Jazz Finland Live
Strandberg Project 25v & AGSW Quartet,Vuotalo, helsinki18.9. At 19:00
Tickets 20/17 euros
Strandberg Project has been exploring the worlds of progressive rock, jazz and funk for a quarter of a century and will be celebrating its new album at a club night at the Vuosaari House. In addition to the band itself, their new album and the concert at the Vuosaari House will include the AGSW Quartet as well, an ensemble founded in 2018 by Jan-Olof Strandberg. The quartet includes Finnish jazz and progressive rock legends.
STRANDBERG PROJECT
Jukka Gustavson, vocals & keyboard / Sami Virtanen, guitar / Jan-Olof Strandberg, bass / Jartsa Karvonen, drums / Felix Zenger, beatbox
AGSW QUARTET
Juhani Aaltonen, flute & saxophone / Jukka Gustavson, keyboard / Jan-Olof Strandberg, bass / Hasse Walli, drums
Gigs on the same day in helsinki
Pekka Toivonen Piano Week 2020Helsingin Vanha kirkko, helsinki18.9. At 19:00
Pekka Toivonen Piano Week (14.–18.9.2020) is an annual multimodal piano festival held in churches around Helsinki.
Pekka Toivonen, piano; Miina Järvi, violin; Satu-Maija Aalto, violin and alto; Yonatan Quamado, violin and alto; Tatu Ahola, cello, Mikko Supponen, guitar
UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra with Ed Partyka: The Summer Of Our DiscontentSavoy-teatteri, helsinki18.9. At 19:00
The UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra will premiere new music from its Artistic Director and Chief Conductor, Ed Partyka. The compositions were created during the exceptional circumstances of spring 2020 and are specifically written to UMO’s outstanding soloists. The concert will also feature a few older Partyka’s compositions and arrangements that skillfully utilizes the big band’s expression. Partyka has a relaxed and refreshing approach on big band jazz, which makes the concert approachable. The conductor is Ed Partyka himself.
The arrangements for the concert are exceptional: tickets are sold for only 200 people, and the audience is seated in the Savoy’s auditorium for 750 people with fair safety intervals. Tickets only from Lippu.fi online store, 15 € including service fee. Ticket sets for 1, 2 and 4 persons. Audience safety at concerts >>
Trombonist, composer, arranger and conductor Ed Partyka (b. 1967) was born in the United States but removed to Europe almost 30 years ago. Today based in Austria, he acts as UMO Helsinki’s Artistic Director and Chief Conductor in 2020–2021. He has collaborated with a number of renowned European big bands, including the German hr-Bigband and NDR Bigband and worked as a guest conductor, artistic planner and arranger for the Vienna Jazz Orchestra and Zurich Jazz Orchestra. Besides leading his own group, the Ed Partyka Jazz Orchestra, Partyka has collaborated with the likes of Bob Brookmeyer, Carla Bley, Robben Ford and even the Finnish pop-rock group Sunrise Avenue. He is the department chairman of the Jazz Institute at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz and teaches composition in the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Lucerne, Switzerland. Partyka is known as a first-class orchestra leader and expert on orchestral musicianship.
”Ed Partyka’s imagination and skills range far across the expectations of customary big band arrangements. Where others would write flatly, he combines with a fine sense strong rhythms, voluminous wind instruments, precise breaks and tender interludes with complex voice leading.” Werner Stiefele, Journalist
”Two most recent albums reflect a distinct musical personality and, often, his relaxed and refreshing approach to serious music.” Artsjournal.com
