Jazz Finland Live
jaZZanti-konsertti - Kuàra - Trygve Seim, Samuli Mikkonen ja Markku Ounaskari,ravintola Laulumiehet, helsinki28.10. At 19:00
Kuára
Trygve Seim: saxophones, Samuli Mikkonen: grand piano and Markku Ounaskari: drums
On their 2010 debut recording Kuára – Psalms and Folk songs (ECM
Records 2116), the Kuára trio explored the melodic universe of Fenno-
Ugrian folk music and old Russian religious hymns, featuring the
expressive, spontaneous playing of Norwegian trumpet player and
singer Per Jørgensen.
For the past year, the trio is working with another strong and
imaginative Norwegian musician – sax player Trygve Seim, equally
rootsy and intensive in musical expression, but with a distinctive
element of lyrical cool in his sound.
For the Finnish members of the trio, drummer Markku Ounaskari and
pianist Samuli Mikkonen, the new constellation is partly a return to the
open-form playing and spontaneous improvising that they initially
started with as a duo, but also a move into a space defined by
completely new forces of musical gravity.
In their 2014 concerts, the trio will play original compositions tailored
for the current lineup – with these fresh musical ingredients, the Kuára
trio is heading towards new horizons.
Gigs on the same day in helsinki
DIG.-festivaali: Mike Stern (USA)Black Box, Musiikkitalo, helsinki28.10. At 19:00
The twelfth DIG. Festival will fill up the Helsinki Music Centre between 28 and 30 October. The festival is organised by the Jazz Department of the University of the Arts Helsinki’s Sibelius Academy.
The star guest at the DIG. Festival is six-time Grammy nominee and jazz guitarist Mike Stern from the USA. One of the most eminent fusion guitarists of his generation, Stern will play with a group of the best Finnish jazz musicians.
Stern (b. 1953) built his reputation in Miles Davis’ comeback band in the early 1980s after having played in Blood, Sweat & Tears and collaborated with drummer Billy Cobham. Since 1985, Stern has led his own bands. At the same time, he has collaborated with several lineups, including the Brecker Brothers and the Yellowjackets, and, in the 1980s, even Professor Jukkis Uotila’s ensemble. Stern is a regular name on various music magazines' lists of great guitarists. He has published 15 albums, the latest, All Over the Place, in 2012.
Tickets incl. service fees: 37,50/27,50/17,50 € (Lippupalvelu and online store), 35/25/15 € (Music Centre box office).
Further information:
Ulla Havulehto
050 3843451
ulla.havulehto@uniarts.fi
