Jazz Finland Live
Blackmotor -klubi 3 vuotta: Seppo Kantonen,Pietilä -sali, Pääkirjasto Metso, Pirkankatu 2, tampere7.5. At 18:00
Black Motor is a Tampere-based trio in whose music improvisational freedom plays a strong role. The group is formed by Sami Sippola (saxophones), Ville Rauhala (bass) and Simo Laihonen (drums). All the band members possess a solid background in both afro-American music and countercultures of popular music, such as punk rock. As a highly individual purring engine of raw improvisation and stout groove, they have proved indispensable for the Finnish jazz scene.
Black Motor also runs their own club, Black Motor Club, inviting guest artists to give an additional kick to their tunes. This time, the feature man will be the honourable pianist Seppo Kantonen (b. 1963), whose career has been both exceptionally long and versatile - and continues today as vital as ever. Kantonen won the Yrjö Award already in 1985 - only a few years after he had made his entrance in the Finnish jazz scene.
In the course of his career, Kantonen has worked with UMO, saxophonist Eero Koivistoinen, drummer Jukkis Uotila and countless other colleagues and friends from the jazz department of Sibelius Academy. He has not shunned rock or popular music either, to the contrary. Kantonen's rock-collaborations include such names as J. Karjalainen and drummer Remu Aaltonen. Of his own groups one could mention the trio Klang and quartet Tokka, started at the beginning of the 21st century. Of course the abovementioned groups and musicians are only drops in the vast ocean of Kantonen's collaborations.
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Gigs on the same day in tampere
Dalindèon ja Nieminen & Litmasen kevätkiertueen päätösKlubi, tampere7.5. At 20:00
Dalindèo and Nieminen & Litmanen, two heavyweight talents of the Finnish jazz scene, join forces on a collaborative tour! The grand finale will be seen at Klubi, in Tampere.
During its 10-year existence, the Emma-awarded Dalindèo have proven to have a knack of merging different musical genres in a unique way. Their latest album, “Kallio”, took the group from the Brazilian dance floors of their early career to surf guitars and the bohemian side of the Finnish capital, and it is surely from here where the Balkan melodies and the influence of Finnish popular music of the1950s come from. Dalindèo is made of a strongly melodic style and cinematic feels and they are determined to make every member in the audience move.
The duo Nieminen & Litmanen has established itself as an inimitable instrumental dance band. This group has trusted its signature Hammond sound for almost ten years - successfully. From the beginning, Nieminen & Litmanen have made music that is both true to their taste and to the musical traditions their pieces draw from. And these traditions range from blues, rock, reggae, afro and soul to funk, popular music, rockabilly, punk, jazz and bossa nova.
