Jazz Finland Live

Screaming Jay & The Bones bring their energetic charisma to April Jazz Club stage, with 1950s rhythm & blues and jazz tunes, crazy scat solos and tight rhythms. Operating together since 2013, Screaming Jay & The Bones has captivated audiences with their energy both in festivals and in club stages. The band consists of Finnish jazz and rhythm & blues frontline musicians, known from Ricky Tick Big Band, Dalindeo, Whistle Bait and Jimi Tenor.

Screaming Jay & The Bones:
Jay Kortehisto – vocals, trombone
Petri `Pope` Puolitaival – saxophone
Valtteri Pöyhönen – guitar
Lasse Sirkko – bass
Thomas Rönnholm – drums

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The concert is opened at 6PM by Ebeli Show, presenting the students of Ebeli, the pop/ jazz department of the Espoo Music Institute.

Ebeli Show 6 PM
Screaming Jay & The Bones 7 PM
Original Sokos Hotel Tapiola Garden, Tapionaukio 3, Espoo
Tickets at the door 13€ / 10€ (students), payment with card | Tickets in advance are available at Lippu.fi
No age limit

Dinner is available at the show by booking a table in advance from the Tapiola Garden restaurant Grill It!. Booking a table at the club requires both dining and buying a ticket in advance.

Open event

Papa Albert Jazz Club: 
Kaisa Mäensivu, bass
Heikki Sandrén, drums
Lassi Kouvo, piano

Jazz jam session after the gig!

Free admission.

Open event

Inna Vysotska – vocals & The Untouchables -quintet (German): Stepan Shadikyan – trumpet, Dimitri Suslov – saxophone, Viktor Bürkland – piano, Marcus Lewyn – double bass, Oliver Struck – drums.

Charlotta Kerbs - vocals, Gianni Gagliardi (Barcelona) - tenor saxophone, Sergei Sokolov – piano, Nikolai Zatolochnyi (St. Petersburg) – double bass, Egor Kriukovskikh (St. Petersburg) - drums.

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Fri 31.1. at 7.00pm, Jyväskylä, Vakiopaine, tickets TBA
Promotor: Jazz Jkl ry, www.jazzjkl.fi 

Freshly out of Sibelius Academy with Doctor's Degree in hand, guitarist Sami Linna takes his quartet to the first Jazz Finland tour in January 28–February 7. The quartet – Linna accopanied by saxophonist Jussi Kannaste, Mikko Helevä in Hammond and American Dana Hall in drums – released their debut album on the stylish Timmion Records earlier this year.

"Take a pinch of classic Blue Note soul jazz, some stylings from the 1970's afrocentric movement, and streamed to perfection lines of a lead jazz guitar and you've put together the pieces of Sami Linna Quartet's sound. Their album on Timmion is one for the dark evenings, for the first rays of sunlight cracking through a summer mist, for the dance floors of the mind."
–Timmion Records–

Sami Linna Quartet on tour Jan 28–Feb 7, 2020

Sami Linna, guitar / Jussi Kannaste, saxophone / Mikko Helevä, Hammond B3 / Dana Hall, drums

Tue 28.1. Raahe, Raahen teatteri
Wed 29.1. Oulu, Voimala 1889
Thu 30.1. Kuopio, Maxim
Fri 31.1. Jyväskylä, Vakiopaine
Sat 1.2. Joensuu, Kerubi
Wed 5.2. Savonlinna, Kulttuurikellari
Thu 6.2. Salo, Bar Bizarre
Fri 7.2. Espoo, April Jazz Club

Jazz Finland is the leading organization for promoting jazz culture in Finland and Finnish jazz abroad. Jazz Finland produces two tours in Finland in the spring of 2020, and supports two additional tour productions.

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