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In spring 2017, TTT-Klubi club series delivers 11 artists that represent a wide spectrum of genres from pop and rock to jazz and blues. With high artistic quality and topicality as the main focuses of the spring programme, the TTT-Klubi will be playing host to a number of anniversary and album launch shows as well as premieres.
Eclipse Jazz Club, a new jazz concert series run by the local record label Eclipse Music, revs up after a successful autumn period by presenting a series of top concerts this winter. In addition to the familiar locale of Ylioppilasteatteri, this time the club series will invade Cultural Centre Uulu as well.
Having released their newest album, Hurmos, at the beginning of December, the instrumental trio will go on a Finnish tour early next year.
The 4th We Jazz Festival is here again! Helsinki's most extensive jazz festival delivers a host of best Finnish and international jazz acts on 4-11 December. This year's international guests include American Mark Turner Quartet, Berlin-based Lucia Cadotsch "Speak Low" and Norwegian Huntsville, while Jukka Eskola Soul Trio, Dalindèo, Jukka Perko Avara and Iro Haarla Trio are among the many Finnish acts to be seen at the festival. There will also be a few collab projects, seeing Finns and international artists join forces: these include Helsinki X Berlin Ensemble, Otis Sandsjö & Friends and Dunstan. Again, the festival will also explore new venues, with concerts taking place at G Livelab, the Finnish National Theatre main stage, El Fant, Lapinlahden Lähde and Helsinki Contemporary.
Co-organised by the Finnish Big Band Association and Metropolia, the Finnish Big Band Championships took place on Saturday 26 November. Sointi Jazz Orchestra and Jyväskylä Big Band won the first prize jointly, while Junior All Star Big Band came third in the competition.
Pioneering reedsman performs at Turku’s Sigyn Hall on Wednesday 30 November and Helsinki’s Koko Jazz Club on Thursday 1 December.
Järjestyksessään 36. Kaamosjazz järjestetään Saariselällä ja Inarissa 24.-27.11.2016. Konsertteja järjestetään tänä vuonna yhteensä 12 kappaletta ja aiemmin tuttujen konserttipaikkojen rinnalle on noussut yksi uusi konserttipaikka, Saariselälle syksyllä avattu upea Aurora -tapahtumatupa.
The 36th Kaamosjazz Festival comes again! Organised on Saariselkä and in Inari on 24-27 November, the festival will offer altogether 12 concerts this year. This year's festival will also see a new venue play host to concerts, namely the newly-lauched Aurora on the Saariselkä Fell.
Jazz Finland LIVE support is now applicable until 15.12.2016 at Finnish Music Foundation. The support is for professional production of concert series and jazz club events in Finland.
50-year-old Jazz Federation invited its member communities again to get together and celebrate yet one more year of Finnish jazz culture.
The long-standing composer-pianist Heikki Sarmanto's career spans five decades and includes works in the fields of jazz, classical, avant-garde and opera. Despite the versatility of his repertory, Sarmanto's musical roots have always lain in the freer corner of jazz, and it is this side of him that the three-album compilation, The Helsinki Tapes, represents. Recorded in 1971 and 1972 at Helsinki's N-Club a.k.a. "Natsa", the tapes were lost for four decades until Sarmanto happened to come across them in his attic.
