Jazz Finland Live

The Finnish YNJC representative, vocalist Kadi Vija's quartet goes on tour with the runner-up in the Finnish YNJC 2013 competition, experimental Virta trio. The tour visits six major cities in Finland in January 8 - 22. Both bands are currently working on a new album: Kadi Quartet their debut plate and Virta their second.

Kadi Quartet played in YNJC 2013 showcase in Trondheim on the 12th of September. among five young and talented Nordic bands. For the first time the event took place within Europe Jazz Network's General Assembly. EJN is the network for European jazz professionals, and therefor the bands got an audience of festival promoters, concert organizers, jazz media and other key figures in the industry. Henning Bolte from AllAboutJazz highlighted band leader Vija in Trondheim: "Kadi Vija, a selfconscious singer with a firm throat, led her band through an energetic and powerful set. She dared to pause, drop silences and increased tension and dynamics."

Vija herself modestly describes her role in the quartet as merely instrumental, but anyone who has heard her sing 'Invisible Girl', knows she won't blend in the background. Kadi Quartet release their debut album in 2014.

Virta is a Finnish instrumental trio which combines textures of Scandinavian jazz and post-rock with avantgarde aesthetics. On their sophomore long player – coming out in 2014 – these three young Finns march their own unconventional way of expression.

Virta’s critically acclaimed debut album ’Tales From The Deep Waters’ (Tourist Information, 2012) is widely regarded as one of the most significant experimental recordings coming out from Finnish music scene in recent years and it has drawn comparisons to the names like Miles Davis, Jaga Jazzist and Nils Petter Molvaer. During a short period of existence, Virta has gained reputation as a fierce live ensemble, which has taken them to the stages of Pori Jazz in Finland and Match&Fuse Festival in Norway.

Tour dates, venues and other info available in http://jazzfinland.fi/band/kadi-quartet 

Kadi Quartet
www.kadiquartet.com 
https://soundcloud.com/kadi-quartet 

Virta
www.virtavirta.com 
https://soundcloud.com/virtaband/ 

The tour is supported by the Finnish Jazz Federation and the Finnish Music Foundation MES.

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The concert features a diverse selection of Miller’s music. Vocals are supplied by the band’s very own Andrews Girls ensemble, and the conductor, of course, is none other than the trombonist Antti Rissanen.

Tickets €18

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Gretchen Parlato from the Manhattan School of Music teaches Sibelius Academy students of jazz singing via video conference techonology.

The public has free entrance.

In the ten years since her arrival in New York City, Gretchen Parlato has emerged as one of the most inventive and mesmerizing vocalists of her generation. In an artful communion of space, texture and a genre-bending repertoire, she has introduced a musical sea-change, making the power of subtlety front and center in jazz.

Further information:

Producer
Joni Käenmäki
040 710 4384
joni.kaenmaki@siba.fi

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Fredator and his group have mastered the genre of danceable Latin jazz. After their debut album Bad Jazz in 2010, the orchestra shed its skin, gained some new members, and took a whole new direction before publishing their second album Rebirth of the Bad (Suomen Musiikki 2012).

Inside the lizard costume is drummer-pianist Jussi Fredriksson, who is active in numerous orchestras, has led the Korpo Sea Jazz festival, is the primus motor of the Flame Jazz club series in Turku and runs his own record label Fredriksson Music. He is also part of the Helsinki Jazz Underground Collective, which promotes jazz in Helsinki. 

This tour exceptionally features a true living legend, Severi Pyysalo on the vibraphone instead of the band's original vibesman Panu Savolainen.  

Fredator
Fredator - drums, comp.
Joakim Berghäll – saxophones
Jorma Kalevi Louhivuori – trumpet
Severi Pyysalo – vibraphone
Eero Tikkanen – bass
www.fredator.fi

Tour dates
22.1. Tampere, Telakka w/ Rakka, at 10.30pm (Rakka band at 21.00)
23.1. Jyväskylä, Poppari, at 9pm
24.1. Oulu, Tuba, at 7pm
25.1. Tornio, Musiikkitalo, at 6pm

29.1. Helsinki, JazzHUG, VinVin, at
30.1. Kuopio, Intro, at 8pm
31.1. Joensuu, Teatteriravintola, at 9pm
1.2. Flame Jazz Cruise

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