Jazz Finland Live

Tickets 20 €

OutoJazz's Phuusioperjantai night club is kicked off by Acoustic Bike, who serves up a full-on mix of radio hits, shaken and mixed with their twisted fusion bicycle. If you've never had a crack at Bailando or Pate Mustajärvi's Ukkometso before, you will today! The skilled foursome sprinkles such a dose of stardust, jazz, funk and blues on top of these familiar groove-filled tunes that after the gig you'll notice your synapses have been rewired.

Joel Kenakkala has been making his own songs for about ten years, but in recent years he has also been rolling in with jazzier arrangements of pop songs. In order to bring the content umder his helmet to a wider audience, Joel has hand-picked a great group of players from his circle of friends to join him on the same stage. The band's set at Vanhan Paja night club includes Kenakkala's own compositions as well as vintage arrangements of pop songs from several decades.

Joel Kenakkala – keyboards
Petri Havukainen – guitar
Simo Rinkinen – drums
Sanna-Mari Savolainen – bass

Responsible for the final climax of Phuusioperjantai, PEELA is a supergroup led by Johannes Granroth, who present their own vision of today's social music with unabashed energy. In it, the styles of the African-American musical tradition merge into a coherent whole, where playful improvisation, strong melodies, juicy harmony and captivating rhythms play a central role. PEELA's music is strongly instrumental, but is sometimes embellished with Maja Mannila's virtuoso vocals. PEELA is a band whose ingenious and fully charged playing can be listened to with deep analysis so that the synapses melt. Or you can just let their phenomenal groove carry you away, dance, smile and rejoice with every cell. The stage is theirs - the decision is yours!

PEELA has already released three albums, the latest of which, Notbad, was released in March 2024 via Eclipse Music.

Johannes Granroth – electric guitar
Maja Mannila – keyboards & vocals
Severi Sorjonen – drums
Jimi Ahlroos – saxophone
Oliver Karttunen – bass

Tickets 25 €

OutoJazz's Phuusioperjantai kicks off with its brazen trio-driven Icelandic-Finnish-American Equally Stupid (2008-), which combines jazz and rock aesthetics, a punk attitude, complex rhythms, and collective improvisation into a coherent whole. Sigurdur Rögnvaldsson and Pauli Lyytinen's 20-year-honed playing together creates a recognizable sound for the band and a solid foundation for bold experiments, to which the band's new American drummer Sam Ospovat brings his own powerful voice. The trio has released two critically acclaimed albums, Exploding head (2014) and Escape From the Unhappy Society (2017), and a new album, Phantoms Among Us, is due out in the summer of 2025.

Sigurdur Rögnvaldsson (IS) – baritone guitar
Pauli Lyytinen (FI) – saxophones, live electronics, synthesizer
Sam Ospovat (US) – drums

Jukka Haavisto and his jazz ensemble, who will be heard as the second performer on Phuusioperjantai, are known for their intense and expressive playing style, which combines the innovation of modern jazz with the warmth of more traditional tones. In Haavisto's compositions, an open-minded combination of melodiousness and bold experimentation creates a deep and multidimensional listening experience. The trademark of Haavisto's ensemble, which relies on collectivity, is the growing live energy, as well as a constantly changing and developing structure - this makes each concert its own unique experience. Jukka

Haavisto and his ensembles perform regularly both in Finland and at international jazz venues, garnering praise for their distinctive and powerful energy. The OutoJazz audience at Teatteri Kiisu will experience a rich and surprising concert, where technical mastery and pure passion for music merge in a way that will leave no one indifferent!

Jukka Haavisto – bass
Johannes Granroth – guitar
Severi Sorjonen – drums
Vili Itäpelto – keyboards

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