Jazz Finland Live
KAIRA @SaloJazz Festival,Ravintola Musine, salo28.9. At 19:00
Tickets 20 €
KAIRA is an interesting combination of top musical and cultural influencers. Band's idea is extraordinary. Once a decade, a group of leading jazz musicians join forces to make an album of new Finnish jazz. The composition of the band varies according to the music genre.
KAIRA's second album, AIR, was released in March 2024. The music is written by Markus Niittynen and Lauri Kaira, and the album's impressive atmosphere is complemented by a strong brass section representing the absolute best of Finnish jazz.
Gigs on the same day in salo
Kadi Vija 3 @SaloJazz FestivalSalon kirjasto, salo28.9. At 12:00
Kadi Vija 3
Free entry
Kadi Vija 3 is a brand new entrant on the Finnish jazz scene. The band's music includes jazz, literally. The composition of the band and Vija's compositions resemble the traditional combination of trumpet/saxophone – double bass – drums.
Singer Kadi Vija, double bass player Mikael Saastamoinen and drummer Ville Luukkonen manage to create an environment and sound that includes the joy of music, freedom and space to experiment.
Sharón Clark / Mattias Nilsson @SaloJazz FestivalSalon seurakuntatalon Kuparisali, salo28.9. At 17:00
Sharón Clark & Mattias Nilsson
Tickets 20 €
Afro-American jazz vocalist Sharón Clark and Scandinavian pianist Mattias Nilsson have been touring together around the world ever since they met at a jam session in New York, 2012.
The acclaimed Sharón Clark is world-renowned for her vibrato and incomparable tonality She has been compared to the great ones. Clark has performed as a featured soloist with the Duke Ellington Orchestra, Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra, the Richmond Symphony, and the Baltimore Symphony, and she has won first place in the Billie Holiday Vocal Competition.
The internationally acclaimed and award-winning Swedish pianist Mattias Nilsson, has with more than two thousand concerts in 34 countries around the world established himself as one of Sweden's most personal pianists with his very own voice. Nilsson incorporates the Scandinavian folklore and Nordic melancholy, with influences from classical, folk and jazz music. Through his improvisations and a very warm and personal approach, this becomes a unique expression and a musical landscape with completely new shades of color.
Arppa @SaloJazz FestivalRavintola Musine, salo28.9. At 21:30
Arppa
Tickets 25 €
Known above all for his energetic, improvisation-based concerts, Arppa with his band is one of the top names in current Finnish indie-genre. Arppa's delightful music is timeless and the lyrics are like moving pictures - the insightful, sincere and perceptively described atmospheres move from Kokkola's Ykspihlaja all the way through night time Helsinki to a secret hideout with Laila Kinnunen on July '58.
