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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.

Lauri Porra is a Finnish composer and musician, who comes from a family of professional musicians stretching back four generations, the most famous of which

Aki Takase released her first album in 1978, and she still knows how to surprise. In Tampere she is performing with her new quintet Japanic.

Trombone player Samuel Blaser took on the opportunity, presented by the Tampere Jazz Happening, to bring together a brand new, international jazz septet to interpret Don Drummond’s compositions. The world premiere will take place on Saturday, 2 November at Klubi.