Jazz Finland Live

Welcome to a unique concert with two Finnish professional big bands! For the first time ever, the UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra and The Finnish Air Force Big Band will join forces on the stage, together with the singers Antti Koivula and Elena Mindru as soloists. One big band is already big, two big bands are bigger still!

The concert program contains well known Christmas songs from Finland and abroad in arrangements for big band. The Finnish Air Force Big Band and Antti Koivula plays upbeat pop and rock Christmas songs by artists like Brian Setzer, EWF and James Brown. Elena Mindru, who debuts as soloist with the UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra, performs American Christmas songs in the swing and jazz traditions, as made famous by Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra among others. Finland’s two leading big bands also perform together in this Christmas show that’s unlike anything else we’ve seen before!

UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra is conducted by Ed Partyka, Jaakko Nurila leads The Finnish Air Force Big Band.

Duration 2 h 15 min with intermission. Tickets Lippu.fi 39 € / 34 €. 

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Talambo, which has grown from a studio project to a plush-sounding septet, will visit four locations in mid-December. The tour was originally scheduled to take place in the spring of 2021, but was postponed to the fall due to corona. NB! Concert in Joensuu on Dec 14 is cancelled!

The seven-member Talambo band, led by Jori Huhtala, will be heard in four concerts across Finland in December. The ”head start” of the tour produced by the Jazz Finland took place in September in Oulu, and now in December the line-up will finish its tour in Espoo, Joensuu, Savonlinna and Jyväskylä.

Talambo is a band assembled around bassist-composer Jori Huhtala's studio project of the same name, which performs music from the album Delusions of Grandeur released by Eclipse Music in the spring of 2020. On this record Huhtala returns to his first love electric bass, and plays several other instruments on the side, as well as being fully responsible for the recording and production of the record.

The members of the band represent the absolute top of Finnish jazz and their playing has been heard in several of the most distinctive jazz and pop bands of Finland, such as 3TM, Dalindèo, Ismo Alanko, Yona and Anni Elif - Edith.

Jori Huhtala (b. 1984) is known as an expressive and versatile bassist who has worked with numerous domestic and international jazz tops over the years, from Jukkis Uotila to the UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra and Dave Liebman to Tim Hagans.

Talambo 

Jori Huhtala, electric bass

Jussi Kannaste, saxophones

Joakim Berghäll, saxophones and guitar

Antti Kujanpää, keyboards

Sigurdur Rögnvaldsson, guitar

Tuomas Timonen, drums

Jaska Lukkarinen, percussion and machines

Talambo on Jazz Finland tour

Fri 10.12. at 17.30 Espoo, WeeGee

Tue 14.12. at 19.00 Joensuu, Kerubin sali – CANCELLED ON December 13! 

Wed 15.12. at 19.00 Savonlinna, Kulttuurikellari 

Thu 16.12. at 19.00 Jyväskylä, Poppari

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