Jazz Finland Live

Selma Savolainen, winner of the 2024 Jazz Emma award, brings her band Horror Vacui to Musiikkitalo summer terrace.

Selma Savolainen is a vocalist and composer based in Helsinki, who effortlessly combines Finnish folk sounds with jazz and alt singer-songwriter styles. Recently awarded with the Rising Talent Prize at the Pori Jazz Festival, she has been praised by the Helsingin Sanomat as a singer who is taking Finnish vocal jazz to new heights.

Her debut solo album ‘Horror Vacui,’ released by the renowned Whirlwind Recordings in May 2023, received the Emma Award, Finland’s equivalent of the Grammy, for the best jazz album of the year in 2024. The album features some of the most sought-after musicians on the Finnish jazz scene – Max Zenger on clarinets, Tomi Nikku on trumpet, Toomas Keski-Säntti on piano, Eero Tikkanen on double bass and Okko Saastamoinen on drums.

Welcome to the jazz jam sessions at the sunny terrace of Konepaja Biergarten (Bruno Granholmin kuja 1, 00510 Helsinki) – free entrance!

Each house band is an unique mixture of UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra’s musicians and other professional jazz musicians, combined with rising start talents from the jazz departments of Sibelius Academy, Metropolia University of Applied Sciences and Pop & Jazz Conservatory.

Jazz Jam & Brew is organised by UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra, Konepaja Biergarten, The jazz department of Sibelius Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki, Metropolia Music and Pop & Jazz Conservatory.

Thu 6.6.2024 // Theme: Music of Woody Shaw 
Kasperi Sarikoski, trombone & jam host
Kalevi Louhivuori, trumpet
Tobias Schenk, piano
Lauri Ikävalko, contrabass
Kasper Halttunen, drums

Thu 27.6.2024 // Theme: Hard Bop Jazz!
Manuel Dunkel, saxophone & jam host
Eero Dunkel, guitar
Lauri Ikävalko, bass
Alessandro D’Anna, drums

Thu 11.7.2024 // Theme: Kenny Dorham 100 years   
Mikko Pettinen, trumpet & jam host
Henri Lintula, drums
Jori Huhtala, bass
Andrea Marti, piano
Alina Pettinen, saxophone

Thu 1.8.2024 // Theme: Music of Lennie Tristano & Lee Konitz
Max Zenger, saxophone & jam host
Joris Roelofs, bass clarinet
Mikko Antila, vibraphone
Joe Peri, drums
Oskari Siirtola, bass

Thu 8.8.2024 // Theme: Henry Mancini 100 years    
Tero Saarti, trumpet & jam host
Sonja Kaipainen, piano
Filemon von Numers, bass
Ilari Kinnunen, drums

Open event