News -page consists of current topics and interesting articles about jazz in Finland.
Yle Radio 1's jazz programs merge into one, tight package, and take a new time slot on Sunday evenings, at 7.03pm. New records, burning topics, top concerts and a variety of theme shows can now be found on the three-set Jazzklubi program.
Three-year-old Flame Jazz has organized over a hundred concerts at over ten stages in Turku, and there's no stopping them in 2014 either. The spring programme follows their original concept of artistic diversity and a variety of venues.
Sibelius Academy is the first school in Finland to add national jazz history to its course selection on a university level.
A group of international journalists visited the We Jazz 2013 festival in December. Read the reviews on the British jazz magazines Jazz Journal and Jazzwise here.
Among other great talents, UMO hosts the visit of Grammy winning vocalist Kurt Elling. Elling visited Finland in 2011 and had a sold-out concert at Savoy Theatre in Helsinki. Now there will be two concerts: Wednesday 26th February at Savoy Theatre in Helsinki and the next day, Thursday 27th February at Espoo Cultural Centre.
Starting in February, Panu Savolainen hosts a series of club nights at the National Theatre's Lavaklubi.
The Finnish YNJC representative, vocalist Kadi Vija's quartet goes on tour with the runner-up in the Finnish YNJC 2013 competition, experimental Virta trio. The tour visits six major cities in Finland in January 9 - 22. Both bands are currently working on a new album: Kadi Quartet their debut plate and Virta already their second.
Festivaalilla nähdään paitsi lukuisia konsertteja, myös kuvataidetta ja poikkitaiteellisia esityksiä. Kluuvin gallerian jazz-aiheisessa näyttelyssä järjestetään ohjelmaa, ja myös lapset on otettu huomioon monipuolisessa, koko Helsingin keskustaan levittyvässä ohjelmistossa.
Black Motor, Rakka and Mikko Innanen & Andrew Cyrille Duo have two concert nights in NYC's Brooklyn and East Village in January, as a part of the APAC performing arts conference and Winter Jazz event.
The Order of the Lion of Finland awards 14 artists with Pro Finlandia honour. Musicians who receive the Pro Finlandia this year are jazz pianist-composer Iiro Rantala, singer-songwriter J. Karjalainen and opera singer Camilla Nylund-Saris.
