UMO Jazz Orchestra and Club For Five will step into the shiny, swinging shoes of American big band legend Glenn Miller and vocal group The Modernaires. “Glenn Miller 110%” collaborative mini tour will bring the two pioneering Finnish groups together to Hämeenlinna, Järvenpää, Espoo and Kotka in September.
When one of the most distinguished big bands of the world and a top-class Finnish vocal group join forces, the result is a truly authentic trip back to the age of swing. As a model and source of inspiration for the concert series acts Glenn Miller and vocal group The Modernaires’s period of collaboration in the 1940s. Miller and The Modernaires performed regularly together from the early 1940s until the conductor-trombonist's tragic disappearance in the Second World War. Their shared projects were fruitful, giving birth to many hits and earning them the first ever gold record, selling over one million copies.
UMO and Club For Five's concert will consist of the tastiest fruits of Miller and The Modernaires’s collaboration, such as “Jukebox Saturday Night”, “In the Mood”, “Don't Sit Under Apple Tree” and “Blues in the Night”.
“The audience will be in for a nostalgic concert that pays homage to its model”, says Club For Five’s Tuukka Haapaniemi, promising that the 1940s will also show in costumes and hairstyles.
The concert was premiered at Savoy Theatre in Helsinki last February to a full house, and it sold out in a short time in March at Hyvinkääsali, too.
Glenn Miller 110% is not the first time seeing Club For Five and UMO work together. In 2011 the two groups delved in the realm of the tango in “Erilainen tangokonsertti” (“Different Tango Concert”), touring around Finland and playing surprising retakes on traditional tangos in almost 20 different cities and towns.
Club For Five lived up to all expectations and UMO’s performance was impeccable. Again, an exemplary collaborative project. – Jukka Hauru, Helsingin Sanomat, 14 Feb 2014.
Club For Five & UMO – Glenn Miller 110 %
Conductor: Antti Rissanen
Fri 19 Sep 2014 at 7.00PM Verkatehdas, Paasikiventie 2, Hämeenlinna *
Wed 24 Sep 2014 at 7.00PM Järvenpää-talo, Hallintokatu 4, Järvenpää ***
Thu 25 Sep 2014 at 7.00PM Espoo Cultural Centre, Tapiolasali, Kulttuuriaukio 2, Espoo **
Fri 26 Sep 2014 at 7.00PM Kotka Concert Hall, Keskuskatu 33, Kotka *
Tickets: *Lippupalvelu or ** Lippupiste (no extra fees) 33 € / 28 € / 18 € (without handling fees 30,50 €, seniors 25,50 €, unemployed, students and children 15,50 € + handling fee 2,50 €).
Note! Järvenpää concert tickets ***from Lippupiste (no extra fees) 33 € / 28 € (without handling fees 30,50 €, seniors, unemployed, students and children 25,50 € + handling fee 2,50 €).
Duration 2 hrs, including one interval.
Watch a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w093mTc-eSM
Club For Five
Club For Five, formed by five singers Maija Sariola, Susanna Lukkarinen, Jouni Kannisto, Juha Viitala ja Tuukka Haapaniemi, is a unique phenomenon challenging traditional ideas of the use of the human voice in music. The versatile a cappella group has brought audience after another to their knees with their sovereign talent both in Finland and abroad. Their style, hybridising jazz, pop, rock and classical music to a classy and distinctive mix, cannot be pigeonholed easily. Even though one cannot see any instruments on the stage, electric guitars and drum solos and everything in between can be heard at Club For Five’s shows. Most importantly, however, the group does no contend themselves with imitating musical instruments but always aims at a seamless overall performance as a group and at applying a playful attitude to music. Club For Five’s live shows are brimming with irresistible joy, energy and virtuosity from the first notes to the last. www.clubforfive.fi
UMO
Uuden Musiikin Orkesteri (The New Music Orchestra) UMO is a professional Finnish big band that plays jazz and jazz-related music on a wide scale. True to their name, UMO’s focus has always been particularly on new and topical musical projects. Indeed, one of UMO’s primary aims is making Finnish music better known both in- and outside Finland, and by ordering and performing new material from Finnish composers the orchestra is a key player in supporting Finnish jazz culture. All members belong to the cream of Finnish jazz musicians, and the band plays an important role as a school of practical experience to the most promising young musicians of our country. UMO is regarded as one of the leading big bands of the world.