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Adele Sauros Quartet's fourth album Your Special Loss will be released internationally in March 2024 by the Spanish record label Fresh Sound Records. The worldwide album release tour will take place in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Spain in the spring of 2024.

Finnish saxophonist Adele Sauros is one of the most active saxophonists, composers and bandleaders within the European jazz scene. She frequently performs with her numerous high-level jazz groups and projects from all around Europe such as Katu Kaiku, Superposition, JAF Trio and Jonathan Bäckström Quartet. She has been awarded numerous prizes and recently in 2021 she received the Finnish Emma prize of the best jazz album of the year with dummer Olavi Louhivuori's band Superposition.

Combining the styles of Nordic and American jazz, the Adele Sauros Quartet was founded in 2012 and has released three albums Adele Sauros: I Paint You (Fresh Sound Records 2021, with an additional horn section and horn soloists), Adele Sauros: My Spontaneous Mind (2016) and Adele Sauros Quartet: It's Who I Am (2014). They have performed at the most important jazz festivals in Finland and in the Nordic countries. The band recently represented Finland at the Nordic Jazz Comets event at the Montmartre Jazz Club in Copenhagen 2022 and did a tour in Sweden organized by the Finnish Jazz Federation.

The fourth album Your Special Loss consists of Sauros' compositions that tell stories about recovery and finding hope. The melodic and serious compositions draw influences from the Nordic and American jazz tradition. The members of the group are established and virtuosic jazz musicians with open minds and the courage to deviate from the usual patterns and throw themselves into spontaneous improvisation.

Adele Sauros (tenor and soprano saxophones)
Toomas Keski-Säntti (piano)
Vesa Ojaniemi (double bass)
Tuomas Timonen (drums)