Jazz Finland Live

We are in for a night of energetic, creative and virtuoso playing on 3 May at Koko Jazz Club when saxophonist Pekka Pylkkänen brings the star pianist Benito Gonzalez to Helsinki straight from New York. The winner of the 2005 Great American Piano Competition, Gonzalez is renowned from his collaboration with Kenny Garrett, for instance.

At Koko Jazz Club Gonzalez will join a group of first-class Finnish jazz musicians: Pekka Pylkkänen on the saxophones, Jussi Lehtonen on the drums and Ape Anttila on the bass. The band will perform mainly Gonzalez's and Pylkkänen's compositions from recent years.

Benito Gonzalez – piano
Ape Anttila – bass
Jussi Lehtonen – drums
Pekka Pylkkanen – alto- and soprano saxophone

Joonas Widenius Trio celebrates the release of their new album Guitarra - Utopia - Musica. This group fuses flamenco, rock, jazz and many other genres into a thrilling musical mixture of their own that is sure to captivate the lister unti the final notes.

Joonas Widenius, guitar

Hannu Rantanen, bass

Karo Sampela, percussion

Duration 60 mins, no interval.

Tickets 20/15 e.

Open event