Jazz Finland Live

Vibraphonist Panu Savolainen’s jazz trio Herd celebrates its ten-year journey with an extensive tour in Finland. Herd released the critically acclaimed album X last February and is now heading on tour from 8 October until 31 October. Fourteen cities covering tour is produced together with Jazz Finland.

Herd was founded in 2009 between Savolainen, bassist Mikko Pellinen and drummer Tuomas Timonen. Trio is especially known of numerous collaboration projects, most famous being the Jazzbasilli with vocalist Aili Ikonen. Their debut album Live!! was released 2011 and the same year they won the distinguished European Jazz Competition at the North Sea Jazz festival in the Netherlands. They have hosted their own HERD club nights at National Theatre and toured in Australia in 2015 and in Ethiopia between 2016 and 2017.

With the original compositions of the band members, Herd returns to its roots to multidimensional, melancholy and beautiful trio play with its new X album. The album recorded in July 2018 boldly exploits the possibilities of studio technology, although on live concerts the band still relies on the acoustic swing.

Panu Savolainen, vibraphone 
Mikko Pellinen, ukulele bass 
Tuomas Timonen, drums

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20:00 Fjäreld + Lars Jansson
21:30 Orakel (Per "Texas Johansson, Torbjörn Zetterberg, Konrad Agnas)
23:00 Oddjob (SWE)
00.00 Jam Session (Jam Hosts Aleksi Heinola & Svempa Lundeqvist)

32,50/27,50€

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Hailed in the Canadian press as "one of his country's true renaissance men when it comes to music" (The Ottawa Citizen), composer and pianist, David Braid is a nine-time nominee, and three-time winner of Canada's highest music honour (Juno Award). Recognized for his solo jazz piano recording, "Verge", large-ensemble recording, "The David Braid Sextet Live", and small-ensemble recording, "The North," his foray into classical composition earned his first Sacred Work "Corona Divinae Misericordiae" a nomination for Classical Album of the Year. David Braid concertizes his original music and improvisations in the UK, Scandinavia, Europe, Russia, Central Asia, China, Australia, and Canada. Described as "brilliant" (Montreal Gazette), "enchanting" (The Age, Australia), "une force poétique" (Le Soleil) and "hauntingly beautiful" (The Globe & Mail), Braid's music combines the discipline of European classical music with the spontaneity of jazz. David Braid is a Steinway Artist, Composer-in-Residence for Sinfonia UK Collective, Artist-in-Residence at the University of Toronto, Adjunct Professor at the Danish National Conservatory of Music, and faculty member at the International Chamber Music Festival Casalmaggiore, Italy He is a recipient of the Ontario Foundation for the Arts' prestigious prize: "Paul de Hueck and Norman Walford Career Achievement Award for Keyboard Artistry." His arrangements and compositions were an integral part of the Chet Baker-inspired film, "Born to Be Blue" and his jazz score received praise for its "contemporary patina without sacrificing period authenticity" (The Times, UK). He also won "Best Original Score" and "Best Original Song" at the 2017 Screen Awards. "Braid's tone, touch, chord voicings and imagination make him one of the most interesting new pianists I've encountered in a long time." – Doug Ramsey, recipient of Jazz Journalists Association's Lifetime Achievement Award (USA)

25/20€

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