News -page consists of current topics and interesting articles about jazz in Finland.
Jazz City Turku features seminal jazz music all autumn with a domestic focus. The programme includes interesting collaborations i.a. with Turku Philharmonic Orchestra and Turku Conservatory and music academy. The concerts can also be enjoyed remotely online every week.
Drummer Jussi Lehtonen, who received the Yrjö Prize in the autumn of 2018, will release a new album Connection on September 4th, 2020 with his own quartet.
The 21st edition of the annual Jazz-Espa concert series was organised with special measures between 27 July and 1 August. The festival drew over 2000 people to the Espa Stage and restaurant Kappeli to enjoy the free open air concerts.
Jazz Finland opens the post-corona touring season with a double-tour by solo pianist Kari Ikonen and Finnish-Danish JAF Trio (Adele Sauros – sax, Joonas Tuuri – bass, Frederik Bülow – drums). The concert venues are currently preparing their safety protocols, and they will post instructions on their websites, so please follow your local jazz club's social media and web pages.
Porvoo Jazz Festival 2020 will take place 25th–27th September. The festival will be hosted at the event's homestage Vanha 123, its downstairs pop-up club 123 Kellari and Porvoo Art Hall.
Validi Karkia's programme for autumn 2020 begins with Tribute to JK, a celebration of the father figure of Pori's jazz culture, Jyrki Kangas who passed away in 2020.
A new live music club opens on Iso Roobertinkatu in Astoria hall. Astoria Klubi's opening will be on 15th August and see Emma Salokoski take the stage together with Kalevi Louhivuori's Free Fall ensemble.
We Jazz Records releases the debut album of AINON, a Helsinki-based ensemble founded by cellist-composer Aino Juutilainen, on 4th September.
G Livelab Helsinki serves up a variety of Finnish jazz, folk, hip hop and alternative rock in August.
US saxophone player Stanley J. Zappa and Finnish drummer/percussionist Simo Laihonen come together on the new album Muster Point on We Jazz Records, August 7. The two students of Milford Graves add bassist Ville Rauhala on a couple of tracks to make a bold and adventurous album captured both live and in the studio while Zappa was touring in Finland with the Black Motor musicians. This is a set full of fire and thunder, but also features some more meditative spiritual jazz.
