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Jun 4
This year the Finnish Jazz Federation celebrates 100 years of jazz in Finland. The arbitrary seeming moment has been defined by the ship Andania bringing over 600 Finnish-Americans to visit their ancestral homeland, including a band who played the first authentic jazz gigs here.
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Jun 4
Today, June 4th, is the actial 100th anniversary of Andania docking in Helsinki and the event is celebrated tonight at the Konepaja Biergarten summer Thursday evening jam session.
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Jun 3
Today's haul: Masaru Imada Trio 2: Green Caterpillar, Outer Worlds Jazz Ensemble The Kármán Line from @ATARecords
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May 26
You know what Tuesday in #Helsinki means...
It's time for the best all-year jazz jam session at Sörkan Ruusu.
Today starts with a tribute to Sonny Rollins with Riitta Paakki joining today's house band - Max Zenger, Juuso Rinta and Roope Kantonen, collectively Roope Kantonen 3.
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May 22
Today's record store haul, Mint Jams, 1980s live Espoo Big Band, new Alan Braufman and Kiri Ra! Out today on @wejazzhelsinki
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Apr 30
Manala After Work Jazz special Vappu session with guitarist Olli Soikkeli visiting from New York.
Three day weekend and vacation week next week! 🎉
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Apr 28
Weekly jazz jam at Sörkan Ruusu Helsinki - houseband tonight is Adele Sauros, Mikael Saastamoinen and Roope Kantonen
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Apr 26
Done with April Jazz and writing my blog coverage about the festival, so time to enjoy this weeks new vinyl.
Hot Heros going deep in Finnish folk jazz, reissue of Min Bul, 1970 Norwegian psych rocky free with Terje Rypdal, Bill Laswell and Matt Gold & Dustin Laurenzi.
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Apr 24
April Jazz 40th celebration
gig with drummer Jukkis Uotila who played at the very first festival in 1987.
International band with Seamus Blake, Gerard Presencer, Holger Marjamaa and Alex Claffy.
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Apr 23
Tonight at April Jazz Espoo: Wishamalii
A band noteworthy for making good use of pianist Kari Ikonen's Maqiano tuning tools that allow microtonal tuning adjustments to a standard piano allowing performing maqam inspired music and other microtonal stuff on any piano.
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Apr 22
Tonight at.öy hometown yearly cultural highlight April Jazz festival: Elifantree who are coming out with a new album May 8.
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Apr 21
April Jazz Festival is happening this week here in Espoo. Today's evening gig is Quite Vivian playing music from their debut album released in January
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Apr 18
RSD haul.
No Buster Williams Pinnacle reissue in the place I went to. Hoping to score one from the other local participating stores later.
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Apr 18
I hear Pinnacle didn't make it in time to the EU for RSD, so there is hope.
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Apr 17
Friday haul: Gabor Szabo reissue, Irreversible Entanglements and new Ricky-Tick Big Band & Julkinen Sana.
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Apr 11
Saturday record store haul: new duo percussion album Oresme by Mika Kallio & Janne Tuomi on Mustik Motel label, the recent @jazzdispensary Joe Henderson Tetragon reissue and the Immanuel Wilkins live on @bluenoterecords .
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Apr 9
Helsinki daily jazz life 2: at the weekly Graniittiklubi evening sessions there's something special, pianist/host Tuomo Uusitalo is joined by his partner Thilia Tamminen for a release gig of their charming duo album I Wonder with new songs in the traditional jazz standard style
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Apr 9
Helsinki daily jazz life: drummer Ville Luukkonen, guitarist Mathias Sandberg and pianist Arto Ikävalko today on organ play at the weekly Thursday Afterwork Jazz event at Manala.
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