News -page consists of current topics and interesting articles about jazz in Finland.
Top names in European improvised music and free jazz, Paal Nilssen-Love and Raoul Björkenheim, will perform at We Jazz Festival on December 4th. The rare duo concert opens the evening on Kuudes linja, which will also host Timo Lassy Trio feat. Reiska Laine.
Distinguished French saxophonist Sylvain Rifflet will play a unique duo concert in Helsinki with trumpet player Verneri Pohjola. Rifflet will tour Latvia and Estonia in late October with his band Troubadours.
The rising Finnish-Danish ensemble JAF Trio will celebrate their fresh We Jazz album at Hakola Shop on December 2nd. The concert will be held as part of the eighth We Jazz Festival, which will spread around Helsinki from November 29th to December 5th, 2020.
The acclaimed Berlin trio is complemented by saxophonist Otis Sandsjö, known from his band Y-OTIS, and producer Petter Eldh from Koma Saxo. Speak Low II will be released in November and celebrated on November 29th at We Jazz Festival.
On Friday, multi-instrumentalist Kimmo Gröhn's compositions will be heard at a birthday concert in Sigyn Hall and Facebook Live. The versatile musician has also invited guest soloists from his long career.
The Junior All Star Big Band (JAS), led by the Finnish Big Band Association, is a big band comprised of young Finnish talented jazz musicians. JAS will celebrate its 20 year anniversary this year and the big band will go on tour in October, covering five locations in Finland and two in Estonia. The program for the tour consists of compositions by Bob Mintzer.
Blow!, which was held for the first time last year, will take place from October 28th to November 1st in the surroundings of Töölönlahti. Admission-free concerts in several different locations introduce Helsinki residents to many shades of wind instrument music.
Due to the new regulations made by the government in week 40 and the restrictions of the Regional State Administrative Agency, Astoria Jazz Festival and Pete Parkkonen & Free Fall concert, scheduled respectively from 9 to 11 October and for 16th October, cannot be implemented at this time.
The electro-acoustically experimental ensemble Elifantree has released a new single. Sweden: Gold Dust is the second preview of the band’s sixth album to be released in early 2021, with international percussion artists from around the world as its guests.
Tampere Jazz Happening will be held this year featuring solely domestic artists and ensembles. On this exceptional year, the festival will be organized in a slightly smaller scale than usual. During the four festival days of October 29th-November 1st 2020, a total of 18 bands will perform at Pakkahuone and Telakka.
