Yazz Ahmed, who opens the Saturday afternoon concert at Pakkahuone, arrives in Finland straight from the Azores. Her new album Polyhymnia is named after the Greek Muse and dedicated to women – and first and foremost to the “courage, determination, and creativity of women”.
Pianist Sylvie Courvoisier, who performs in Happening with her trio on Saturday 6 November, gave us a mini-interview straight from her festival trip to San Francisco.
ESINAM, who recently released her debut album, will perform solo at the opening concert of Tampere Jazz Happening. She is arriving in Finland for the first time in her career, and a lot is happening in her life at the moment.
Timo Lassy will perform in two lineups at this year’s Tampere Jazz Happening. He gets the honour of concluding our interview series.
Drummer Reiska Laine has made it his mission in life to accompany and encourage other musicians: “An important part of my task as a musician is to boost and help the soloists to create their best possible performances – these musicians who will have their name in the headline of a magazine”.
Yrjö Award winner of 2006 Iro Haarla talks about her love of birds and plans for the future, that consist of performances with musicians from Tampere and Australia.
Longtime musician, pioneer of progressive rock Jukka Gustavson will perform at Tampere Jazz Happening after a ten-year break. On his new album, Prognosis, Gustavson discusses the sore spots of society, but according to Gustavson, better things are yet to come.
“If I were to start music from scratch, I would play the electric guitar loud and good as hell,” says singer-songwriter Selma Savolainen, whose band Selma Juudit Alessandra is performing at Tampere Jazz Happening for the first time.
Susanna Wallumrød reveals, how she ended up writing music inspired by Dutch renaissance art.
According to saxophonist Daniel Erdmann, freedom and democracy are the heart of Das Kapital.
