Jazz Finland Live

Sid Hille's new jazz quintet Infinita released it's debut CD 'Time Continuum' in summer 2013. The CD was mixed in Oslo by the legendary ECM-sound engineer Jan Erik Kongshaug. Stylistically the band continues where Hille's previous band, the renowned Platypus Ensemble left off, presenting european chamber jazz, featuring intensity and communication embedded in strong compositions by the leader.

Massimo Carboni, tenor sax
Tero Saarti, trumpet
Sid Hille, piano
Paolo Spanu, bass
Gianni Filindeu, drums

Duration 1 h 30 min, no interval
Tickets starting from 15/10 €, Lippupiste.
Cloakroom fee 2 €

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Next spring, the 15-year old Club For Five vocal ensemble and 40-year old UMO will be touring some of the largest concert venues in Finland. The collaboration gives a tour of tango with a difference: evergreens by Unto Mononen and Toivo Kärki in new, innovative and entertaining versions. A New Take On Tango is a tribute to two legendary Finnish songwriters and will present a new perspective on their music as a highly unconventional tango ensemble – a big band with a five-part vocal ensemble – combine Finnish tangos with anything from bebop to 1960’s Motown soul. The arrangements for 16-piece big band and vocal ensemble were written by Mikko Hassinen, Marzi Nyman and Pessi Levanto, among others. UMO’s 40th and Club For Five’s 15th anniversary year coincides also with the 100th anniversary of the birth of late Toivo Kärki.

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Panu Savolainen Toivo pay homage to the legendary Finnish composer Toivo Kärki! In honour of Kärki, the group releases an album, Music by Toivo Kärki, on 4 March, and give live performances around Finland. The recording - and the concert programme - consists of Kärki's beloved evergreens and a few previously unreleased songs. The recording features two vocalists, Yona and Ninni Poijärvi, of whom the former joins the group also at Lavaklubi.

Panu Savolainen, vibraphone
Teemu Viinikainen, guitar
Jori Huhtala, bass

+ Yona, vocals

Tickets 15/10 € at the Finnish National Theatre Box Office and at the door.

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Verneri Pohjola – trumpet
Aki Rissanen – piano
Antti Lötjönen – bass
Teppo Mäkynen – drums

Lyrically captivating, melodic and unique. These terms, among others, have been applied to trumpeter Verneri Pohjola’s music. The sound of “the Miles Davis of the North” has something extraordinarily human to it, evading the pitfall of technical bravado which some of his colleagues sometimes are swallowed by. The son of the legendary composer of jazz fusion, Pekka Pohjola, Verneri Pohjola has boldly treaded his own path, which has gained him a place among the most acclaimed European jazz musicians.

The audience of Flame Jazz will be the first in Finland to experience Pohjola’s latest recording, Bullhorn, live. Both on the recording and at the concert, the trumpeter is backed by his trusted quartet, consisting of pianist Aki Rissanen, bassist Antti Lötjönen and drummer Teppo Mäkynen.

“Intimate improvisation that I hold dear, raw energy and thorough writing – it has all the elements that I want my music to have,” Pohjola describes his new album.
Bullhorn is to be released by the renowned English label Edition Records, having released two recordings on the German label ACT. Pohjola and his quartet have also performed on the English soil recently – and not on any occasion – but at the London Jazz Festival and Forge Arts Centre.

Initially, Pohjola made his breakthrough ten years ago when the group Ilmiliekki Quartet released their debut, the Emma-nominated and Teosto-awarded March of the Alpha Males. This led to the group being chosen as the Finland Festivals Artist of the Year. Pohjola himself was selected as the Pori Jazz Artist of the Year and as the Trumpeter of the Year by the jazz magazine Jazzrytmit. The rest is Finnish jazz history!

'Affecting and atmospheric…memorable original themes’ – The Guardian, UK *****
’Verneri Pohjola has got what it takes to become an international jazz star’ – All About Jazz

Tickets 15/10 €.

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