Jazz Finland Live

Saxophonist Timo Lassy and drummer Teppo Mäkynen are known as the leading figures of the new Finnish jazz generation that emerged in the early 2000s. Over the years they have worked together in many acclaimed ensembles such as Teddy Rok 7, The Five Corners Quintet, Jo Stance and Timo Lassy Band. Now these top musicians perform with a saxophone-drums duo. Their live performance is versatile and exciting, varying from spiritual free improvisation to tight grooves - and everything in between.

Timo Lassy, ​​saxophone
Teppo Mäkynen, drums

The concert starts with a performance by Espoo Music Institute´s Pop and Jazz Department Ebeli's students.

5.30PM Doors
6PM Ebeli Show: Armi Lampela
7PM Timo Lassy & Teppo Mäkynen

Tickets €20 + booking fee (from €1,50, lippu.fi)
Students €15
Available at Lippu.fi, and if not sold out, at the door 0,5 hour before the concert.

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Mikko Iivanainen: guitars

The concert celebrates guitarist/composer Mikko Iivanainen's new solo album 'Lullaby For Lost Souls', whose compositions the artist performs on both acoustic and electric guitar. Iivanainen also uses a lower-pitched baritone guitar and a looper in some electronic songs.

The new album was recorded in October 2022 entirely in one day. Almost all the songs are first takes. 'I wanted as fresh, honest and live-sounding result as possible. Jyri Sariola of Mimix Studio was chosen as the recording engineer, who created great sounds for both acoustic and electric guitar.'

Music has a really big and varied meaning for me. Consolation is one thing I get as both a listener and performer. I feel some kind of responsibility to produce music in which this element would be present. The idea that we are not alone in this universe no matter how messed up the world around us is. If I can make even a small movement happen in one of the listeners, then I feel I have succeeded'.

Mikko Iivanainen is a versatile guitar artist known from many ensembles, who has recently collaborated with e.g. with Johanna Iivanainen, Maria Kalaniemi, Timo Alakotila, Edu Kettunen and Mika Kuokkanen.

The project as a solo artist started in 2019 and is characterized by an equal relationship between playing the guitar and composing. They are like two sides of a coin that feed each other. Iivanainen has previously released two solo albums: the prog-tinged ensemble album 'Last Room' (2014) and the solo guitar album 'A River Runs Through It' (2020).

Photo: Rene Jakobson

The concert is organized in cooperation with Viirus theater.

Tickets: Adults 15 €. Seniors, unemployed and members of Helsinki Jazz ry € 12. Students 10 €. For two 12 + 12 €. Advance ticket sales: Advance ticket sales: Viirus Theatre ticket sales

The concert is supported by City of Helsinki, Svenska Kulturfonden and The Finnish Music Foundatio

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Tickets €15/€10

Drummer Aleksi Heinola's international and renowned quartet serves stylish and energetically swinging 1960s hard bop sound with a modern twist on their album release tour.

in the tradition-conscious drummer's new quartet Jukkis Uotila plays the piano, award-winning Hungarian Gabor Bolla is on the tenor saxophone, and Swedish Daniel Franck plays the double bass.

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Tickets in advance from Liveto €15/€13, at the door €20
Doors open to Aatos Café's bar at 19:00, concert at 20:00

Album release concert.

Riitta Paakki Quartet's music is irresistibly effortless. The new album Väri is inspired by nature, visual arts, music and places dear to composer Riitta Paakki. Her swinging and clear piano playing style meets Manuel Dunkel's powerful and nuanced saxophone sound, and the whole is completed by the bubbling rhythm section of Antti Lötjönen and Joonas Riippa. In the more up-tempo tunes you can hear echos of the bebop tradition, and the calmer compositions paint traditional Finnish landscapes.

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