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Finland’s second oldest jazz festival, Turku Jazz Festival, is just round the corner. The festival will now be organised for the first time as a part of the project, Jazz City Turku. The programme is composed of hot, big names of Finnish jazz – including Jukka Perko, Nina Mya, Dalindèo and Eero Koivistoinen.
The sophomore, Orient Express, comes out on the Tampere-based record label, Eclipse Music.
The one-day mini-festival will be held in Kalkkiranta, Sipoo, on Saturday 13 August.
The recently-launched cultural coalition, Jazz City Turku, which has seen three local players – the concert series Flame Jazz, the big band Turku Jazz Orchestra and the Turku Jazz Festival – join forces, has proved this spring that together is better than alone. It now looks more than likely that the tight co-operation will result in the most successful jazz year the city has ever seen.
The supergroup will be taking the stage in a number of cultural centres around Central and Southern Finland this autumn.
Tampere-based record label, Eclipse Music, tries its wings in the sphere of live music by launching a new jazz club in Tampere in autumn 2016. The Eclipse Music Club will offer topical jazz and progressive rock at Tampereen Ylioppilasteatteri, in the heart of the City of Tampere.
Limelighting rising Finnish jazz stars, the July edition of the Summer Jazz Club presents two already-acclaimed young groups: A-P Kauppinen Quintet and trio Katu Kaiku.
Dalindèo releases a video and a remix of the title track of their newest album, the acclaimed Slavic Souls. The powerball of a sextet will be playing their new material at numerous Finnish jazz festivals this summer.
Helsinkians will soon be able to jam along to jazz tunes at the Abattoir (goes by the name Teurastamo in Finnish) on the 22nd of July, as the food culture mecca introduces a new open air music festival by the name of Teurastamo Jazz. The stage will play host to a high-quality line-up of internationally famous jazz artists, with performers hailing from Finland and Italy. During the evening the terraces located alongside Kalasatama will welcome visitors in to taste summery delicacies, from pizza cooked in a wood-fired oven from Naples to Jädelino’s artisan ice cream. Like most of Teurastamo’s communal activities, this event is open for all and free to attend.
The third album, Closure, is a bold, personal statement from the charismatic and adventurous vocalist. On the disc, she is backed by a pack of such A-listing Finnish jazzers as Jukka Eskola, Jori Huhtala and Petri Puolitaival.
