HERD to Down Under!
Trio HERD starts their Australian tour in Tasmania next week.
News
News -page consists of current topics and interesting articles about jazz in Finland.
We Jazz to organise a one-day jazz event on Lonna on 30 August
Lonna, a cosy island just offshore Helsinki, plays host to a new jazz event, organised by We Jazz. On stage trio Elifantree, Laura Annika Quartet and We Jazz DJs.
Jazz Kiinnostaa 2 Years! Join the Garden Party at Radio Helsinki on 12 July!
Jazz kiinnostaa, the popular radio programme on air every Sunday on Radio Helsinki, turns two years. To celebrate the occasion, hosts Matti Nives and Teppo Mäkynen invite friends of the show to enjoy a glass or two at the back yard of the Radio Helsinki studio in Teurastamo. After the anniversary radio show, the host duo will take their record bags from the studio outdoors and play their best selections at 2-6PM.
Exhibition presenting Five Decades of Pori Jazz to open tomorrow
We Did It – Five Decades of Pori Jazz turns the limelight to the people behind the festival.
Drummer Chris Corsano on Finnish 10th Anniversary Tour
In addition to celebrating the 10th anniversary of Corsano’s first visit in Finland, the tour honours the birthday of the great Albert Ayler.
Turku Jazz 2015 to offer Finnish jazz world music and urban poetry
On Friday 14 August Turku Jazz time travels back 30 years; while on Saturday 15 August it will be all about jazz – Finnish jazz, to be precise – and the Turku Jazz Artist of the Year, Ilpo Murtojärvi. The festival closes on Sunday 16 August with Turku Jazz Orchestra playing the great Quincy Jones.
Finnish Jazz Federation is looking for a new director, applications dl 3.8.2015
Finnish Jazz Federation is looking for a new director.
Timo Lassy Band to perform at Aleksanterin teatteri on 7 October
Timo Lassy has announced a live show at Helsinki’s Aleksanterin teatteri. The two launch-shows of the new album, Love Bullet, this June sold out in advance. The album continues to win critics over in international jazz media.
Debut album out from Teddy’s West Coasters in July
As their name suggests, Teddy’s West Coasters, led by drummer-composer-producer Teppo Mäkynen, make a nod to the sound of the 1950s and 1960s West Coast jazz. The first disc of their two-volume debut album comes out at the time of the Pori Jazz Festival.
Janna and many others to star Flame Jazz Cruise in September
Recently chosen as the eco-friendliest cruise ship of the world, Viking Grace casts off to the rhythm of great jazz tunes already for the seventh time this September. The popular jazz cruise takes jazz enthusiasts to enjoy live performances from the most topical Finnish jazz groups of the moment on a swinging voyage on the Baltic Sea