Jazz Finland Live

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28th APRIL JAZZ FESTIVAL ESPOO
Tickets: www.lippu.fi
Festival office: Kulttuuriaukio 2, 02100 Espoo

APRIL JAZZ ARENA 23/4
Lenni-Kalle Taipale & Jukka Perko at 19, Robin McKelle & The Flytones at 21
Doors open at 18. (K18)
Tickets incl. delivery cost from 33,50€

TAPIOLA HALL 23/4
Timo Lassy Band at 19.00, Marius Neset Birds at 20.45
Tickets incl. delivery cost from 25,50€

LOUHI HALL 23/4
Kari Ikonen Trio at 20.00
Tickets incl. delivery cost from 17,50€

WEEGEE 23/4
Leffa goes Live!
Menetetty Peli (1956) & K-18 from 20.00 (K18)
Tickets from the festival office or at the door 15€. With a Leffa goes
Live! -ticket free entrance to the AJazz Club.

AJazz Clubs at WeeGee
WeJazz DJs from 23.00
Tickets only at the door 6 €. (K18)
Wed–Thu before 23.00 15€, Saturday before 22.00 free entrance

CULTURAL CENTRE
From Wed to Sat: Live Jazz at Cafe Mezzo from 18:00 (Sat from 17.00)
Free entrance

AFTERPARTY
From Wed to Sa from 21.00 (K18)
Original Sokos Hotel Tapiola Garden
Free entrance

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Birger's Ragtime Band is formed by a group of experienced musicians who have played in various jazz groups in both Finland and abroad since the 1970s. Their genre, the melodic New Orleans jazz of the early 20th century, is not very widely represented in Finland. This group's happy tunes have previously made the audience move their feet, and it is a guarantee that you will leave the venue smiling.

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A set of saxophonist Ville Vannemaa’s compositions. These compositions based upon strong atmospheres and heavy grooves search for ways to orchestrate a piano-less group, using the guitar as a rhythmic and melodic instrument to utilize the personalities of the expressive performers. The concert is a part of Ville Vannemaa’s Level A examination at Sibelius Academy.

Tickets: 17,50/12,50/6,50 € (Lippupalvelu and online store), 15/10/5 € (from the door)

Further information:

Producer
Ulla Havulehto
050 384 3451
ulla.havulehto@siba.fi

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Reija Lang – vocals
Jarno Kukkonen – guitar
Mikko-Ville Luolajan-Mikkola – violin, bass

Free of charge.

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Out of the Coo and into the Jungle - UMO Plays Ellington & Evans

With conductor Kari Heinilä at the helm, UMO Jazz Orchestra sets out to explore the music of these two big band giants. The concert focuses on the classic compositions by Duke Ellington (1899-1974) and Gil Evans (1912-1988), perhaps two of the most essential jazz composers of all time.

Tickets 24,50 e.

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Dalindèo and Nieminen & Litmanen, two heavyweight talents of the Finnish jazz scene, tour together this spring! The first stop will be at Lutakko on Wednesday 23 April.

During its 10-year existence, the Emma-awarded Dalindèo have proven to have a knack of merging different musical genres in a unique way. Their latest album, “Kallio”, took the group from the Brazilian dance floors of their early career to surf guitars and the bohemian side of the Finnish capital, and it is surely from here where the Balkan melodies and the influence of Finnish popular music of the1950s come from. Dalindèo is made of a strongly melodic style and cinematic feels and they are determined to make every member in the audience move.

The duo Nieminen & Litmanen has established itself as an inimitable instrumental dance band. This group has trusted its signature Hammond sound for almost ten years - successfully. From the beginning, Nieminen & Litmanen have made music that is both true to their taste and to the musical traditions their pieces draw from. And these traditions range from blues, rock, reggae, afro and soul to funk, popular music, rockabilly, punk, jazz and bossa nova.

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The New York-based Finnish quitarist, Olli Hirvonen, gives the last concert on the tour celebrating the release of his debut album at Zum Beispiel, in Porvoo.

Hirvonen's compositions incorporate a wide range of influence from modern and mainstream jazz with a hint of avant-garde and flavours of rock music. The quartet is international: on the tenor sax we have Frederick Menzies from Denmark, on the bass Jeff Koch from the U.S., and on the drums Philippe Lemm from the Netherlands.

The group has played at several jazz clubs in New York, at the Nordic Cool 2013 Festival in Washington D.C, at the UCLA European Jazz Festival in Los Angeles and at various venues in Boston and New York.

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