A Blogful of Indecision...
The other week we performed with the Tapio Maunuvaara Quintet featuring Inga Söder, at the town hall, here in Oulu, our "traditional" Christmas concert (if the second time in two years and be called "...
Read more →Saddened to learn that Lee Konitz passed away this week. Lee always had been one of my favourite alto-players and I especially I enjoyed his work with Mulligan, Marsh, Miles and of course his recordin...
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The great Jerry Bergonzi and myself after the concert in Elojazz 2017 After the Big Band concert I had the chance to meet one of my all-time heroes Jerry Bergonzi.
Read more →"Learn to BeBop on changes like Hank Mobley first. It tells you when to stop." Those were roughly the words one of my all-time heroes Rick Margitza said to me when I had the chance to have a lesson wi...
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A concert with trombonist Nils Landgren was planned for many, many years and now it finally happened. How great is that. I heard first about it many years ago and apparently this weekend’s gig with th...
Read more →Some of my favourite etudes that I ran into over the years are the Kröpsch Clarinet etudes, especially the first volume. The exercises are short, almost easy to remember and overall effective, challen...
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It's rare enough of an occasion that someone like Joe Lovano performs around here, let alone shows up on the Jam Session. So rare, that I almost forgot that I had my camera with me. In fact the whole...
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