G Livelab Tampere's autumn jazz concert program released
G Livelab Tampere has announced its September-December jazz concerts. The program includes a varied offering of the year's most current domestic ensembles, from young stars to legends.
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The Hot Box Livestream: Kari Ikonen
THE HOT BOX is a portable performance and online art space for live streaming broadcasts. Livestream 6.9. at 6pm (gmt+3): Musician & composer Kari Ikonen takes the box to new dimensions with his Moog.
Turku Jazz Orchestra's autumn season begins with Jukka Eskola
Turku Jazz Orchestra will open its autumn season celebrating jazz legend Clark Terry's anniversary year on Wednesday 2.9. at Linnateatteri, when the dazzling trumpet player Jukka Eskola performs as a guest soloist. The concert will also be streamed live on Facebook.
Jazz exports in the Coronavirus era
This topic feels challenging to write about now when there is hardly any movement from Finland to abroad. The second season of Jazz Finland International, a project administered by Jazz Finland and designed to improve the export skills of Finnish jazz enterprises, was launched with positive expectations last year, but has ground to a halt this spring due to the worsening Coronavirus maelstrom. Jazz professionals still have their sights set internationally, but opportunities remain far and few between, despite many solid plans and available export support funds. Finland is far away from continental Europe, let alone the Americas or Asia, which remain effectively out of reach due to various restrictions regarding travel and size of gatherings. The situation would be very different if we were located in an area such as the south of Germany, just a few hours’ easy drive from a range of other European countries where, like in Finland, small events are still organised – although mostly programmed with local acts.
The fall 2020 jaZZanti concerts will kick off in September
The autumn program of the Helsinki Jazz jaZZanti concert series offers a diverse setting of performances.
UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra's concerts begin this week
UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra will return to the concert stages with the whole big band this week.
The "secret concerts" of the Viapori Jazz 2020 festival began this week
Viapori Jazz Festival is operating this year with a completely new concept. The festival takes its audience to Suomenlinna's closed places through "secret concert videos". The videos reveal the history of each location through stories and music from Viapori Jazz.
Baltic Sea Day is celebrated with jazz in Turku
Baltic Sea Day is celebrated on Thursday 27 August through various events. Archipelago Sea Jazz and Keep the Archipelago Tidy Association will organize a jazz concert at the Forum Marinum in Turku, where the Jussi Fredriksson Trio will perform. The concert's entrance fees are collected as voluntary donations to the association's activities.
Jazz City Turku serves up concerts live and online this autumn
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.
Jussi Lehtonen releases a new album in September
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.