Jazz Finland Live

Iiro Rantala, pianist, composer and probably Finland’s best known jazz musician internationally has a new band Flock, which is his first group with Finnish musicians in a decade. Rantala’s steady experience and endless creativity is met with fresh millenial vision and young talent, as he is joined by singer-pianist-composer Maja Mannila, guitarist-composer Johannes Granroth and drummer Severi Sorjonen, all known from the trending new groups Peela and Maja Mannila band.

Iiro Rantala, piano
Maja Mannila, vocals, keys
Johannes Granroth, guitar
Severi Sorjonen, drums

Ebeli Show 6pm
Iiro Rantala Flock 7pm

Free admission!

The event is co-produced by April Jazz Club and WeeGee.

Open event

Tickets 20/15 €

Tjango!'s musical roots lie in Jazz Manouche and La­ti­n Ame­rican rhythm music. Their greatest inspirations are Jazz Manoucheguitar master Django Reinhardt and Astor Piazzolla's tango nuevo, a combination that produced the group's name. Renowned for their charismatic live performances, the band also draws on Nordic folk, bluegrass and bossa nova. The band members are all highly respected as instrumentalists and professionals in the fields of jazz, art music and folk music.

Tero Hyväluoma – violin
Antti Leinonen – accordion
Tarmo Anttila – double bass
Juha Savela – guitar

Open event

Singer Eeppi Ursin is used to big arenas in the ranks of the group Club For Five. She has taken her own career forward last year in New York.

Ursin will present her program at Raatihuone in November. Eeppi and her band, who perform intimate stories and experienced songs, are one of the most interesting guests of the autumn at the Raatihuone jazz nights!

Eeppi Ursin, song, piano
Manu Dunkel, saxophone
Timo Hirvonen, bass
Jussi Lehtonen, drums

Tickets Ravintola Raatihuone
E-mail: ravintola@raatihuone.fi
phone. 050 408 6009

Open event

Tickets 15/10 €

Quartet Ajaton's Early Music in the Latest Way album release concert.

Mia Simanainen, vocals
Henrik Sandås, bandoneon
Markus Hohti, baroque cello
Kari Ikonen, moog-synthesizer

Open event

Trumpeter Mikko Pettinen is known from the ranks of the prestigious UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra and the renegade Helsinki-Cotonou Ensemble. Pettinen approaches the modern-day questions with his new electronic Why Not quartet. The Tampere-based Eclipse Music label released the ensemble's debut album Two Suites For The Change in January 2020. Pettinen's compositions on the double vinyl reflect the hopes and fears of climate change and the future of AI. 

http://www.mikkopettinen.com/music/

Mikko Pettinen Why Not
Mikko Pettinen – trp, fl.h, cornet, voc, efx, keys, Joakim Berghäll – bar. sax, bass cl., cello, efx, Vesa Ojaniemi – bass, electr, Tuomas Timonen – drs, Sensory Percussion

Jazz Finland Tour 2020:

Sat 31.10. at 7pm Tampere Jazz Happening, Telakka
Mon 2.11. at 7pm Oulaisten Musiikkiviikot, Merkuriussali
Tue 3.11. at 7pm Tornio, Musiikkitalo
Wed 4.11. at 7pm Oulu, Vanha Paloasema
Thu 5.11. at 7pm Raahe, Raahen teatteri
Fri 6.11. at 7pm Kokkola, Wanha Kalahalli
Sat 7.11. at 7pm Turku, Flame Jazz, Logomo, Move-sali
Mon 9.11. at 7pm Kotka, Kairo
Tue 10.11. at 8pm Lappeenranta, Ravintola Lamppu
Wed 11.11. at 7pm Joensuu, Kerubi
Fri 13.11. at 8pm Tallinn, Philly Joe's 

Open event