demo than a full-fledged album, but I can’t grasp who is being promoted. According to its cover, the album “Features Marzi Nyman,” but as I’m ...
