The core of the co-operation between the Finnish and Estonian jazz organizations has been Heimojazz, a band exchange project which turns already 10 years today. Jere Haakana Varjosto visited Tallinn and Tarto during their Jazz Finland tour in early May, and their counterpart Lauri Kadalipp Social Jazz, will perform at Juttutupa's Rytmihäiriö club on Wednesday, May 22.
On Wednesday, May 22, at Ravintola Juttutupa, Rytmihäiriö club presents music from our neighbor country as the Estonian ensemble Lauri Kadalipp Social Jazz arrives to Helsinki.
Lauri Kadalipp Social Jazz features Estonia’s most brilliant young jazz musicians Allan Järve, Kirke Karja, and Tõnu Tubli. Together they experiment with jazz standards and original compositions. This young group has already given a countless number of concerts all over Estonia, so they're more than ready for an international breakthrough! Lauri Kadalipp is an award-winning young saxophonist. He composed his first works while studying at H. Eller Music School where he was recognized for both composing skills and saxophone playing virtuosity. He teaches saxophone in two schools, conducts Big Band Tartu and leads his buzzing modern jazz groups Lauri Kadalipp Social Jazz and Lauri Kadalipp Octet.
The concert is a part of Jazz Finland's and Estonian Jazz Union's Heimojazz project. The Heimojazz (“Tribal Jazz”) is a music exchange project, which takes two Finnish bands to perform in Estonia annually, and vice versa. The concerts in Helsinki are produced together with Freelancermuusikot ry at restaurant Juttutupa's Rytmihäiriö-klubi. In 2019 the federations celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the Heimojazz project.
Jazz journalist and Rytmihäiriö's promotor Markus Partanen has been a part of the project since the beginning, year 2009:
“Heimojazz concerts started at the Club Rytmihäiriö in the spring 2010. Estonian jazz was familiar to me and I had even played as a DJ together with Jaak Sooäär and Tanel Ruben. Back then Finnish jazz musicians frequented to teach at the Estonian Academy of Music and that is how I got the idea of booking young Estonian jazz bands to Finland. After the jazz federations of both countries came along to share the travel and accommodation expenses, it was easy for Juttutupa to start the cooperation”, Partanen recalls.
The academic jazz education in Estonia began later than in Finland, but Partanen thinks the levels are equal today.
"Interesting bands who create something new come from both countries all the time, and the mainstream tradition does not limit the expression in any way”, Partanen comments.
Lauri Kadalipp – sax, keyboards
Allan Järve – trumpet, flugelhorn
Kirke Karja – Rhodes, keyboards
Tõnu Tubli – drums