Jazz Finland Live
László Süle & Rob Dominis,Unkarin kulttuuri- ja tiedekeskus, helsinki23.4. At 18:00
The jazz concert series, hosted by Lázló Süle, continues at the Centre for Hungarian Culture and Science, Helsinki. This time Süle is joined by keyboard player Rob Dominis.
László Süle (b.1955) teaches the piano, history of music, didactics and composition at the Metropolia University of Applied Sciences. Initially a student of composition, he fell in love with jazz improvisation and ended up graduating from the jazz department of Béla Bartók Conservatory. Süle moved to Finland in 1989 to pursue a career as a music teacher. He has released several albums both - original compositions and other composers' works - and performed with jazz bands and chamber orchestras alike.
Rob Dominis comes from the United States, and having studied the jazz piano at the University of Miami he moved to Finland in 1989. He has taught at the Pop & Jazz Conservatory of Helsinki since 1990 and as a private teacher, directed bands and run various music workshops. He also performs regularly both in Finland and abroad, and has recorded a number of albums with well-known Finnish bands and artists. Dominis is also a theatre musician and he has been involved in many music productions in Helsinki.
László Süle, piano
Rob Dominis, keys
Gigs on the same day in helsinki
Over the last forty years, many of the most respected jazz musicians in Finland have played with UMO. Jukkis Uotila, a drummer, pianist and teacher, is one of them.
The third concert in UMO’s anniversary concert series concentrates on Uotila’s own recent big band arrangements and compositions. Most of the material is from the The Music Of Jukkis Uotila album, which he recorded with the Stockholm Jazz Orchestra in 2013.
– I’ve composed a lot of music, but I hadn’t written anything for a large orchestra in a couple of decades. The Music Of Jukkis Uotila is the first record I’ve made that consists solely of my own big band pieces, Uotila explains.
Uotila started playing in big bands at the age of 14, when he was a founding member of the Oulunkylä Pop & Jazz Conservatory’s orchestra. Since then he has played with big bands at home and abroad, from UMO and the Toshiko Akiyoshi/Lew Taback big band to several radio orchestras in Central Europe.
Uotila’s versatile background and his long career in music are both apparent in his compositions. He writes music that draws heavily from his personal esthetics, independent of musical trends and fashion. Uotila’s music is a kind of antithesis to the broad, painterly strokes used by most European big bands at the moment.
– The songs and arrangements are based on the traditions of jazz, but the sound is all mine: strong melodies underscored by polymorphous harmonies backed by groovy rhythms.
