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Wadada Leo Smith and Tumo: Occupy the World
by Hrayr Attarian
Trumpeter, composer and multi-instrumentalist Wadada Leo Smith's career has been one of relentless exploration and bold innovation. His timeless works have always eschewed narrow categorization and shattered musical boundaries. Now, in the eight decade of his life his creative vision has matured without losing any of its youthful energy. On the heels of his epic Pulitzer ...
Vossa Jazz 2013
by John Kelman
Vossa JazzOslo, NorwayMarch 22-24, 2013Every festival hopes to have a signature, that certain something that differentiates it from all the rest and makes it a desired destination, but few have as many things going for it as the annual Vossa Jazz Festival, now in its 40th year. It certainly may seem ...
Verneri Pohjola & Black Motor: Rubidium
by Eyal Hareuveni
Black Motor is Finland's leading trio of free jazz that began to gain a wider recognition outside Finland in recent years. Since its foundation around 2005, the central Finland, Tampere-based proletariat trio expanded its muscular, uncompromising post-Albert Ayler and Peter Brötzmann approach as it began to collaborate with fellow, innovative Finnish improvisers as saxophonist Juhani Aaltonen, ...
Verneri Pohjola & Black Motor: Rubidium
by Dan McClenaghan
Just going by the name, for those unfamiliar with the thriving Scandinavian jazz scene, a group calling itself Black Motor might be mistaken for a heavy metal rock band--a smash-and-crash set of drums, a blasting three-chord guitar and a wall-shaking bass wrapped around bellowed lyrics. But the real Black Motor, a drums/bass/saxophone outfit--joined on Rubidium by ...
Triologia
Label: TUM Records
Released: 2012
Track listing: 01. Triologia; 02. Dance of the Arasias; 03. Super Balls; 04. Bassologia;
05. No. 69B; 06. Birds; 07. White Adria; 08. Four Paraphrases for Charles;
09. Biologia; 10. Drumologia; 11. Olavi Puré; 12. Old Papa’s Blues; 13. Hi
Bob!; 14. Taysikuu
Olavi Trio & Friends: Triologia
by AAJ Italy Staff
Tre musicisti finlandesi hanno scoperto di avere il secondo nome in comune (Olavi) e hanno quindi deciso di chiamare il loro gruppo 'Olavi Trio.' Per questo Triologia hanno scelto di coinvolgere in alcuni brani altri tre musicisti, il trombettista Verneri Pohjola, il saxofonista Juhani Aaltonen e il chitarrista Kalle Kalima, per aggiungere nuovi sapori e nuovi ...
Verneri Pohjola: Aurora
by Bruce Lindsay
Finnish trumpeter/composer Verneri Pohjola comes from a well-established family of jazz musicians: both his father, famed bassist Pekka Pohjola, and his younger brother, trombonist Ilmari, join him here. Pohjola was voted Musician Of The Year by Finnish jazz critics in 2004, but Aurora is his debut as leader. This is a work of immense beauty which ...
