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  2000 x 851, 633kB 5400 x 3600, 3MB 3885 x 2590, 2MB (photos: Marco Hakala) In concert Posters 2005-2014

* Dave Foxall’s picks in the annual Critics’ poll in the January issue of Jazz Journal magazine * Anniversary concert reviewed in Aamulehti 13.1.2015 * BM 10 years anniversary concert at Telakka, Tampere on the 9th of January 2015 (Poster: Visa Knuuttila). * Jumehniemi re-released! CD version out on Kauriala Society label, distributed by Töölön […]

Although mainly known as a drummer and a percussionist, Simo Laihonen also frequently expresses himself on flutes. Born in 1982 to Hämeenlinna and at first inspired by heavy rock skinsmen like John Bonham, he began taking drum lessons at the age of nine in Muurame, near the city of Jyväskylä. In his early twenties, as […]

A native of Tampere since his early twenties, Ville Rauhala was born in the neighbouring rural municipality of Kangasala in 1976. He has taken double bass lessons at the Pirkanmaa Music Institute and studied ethnomusicology at the University of Tampere for a period of ten years at the turn of the Millennium. One of his […]

Born in 1963 to Turku and originally inspired by strong singers and frontmen like Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley and Louis Armstrong, Jouni ”Tane” Kannisto picked up the guitar at the age of twelve. A few years later and a switch to tenor horn already behind him, the budding musician commenced playing the alto saxophone. At […]

Hailing from the costal town of Pori, Sami Sippola was born in 1971. He commenced playing the alto saxophone in his early teens both by jamming with local bands and by starting to learn the ropes at the Pori Conservatory. As the time of the mandatory military service arrived in 1990, he enrolled at a […]