News -page consists of current topics and interesting articles about jazz in Finland.
The Helsinki-based jazz production organisation We Jazz is planning on releasing an exclusive documentary on the last December’s inaugural We Jazz festival. In actuality the venture is still uncertain, but We Jazz is confident that there are enough people who are – to borrow the organisation’s own slogan – “into jazz” to enable the project.
Jazz Finland Festival, that is organized in Helsinki in 18 - 21 September 2014, presents in its seminar program views to international music business and production of jazz events.
Koko Jazz Club was awarded with the JAMU prize 2014 by Jazzmuusikot ry (Finnish Jazz Musicians association). The prize is granted to any person or body in recognition of their contribution to the status of jazz music in Finland.
Markus Pesonen (b. 1984) is a Berlin-based Finnish composer, musician, sound artist and photographer. Pesonen employs an interdisciplinary approach to making art, combining art forms ranging from performing arts to music and visual arts. His new exhibition, "Water", is an audio-visual experience combining image with live music. Café Bar No 9 hosts the exhibition that opened on 9 June and closes on 6 July.
The energetic trio, formed by musicians from Finland, Iceland and Switzerland, has been praised widely for their debut album and its release tour earlier this year.
Sakari Kukko's new group, Helle ("Heat"), plays music that is in keeping with their name. The woodwind player-pianist-composer's band sticks to West-African music tradition but the repertoire includes also Finnish household composer's pieces in afrobeat arrangements.
UMO Jazz Orchestra and Club For Five will step into the shiny, swinging shoes of American big band legend Glenn Miller and vocal group The Modernaires. “Glenn Miller 110%” collaborative mini tour will bring the two pioneering Finnish groups together to Hämeenlinna, Järvenpää, Espoo and Kotka in September.
The latest issue of Sussex Jazz Magazine features a review of Tonight At Noon's live show on 5 May at The Brunswick in Hove, Britain. At the Brunswick, the vigorous Finnish combo, lead by drummer André Sumelius's, was joined by saxophonist Tony Kofi.
Koko kesä Kalliossa (All summer in Kallio) is a special concert series organised at Koko Jazz Club in Kallio throughout the summer.
At Vesijärvi harbour in Lahti from 11 to 14 September, Jazztori will offer anniversary celebrations and a wide array of live music. As 2014 is the year when Lahti Big Band turns 30 years and Jazztori Festival 25 years, festivities are indeed in order. For this purpose a special Gala night opens the festival, and starshine will be provided by dazzling guests Irina Björklund, HERD & Aili Ikonen and Lahti Big Band featuring Paula Koivuniemi. On Friday, swing will be switched to blues and soul by Heikki Silvennoinen and Sami Saari together with the big band Boston promenade. On Saturday the stage will be taken by a pair of long-stading groups, Miikka Kallio Band and Jean S.
