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The Ministry of Education and Culture has allocated a special export grant of 80,000 euros for the project Jazz Finland International. The project aims to promote the internationalisation of Finnish companies operating in the field of jazz music.
On Times & Spaces solo saxophone meets live electronics. The disc is due out on 20 May on Eclipse Music.
The Tampere-based record label is determined to reverse the bad karma of Friday the 13th by releasing not one but two new albums: Unicorn Attack by Njet Njet 9 and Belonging by vocalist Johanna Elina.
Led by composer-arranger Rasmus Soini, the 18-piece Sointi Jazz Orchestra bring out their anticipated debut album on 21 May. Entitled Syntymä (Birth), the album is comprised of early material and will be available on CD, vinyl and in digital format. The group invites all fans to celebrate the effort at Koko Jazz Club on Sunday 29 May.
The club series is to be continued next autumn.
The 30th April Jazz Festival was attended by almost 9,000 jazz enthusiasts, exceeding all expectations.
Laivalla is a statement on the loveliness and madness of our time.
The upcoming 90-minute effort, MUOVIBABYLON (Plastic Babylon), combines spoken word and jazz with noise rock and flashback to the childhood of the Generation Y for a surrealist, cinematic effect. The disc is due out on 29 April.
The Finnish Jazz Federation will organise two traditional tours and two co-produced tours in the spring of 2016. Apply by an electronic form (link below) on May 3rd the latest. The Finnish Jazz Federation will complete the selection process in June.
Taking place in the courtyard of brewery restaurant Koulu on 18-21 August, Turku Jazz Festival has confirmed the first acts of this year’s festival: Dalindèo, Finnish Jazz Federation Jubilee Orchestra and the Turku Jazz Artist of the Year are to take to the stage on Friday 19 August. The programme will be released in its entirety at the turn of April.
