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A two-part special concert by guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel will take place at the Savoy JAZZFest in March. Other performers ath festival include e.g. bassist Dave Holland, pianist Gerald Clayton, singer Samara Joy and vibraphonist Chien Chien Lu. The program of the festival, organized for the fifth time this March, is curated by the new artistic director Kaisa Mäensivu.
Held every other year, the Helsinki International Big Band Composing Contest will be organized again in 2023 by the UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra and The Finnish Big Band Association (SBBY). The competition, previously known as the Esko Linnavalli big band composition competition, was reformed two years ago, and the rules have been slightly modified again in this year’s edition.
The focus of the festival, which is organized for the fourth time this year, is the guitar and the world's best guitarists. In addition to Iisalmi the festival also takes place in Kiuruvesi.
As many as 80 percent of Finnish composers, lyricists and arrangers who write music are men. Over the years, the share of women among music creators has increased very slowly. Now Teosto has launched a project that maps the reasons why so few women or nonbinary musicians end up making music themselves.
OMJ Jazz & Etno series will feature eight wonderful concerts in the spring season of 2023.
One of the most followed names in jazz guitar will give concerts hosted by Koko Jazz in both Helsinki and Iisalmi in January 2023.
Concert recording of Ringa Manner, Alpo Nummelin, Valtteri Laurell Pöyhönen & UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra at Helsinki Festival is out on January 5 – watch a sneak peak of Toyota Celica.
The Oulu Music Festival Jazz & Etno Spring 2023 concert series in 25.1.–24.5.2023 includes a diverse selection of jazz and folk music stars from Finland and abroad.
Turku Jazz Festival, which started in 1969, once again brings light and joy to the spring and winter with a wonderful artist line-up. The series of living jazz legends will be continued by the master of both contrabass and electric bass, Dave Holland, and trumpeter Mikko Gunu Karjalainen, Turku Jazz's artist of the year, will join forces with a trio led by New York phonist Seamus Blake and Swedish pianist Mathias Landæus.
The 14th Kirjazz & Blues mini-festival organized in the milieu of Kirjaslammi's dance stage in Valkeakoski offers a treat for rhythm music lovers at the beginning of June. Linda Fredriksson Juniper, Emilia Sisco and KQ Groove will delight the ears of jazz, blues and soul lovers alike.
