Jazz Finland Live

Japanese pianist Yoko Miura and percussionist Janne Tuomi embark on an adventure between sound and silence, where minimalist Japanese expression meets the timbres of classical Western percussion instruments in an improvisational, deliberately spontaneous world.

Tickets 6 €

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Alexi Tuomarila Trio saw daylight in 2004 and their debut album Constellation was released on Norwegian Jazzaway Records the following year. The trio was touring intensely back then in Norway, Finland and the Benelux countries. Tuomarila's, among other trio members, career took a flight then and the cosmopolite band leader claimed reputation and awards in piano competitions in Monaco, Granada, Avignon and Brussels. The Observer magazine picked Tuomarila among six jazz musicians to keep an ear on in the future.

The release of their second album took eight years, due to musicians being extremely occupied with their other projects. Tuomarila and Louhivuori had their hands full in Tomasz Stanko's band and Eilertsen in Tord Gustavsen's trio. Also the musicians own projects like Louhivuori's acclaimed Oddarrang and Mats Eilertsen Quartet took time from the trio work. Still the artists met on stage from time to time in pairs or all together, and in 2012 it was time for a new rise of the "future stars". Alexi Tuomarila made a three-album contract with the British Edition Records, who also represent Oddarrang among other familiar names to us Finns. The first record of the triple-deal  was Seven Hills that came out in 2013. On Seven Hills the trio sounds mre full and balanced than ever, and the album got positive reviews all over the press. 

Now the trio returns to Finland to play new material in ten concerts. This is the best chance to sneak-peak some of the secret tracks that will probably find their way to their next album. 

Alexi Tuomarila Trio

Alexi Tuomarila - piano
Olavi Louhivuori - drums
Mats Eilertsen – bass

Finnish Jazz Federation Tour 

26.11. Tallinna, Philly Joe’s, klo 21.30, liput 7/5€
27.11. Helsinki, G Livelab, klo 19.00, liput 18€
29.11. Oulainen, Kulmajazz, Haapaveden ammattiopisto, klo 19.00, liput 15€
30.11. Raahe, Raahesali, klo 19.00, liput 20/15/10€
1.12. Oulu, Teatteriravintola Vänmanni, klo 20.00, liput 15/10€
2.12. Turku, Sigyn Club, Konservatorio, klo 19.00, liput 15/10€
3.12. Salo, Taidemuseo Veturitalli,  klo 18.00, liput 12/5€
7.12. Jyväskylä, BoomBox klo 19.00, liput 12/8€
8.12. Kuopio, King’s Crown, klo 20.00, liput 15/10€
9.12. Joensuu, Konservatorio, klo 19.00, liput 15/10/6€

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Rauni Pekkala, a schlager-jazz star from the 60s, dazzles again! Markanjazz, in turn, perform music from the world of classic cinema, including the flagship of Finnish cinema, Aki Kaurismäki. 

Doors and the theatre cafe open at 17:00. 

Tickets 5 €

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UMO’s list of international guests will grow this November by one of the hottest names of the jazz world: the Lebanon-born, Paris-based trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf. Drawing from his cultural background, this virtuoso musician translates the melancholy mindscape of his home region into a unique, original music, seasoning it with Arabic flavours, jazz, hip hop, film music and even rock.  Dubbed the new voice of the jazz trumpet, Maalouf is known for his nuanced, expressive playing and improvisation.

Maalouf initially began playing and composing when only a little boy. He has released eight albums to date; the two latest of which, Red & Black Light and Kalthoum, came out in 2015. In addition to his career as a jazz musician, Maalouf has composed for symphony orchestras, choirs and cinema, one of his best-known scores being for the 2015 Yves Saint Laurent biopic. His CV includes collaborations with the likes of Sting, Elvis Costello, Oxmo Puccino and Amadou & Mariam, and he has hoarded various prizes not only for his work in the field of jazz but classical music also.

In this collab concert with UMO, we will be in for Maalouf’s originals in big band arrangements by the composer and arranger guru, pianist Jim McNeely, originally written for the Frankfurt-based hr-Bigband. We will also be hearing a number of entirely new arrangements from Maalouf’s most recent albums.

Conductor: Mikko Hassinen

Tickets available at 34 € / 30 € / 17 € on Ticketmaster

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The Jyväskylä-based composer-guitarist celebrates his debut by hitting the road in late November. The tour will also see him present his newly-assembed, stellar group. 

Independent Finnish record label Eclipse Music issues guitarist-composer Tuomas Paukku's debut album on vinyl and digitally on 25 of November. The band performing Paukku's music on the record is a Finnish-Swedish group Tuomas Paukku Description, while the album-lauch tour, taking place on 24 November - 4 December, will see Paukku hit the road with his new Finnish group, Tuomas Paukku Scription. Having pianist Artturi Rönkä, bassist Janne Tuovinen and drummer Tomi Saikkonen join the leader-guitarist, Tuomas Paukku Scription takes up where the Swedes left off. The musicians stand in the frontline of a young and vital generation in Finnish jazz, interpreting Paukku's distinctive music with intense passion.

The roots of Paukku's music can be found in the modern European jazz impressionism, but not without seeking new landscapes and dimensions by bending the borders of different musical genres without hesitation. "I wanted a new and Finnish group. Here it is", the leader summarises. On the tour, new compositions will be heard alongside with the material of the album.

Tuomas Paukku, guitar
Artturi Rönkä, piano and rhodes
Janne Tuovinen (Vesa Ojaniemi on 3 and 4 Dec), double bass
Tomi Saikkonen, drums

Tickets 10 €

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This time Finnish pianist Karri Luhtala brings to town the group Her Blame. The quartet plays original compositions influenced by the musical traditions of the Meditarranean. 

Renato Colucci - alto sax
Karri Luhtala - piano
Hernan Meza - bass
Angelo Di Veroli - drums

Tickets 20 € at the door, pre-tickets available at 15 € via  olli@vihreatalo.fi  

https://youtu.be/2pgDXUXBhBw 

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Saariselkä Fell Chapel at 11.00 Kalle Ahlbäck Swingin’ Five

Arto Nybom, violin & vocals
Johannes Niskanen, accordion
Fred Ahlberg, guitar
Ilkka Hanski, bass
Kalle Ahlbäck, drums

Tickets 13 €

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