Jazz Finland Live

The hottest name in jazz right now Vijay Iyer is bringing his trio to Helsinki for We Jazz. We’re bound to hear material from the recent awesome album Break Stuff. The trio’s music is minimalistic and hypnotic all at once.

Teppo Mäkynen’s Teddy’s West Coasters don’t play gigs very often. Their performance at We Jazz will be their second one since debut album Volume 1 was released. West Coasters features some of Finland’s top jazz artists and it’s wonderful to experience how they interpret Mäkynen’s music together on stage.

M. A. Numminen is one of Finland’s most respected artists. At the We Jazz opening concert we will once again get to experience Numminen’s traditional opening perfomance, the contents of which can be anything at all.

Vijay Iyer Trio
Vijay Iyer, p
Stephan Crump, b
Tyshawn Sorey, dr

Teddy's West Coasters
Teppo Mäkynen, dr
Antti Lötjönen, b
Jukka Perko, a-sax & cl
Ville Vannemaa, b-sax
Jukka Eskola, tp & fl-h
Mikko Karjalainen, tp & fl-h
Miika Jämsä, tu
Kasperi Sarikoski, tb & cowbell

M. A. Numminen
recitation, maybe something else