News -page consists of current topics and interesting articles about jazz in Finland.
Quartet Ajaton will release its second album Early Music in the Latest Way on 28th October, 2020. As the name implies, the album features old music, mainly compositions from the Renaissance and Baroque eras which, in the warm but unconventional embrace of a special band, receive a new, significantly different interpretation from than is tradition.
World music festival Etnosoi! will be organized in the capital region 31st October–8th November 2020 following contemporary COVID-19 safety restrictions. The festival program will also include names from the Finnish jazz field and bands that draw on jazz influences.
Changes have been made to Tampere Jazz Happening's concert schedules due to new restaurant restrictions. The late evening concerts of Timo Lassy Band and Gourmet will be moved to other events, and the schedules of the evening concerts in the Pakkahuone will be tightened so that the program ends by 22:30.
Considered the father of Finnish beat literature, Pekka Kejonen's jazz collection has a particularly strong representation from avant-garde jazz and domestic publications. The first part of the collection will be available for purchase on Friday, October 23rd at the We Jazz record store in Vallila.
Bassist Kaisa Mäensivu's stylish compositions will be heard this Friday night at Flame Jazz. New York meets the depths of the north in a seamless ensemble by Kaisa's Machine at Logomo and on Facebook Live.
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.
