UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra
Band
Photo: Jukka Rapo
Profile
| Formed | 1975 |
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| Booking | Henriika Steidel-Luoto, toiminnanjohtaja vs. |
biography
UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra is the only professional orchestra in Finland specialised in jazz and new rhythm-oriented music. The big band of 16 musicians plays about 100 concerts every year in Finland and abroad. The orchestra plays a diverse range of modern music that is on the pulse of the times. The programme consists from jazz to soul and classical music, mixing old and new in surprising way, from children to senior citizens.
Musicians in UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra are some of the best jazz musicians in Finland. There are over 100 musicians, composers, directors and artists working with the orchestra every year. The band also acts as a hands-on educational establishment for Finnish musicians in the fields of jazz and popular music.
Upcoming gigs
- 27.11.Ernest Lawson Show – Grande Finale with UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra
Lappia Musiikkitalo, Tornio
UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra - 28.11.
- 30.11.Ernest Lawson Show – Grande Finale with UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra
Kaukametsä, Kajaani
UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra - 3.12.Lounaskonsertti: UMO Helsinki Ensemble – Joy Cannon
Savoy-teatteri, Helsinki
UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra
Discography
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Last Dance – New Music for Jazz Orchestra by Ed Partyka | 2022 | Neuklang |
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Music of Haarla, Heinilä, Kasurinen & Rönkä | 2020 | Eclipse Music |
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Beauty and the Beast | 2010 | UMO Productions |
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UMO on UMO | 2009 | UMO Productions |
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Sauna palaa! | 2005 | UMO Productions |
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Counting on the Count | 2004 | UMO Productions |
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UMO Jazz Orchestra celebrates Ellington | 1999 | UMO Productions |
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Day Dreamin': Music of Strayhorn | 1998 | Finlands Svenska Radio |
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UMO Jazz Orchestra | 1997 | Naxos Jazz |
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The First Seven | 1992 | Beta |
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Searching My Soul | 2023 | UMO Productions |
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Agatha 2 | 2022 | Ricky-Tick Records |
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Ritual Dances | 2022 | Sunnyside Records |
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Terra Exotica | 2021 | Ronet Records |
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Supermusic! | 2012 | EMI Blue Note |
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Primal Mind — UMO Plays the Music of Raoul Björkenheim, Live in Helsinki 1991 | 2010 | UMO Productions |
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The Sky Is Ruby | 2007 | TUM Records |
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Jatkumo | 2003 | Lake End Records |
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One More Time | 2000 | A-Records |
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Green & Yellow: UMO Jazz Orchestra Plays the Music of Bennie Wallace | 1994 | Pro Records |