Jazz Finland Live

Manuel Dunkel – tenor saxophone
Antti Lötjönen – bass
Jaska Lukkarinen – drums

Manuel Dunkel Standards Trio punctuates to the core of jazz classics with a slightly different route than usually, focusing on rarely used jazz standards and elements. Timeless classics and their melodies might provide footsteps, but in this case, players are allowed to stray away from the path, conveying their experimental and unique expressions how they see fit. Included in the set are challenging takes on original songs by John Coltrane and Thelonious Monk. Listeners are in for a treat with the Trio’s swinging, virtuoso-filled soulful touch!

Anni Elif – voice, synthesizer
Pauli Lyytinen – saxophone, EWI, drum machine
Sigurdur Rögnvaldsson – fender bass VI
Tuomas A. Turunen – piano, synthesizer

”On foot I had to walk through the solar systems, before I found the first thread of my red dress” writes the Finnish-Swedish poet Edith Södergran in her collection of poems, The Rose Altar from  1919.  

The vocalist, improviser and composer Anni Elif Egecioglu have gone through many musical solar  systems with her unique voice. With her remarkably versatile musicianship she has influenced the  art scene of jazz and popular music as well as the classical field both in Finland and abroad. She  born in Gothenburg with roots from Sweden and Turkey and has since many years settled down in  Helsinki. Her debut solo album “Anni Elif – Edith” is based on Edith Södergran’s texts and was  nominated for Best Finnish Jazz Album at the Finnish Emma Awards 2018.  

The music invites the listener on a intimate journey where the fine tuned compositions meet an  organic and futuristic soundscape filled with improvisation. The repertoire is mainly based on  poems by Finland’s most internationally well-known poet and also the most important  representative of Finnish-Swedish modernism of all time. Södergran’s pioneering texts are  characterized by vision and the futuristic and symbolic currents of their era, which over a century  later now resonates naturally through Anni Elif’s musical language. 

“Anni Elif evokes at the same time the sounds and subtleties of Joni Mitchell as well as the passion  and intensity of Janis Joplin. The experience is almost gestalt in its extremes of both power and  delicacy, something of an aural hallucination.”  – Anthony Shaw, All About Jazz

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