Jazz Finland Live

Trumpet player Jukka Eskola (b. 1978) has delighted the Finnish jazz scene with his music for over twenty years. Eskola has played dozens of times with UMO’s trumpet section, and last summer he stood up as the orchestra’s soloist for the first time at a few festival gigs.

In this series of three concerts in May, UMO presents compositions from Eskola’s exhaustive list of recordings in soul and bossa nova, including a couple of pieces from his album that comes out in spring 2019. The conductor of the concert, Mikko Hassinen, has made fresh big band arrangements of these compositions.

In addition to his own bands Jukka Eskola Soul Trio, Jukka Eskola Quintet and Jukka Eskola Orquestra Bossa, the busy trumpeter has played in the groups Five Corners Quintet andRicky-Tick Big Band. Eskola has six solo albums, about 200 album tracks, Pori Jazz Artist of the Year award, several Emma nominations, theatre productions and many teaching posts under his belt. Eskola also plays in orchestras of various television programs.

Formed in 2018, Chico Matada Group was born in the circles of Helsinki’s live music scene. Drawn from a need to write and perform original music that is anchored in modern jazz idiom, the bands music is distinguished by evocative melodies, epical harmonies, deft arrangements, all mixed up with African culture.

The live show displays their unique approach to perform music with intricate structures and skilfull use of improvisation coupled with vocal ornamentation. Yet, it all sounds integrated and captivating to every music fan.

Chico Matada - Drums
Sam Jaakkola - Double bass
Nikita Rafaelov - Piano
Héctor Lepe - Guitar

www.chicomatada.com

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