News -page consists of current topics and interesting articles about jazz in Finland.
As has been the tradition, Sami tradition meets jazz at Kaamosjazz Festival in Saariselkä. This year’s festival stars the popular names of Sami music, Ulla Pirttijärvi-Länsman & Ulda and Niillas Holmberg with Roope Mäenpää. Sami music can be enjoyed in nine concerts altogether.
puls is The Nordic Culture Fund's three-year music initiative for the period 2017–19, which will act as a springboard for the creation of a Nordic music network. It will also seek to bring musical experiences of high artistic quality to a wider Nordic public. Altogether 46 companies and projects were selected in the program. Jazz is represented in Finland by the Turku-based event production association Flame Jazz and Helsinki-based festival and promotion company We Jazz.
British record label Edition Records releases the celebrated trio’s sophomore on 10 November. The group will play their new material live at London’s legendary jazz club PizzaExpress and Helsinki’s Koko Jazz Club, among other venues.
Turku Jazz Festival, the second oldest Finnish jazz festival will be moved back to March after four years of taking place in August. The new main venue will be cultural centre Logomo’s newly renovated theatre hall, Teatro. In 2018, the festival will host vibraphonist Severi Pyysalo’s 50th anniversary.
Hurry up! It's the last days to apply for a showcase at the Bremen jazz fair in April 2018.
The launch party for the EP One More Devil will take place at Helsinki’s club Dubrovnik on 25 October.
The lively nonet Njet Njet 9 issues their colourful second album Dark Soul on 3 November. The album will be released at Tampere Jazz Happening, followed by a launch tour.
Drummer-producer Teppo Mäkynen’s new music reflects his fascination with electronic music. The trio project 3TM sees Mäkynen manoeuvre somewhere in the borderlands of acoustic jazz trio, samples and electronic sounds. Single “Five New Dukes” and music video for the piece have already been released and the new album Form comes out on CD and in digital format today. The strongly audio-visual theme of the project extends to the album sleeve, photographed by Mäkynen himself.
The House of Culture Helsinki hosts the epic party that features some of Finland’s foremost artists from Kingston Wall Left Overs, Rinneradio and Melrose to Giant Robot, Emma Salokoski and Brothers Von Hertzen.
Jazz Jkl Live concert series presents top Finnish jazz acts at Poppari bar in the city center.
