Jazz Finland Live

Sarāb

Born from the meeting between the franco-Syrian singer Climène Zarkan and the guitarist Baptiste Ferrandis, Sarāb — mirage in Arabic –is a musical building that combines rock, contemporary jazz and arab traditional music which plays on borders and genres. The duo quickly turned into a six-headed creature, where each became indispensable to musical creation. Robinson Khoury’s trombone links with the voice, and navigates between the Eastern and European scales, between ornamentation and a personal technique. It is with the trombone and the song that we find the horizontality of the Arab music, upset by the rich harmonic verticality of the guitar and the piano. Sarāb is one of the most popular Band on the Parisian jazz scene.

Climène Zarkan, vocals (FR)
Robinson Khoury, trombone, vocals (FR)
Thibault Gomez, keys, vocals (FR)
Babtiste Ferrandis, guitar, vocals (FR)
Timothée Robert, bass, vocals (FR)
Paul Berne, drums (FR)

Ilkka Arola Sound Tagine

Ilkka Arola Sound Tagine consists of five musicians from the top of the Finnish rhythmic music scene. Bringing together musicians from different music genres creates an interesting mix of folk and jazz expression spiced up with modern beats and cinematic soundscapes. Especially Middle Eastern flavors are strong in their music. The band is known for its powerful live shows filled with emotional expression and irresistibly catchy grooves.

Ilkka Arola, Quartertone-trumpet, saz
Topi Korhonen, electric guitar, oud
Esko Grundström, bass, keys
Juuso Hannukainen, percussion
Okko Saastamoinen, drums

Duration approx. 3 h, intermission
Tickets from 29/24 € + delivery cost (from 1 €)

One of the most important figures to emerge from Afro-Cuban jazz in the ’90s, Gonzalo Rubalcaba is an extraordinarily versatile pianist able to blend disparate strands of Cuban and American jazz tradition into a fresh, modern whole. With fifteen Grammy nominations and four Grammy Awards under his belt, Gonzalo Rubalcaba has undoubtedly proven himself as an established force in the modern Jazz world. At April Jazz Festival Rubalcaba will be performing his solo piano concert for the first time in Finland.

Born into a musical family in Havana on May 27, 1963, Rubalcaba began studying classical piano at age eight, honing his technique in that area for the next 12 years while playing around Havana by night. In 1983, he toured France and Africa with Cuba’s longstanding Orquesta Aragon, and formed his own band, Grupo Proyecto, in 1985, the same year he was discovered by Dizzy Gillespie. The encounters with Gillespie and, in 1986, with Charlie Haden and then Blue Note Records president, Bruce Lundvall, set the stage to finally showcase Rubalcaba ́s talent before jazz audiences in the United States and internationally.

Gonzalo Rubalcaba, piano (CU)

Tickets 39/34 € + delivery fee (from 1 €, Lippu.fi)
Duration approx. 1 h 15 min, no intermission

Open event