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The Five Corners Quintet: Trading Eights

By Ludovico Granvassu
August 31, 2025
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The Five Corners Quintet was a Finnish combo that doubled as both launchpad and meeting point—bringing together up-and-coming players and established figures alike, with veteran Eero Koivistoinen as well as younger musicians including Timo Lassy (saxophones), Jukka Eskola (trumpet and flugelhorn), Kim Rantala and Mikael Jakobsson (piano), Antti Lotjonen and Tapani Nevalainen (bass), and Teppo Mäkynen (drums and bandleading). Many of them today enrich the We Jazz Records roster.

Their debut album—aptly titled Chasin' The Jazz Gone By (2005, reissued by Ricky-Tick Records for its twentieth anniversary)—revisited the golden age of hard bop through an early-aughts dancefloor sensibility.

International tours and a Columbia Records deal helped propel the success of this release, which also featured a guest turn from the legendary Mark Murphy. On "Trading Eights," though, the lean and tightly focused Quintet has all it needs to lock into a laid-back sizzle.

Contact Ludovico Granvassu on All About Jazz.
I'm the Editor-in-Chief of All About Jazz Italia, host of Mondo Jazz on Radio Free Brooklyn and was once visited by Frank Zappa's ghost.... he was funny too.

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