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Eclipse Jazz Club announced its first concerts for this winter. Concerts are held in two venues in Tampere: G Livelab and Kulttuuriravintola Kivi. The program includes such treats as Emma-nominee Signe and album release concert of the long-awaited album by Pauli Lyytinen Magnetia Orkesteri.
Jazz Voice School Helsinki is a vocal school founded by jazz pedagogs Josefiina Vannesluoma and Riikka Keränen. The school offers private and group lessons on singing, basics of popular music, music theory, songwriting and performance coaching. School welcomes all beginners and advanced singers to a jazz singing course starting in February 2020.
Jazz Breakfast – Nordic collaboration
28 January 2020, 9.30am – 11.00am
Spring season 2020 of April Jazz Club presents high-quality program of international and Finnish jazz performers. Program consists of instrumental and vocal jazz, and a couple of visits to soul music with special singer legends. Concerts are held in Tapiola, Espoo.
The 16th Flame Jazz Cruise departures next week, on 25th to 26th January. This year’s theme is World Jazz and programme includes of afrobeat, progressive rock, folk music from Kaustinen, Arabic music and bossa nova, to name a few styles presented.
G Livelab Helsinki’s just announced spring program offers also many jazz performers, including awarded drummer-producer Teppo Mäkynen’s band 3TM, 1960s favourites presenting Aili Ikonen & Jukka Perko Avara, Icelandic Sunna Gunlaugs Trio feat. Verneri Pohjola, and Australian jazz bassist Linda May Han Oh.
Band exchange project Heimojazz (”Tribal Jazz”) by Jazz Finland and Estonian Jazz Union continues in January. As part of the exchange, the Estonian and Latvian band Matīss Čudars Trio performs on Juttutupa’s Rytmihäiriö Club on Wednesday, January 15th.
Freshly out of Sibelius Academy with Doctor's Degree in hand, guitarist Sami Linna takes his quartet to the first Jazz Finland tour in January 28–February 7. The quartet – Linna accopanied by saxophonist Jussi Kannaste, Mikko Helevä in Hammond and American Dana Hall in drums – released their debut album on the stylish Timmion Records earlier this year.
Saxophonist Masa Orpana’s new digital Matkalla release consists of two new tracks Sisar and Matkalla.
Does your club/festival/venue already have international activities or networks, or do you have resources to launch that? Are you planning to book Nordic artists in 2021? Are you interested in developing sustainable touring models and partnerships with Nordic-Baltic colleagues?
