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.
After three years, the Nordic Jazz Comets return to the Nordics! We Jazz festival hosts the five-band showcase at Helsinki’s G Livelab club on December 2, 2020.
The five national jazz organizations in the Nordic countries have run the annual Nordic Jazz Comets career and networking event since year 2000. The recent editions of the event have functioned as a viewpoint to Nordic jazz music and business to international professionals and audiences, as NJC has had the pleasure to partner up with the urban Scope Festival in Berlin, the massive EFG London Jazz Festival and most recently in Paris with Association Jazzé Croisé, the extensive French festival and club network.
At the Nordic Jazz Comets event the five upcoming Nordic bands have had the opportunity to perform to the local audiences and a hand-picked selection of European jazz professionals, such as festival programmers, journalists, label managers and agents. In addition to the showcase, the young musicians and the professionals have participated to activities, such as seminars and networking dinners together, to share knowledge, exchange ideas and strengthen relations between the artists and the business around jazz. For the national jazz organizations, the event has been a great chance to present Nordic jazz culture abroad, and to learn from other market areas.
This year, in addition to the showcase and seminar, the bands have a chance to work with a new community of Nordic club, venue and festival directors. The network of 12 jazz promotors from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, are in the core of a pilot project to create environmentally sustainable touring models in the Nordic region. The bands will get an opportunity to plan and test these collaborative tours in 2021.
In the spring of 2020, eighty bands applied in an open call for a spot in the Nordic Jazz Comets project and showcase. The new Nordic promotor network of 12 club and festival directors, selected the following bands to perform in Helsinki, and to be considered for touring in the Nordic countries in 2021:
ICELAND: INGIBJÖRG TURCHI BAND
Ingibjörg Elsa Turchi – electric bass, Magnús Trygvason Eliassen – drums, Hróðmar Sigurðsson – guitar, Tumi Árnason – tenor saxophone, Magnús Jóhann Ragnarsson – piano, keyboards
Link to Ingibjörg Turchi Band's introduction and music on Nordic Jazz Comets website (opens in a new window): Read more
FINLAND: KADI VIJA KEY PROJECT
Kadi Vija – vocals, Max Zenger – bass clarinet, Tuomo Dahlblom – guitar, Tuomas Timonen – drums
Link to Kadi Vija Key Project's introduction and music on Nordic Jazz Comets website (opens in a new window): Read more
SWEDEN: POST-SUN-VISION
Alice Hernqvist – piano, Aaron Mandelmann – bass, Mario Ochoa – drums
Link to Post-sun-vision's introduction and music on Nordic Jazz Comets website (opens in a new window): Read more
NORWAY: KJETIL MULELID TRIO
Kjetil Mulelid – piano, Andreas Winther – drums, Bjørn Marius Hegge – double bass
Link to Kjetil Mulelid Trio's introduction and music on Nordic Jazz Comets website (opens in a new window): Read more
DENMARK: SVANEBORG KARDYB
Nikolaj Svaneborg – Würlitzer, synthesizer, piano, Jonas Kardyb – drums, percussion
Link to Svaneborg Kardyb's introduction and music on Nordic Jazz Comets website (opens in a new window): Read more
LINKS:
Read more about the project and the promotor network on the Nordic Jazz Comets website (link opens in a new window): www.nordicjazzcomets.com
Read more about the We Jazz festival programme and get your tickets to the Nordic Jazz Comets night at G Livelab Helsinki on December 2, 2020 (link opens in a new window): wejazz.fi