News -page consists of current topics and interesting articles about jazz in Finland.
The main event of Jazzklubi -76 in the autumn, the first edition of Ilosaari Jazz Festival, will be held as individual concerts due to the pandemic. Despite the changes, Jazzkerho -76 will offer a full-fledged and artistically high-quality program over the weekend.
The SaloJazz Festival will be held this year, but in a compact form. The 2020 festival, the ninth edition of the event, will be held as a series of three concerts with Finnish performers on the last Saturday in September.
The recipient of the 2020 composition grant of the Church Music Composers' Association and UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra has been selected. The grant recipient will compose a five-minute work for UMO Helsinki's 16-member big band in the Silent Music church concert series for Easter 2022. Nine applications were received by the deadline.
The music of Gothenburg-based Dark Horse bends towards deep, experimental waters. Their newest single Brutet Groove gives a taste of the band's upcoming Listen album, which will be released in November by We Jazz and celebrated on December 3rd at We Jazz Festival.
The 7-day We Jazz Festival will be held from November 29th to December 5th. The festival program will feature ambient jazz pioneer Tapani Rinne, who will celebrate his new album at Helsinki Contemporary on December 3rd.
This autumn's Vapaat Äänet tour presents the most fascinating and fearless musicians of Finnish and French jazz fields, when Superposition led by drummer Olavi Louhivuori and the duo of French pianist Roberto Negro and saxophonist Emile Parisien will perform all over the country from September 22 to October 4.
Flame Jazz Cruise is here again! The jazz cruise, now in its seventeenth edition, will once again bring the long-awaited mini-festival to Viking Grace with six performances. The ship’s audience capacity is limited, and the audience is reminded of safety distances and face-mask recommendations.
On Saturday 19th September, the long wait will be rewarded and the premiere concert of Sointi's Kapina ('rebellion') will fill the Kapsäkki Music Theater with completely new music.
Five Nordic bands are featured at We Jazz festival on the G Livelab Helsinki stage on December 2, as part of the Nordic Jazz Comets project. The tickets for the showcase and the rest of the festival programme are now on sale.
UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra presents a new concert series Great Voices dedicated to stellar vocalists. The premiere in October 2020 brings the Israeli jazz singer and composer Efrat Alony to perform in Finland for the very first time.
