sATURDAY 7.8.2010
AITTATORI SAT
Tickets 38 € / 35 € (with an S-Bonus card)
18:30 JUKKA ESKOLA QUINTET
Jukka Eskola trumpet
Jussi Kannaste saxophone
Jukkis Uotila keyboards
Antti Lötjönen bass
Jaska Lukkarinen drums
Jukka Eskola Quintet is a convincing bundle of Jazz music! It is run by one the most promising instrumentalists of his generation: Jukka Eskola, who has recently been seen everywhere where finnish Jazz has taken succesful leaps. The rich music of this band will bring you back to the 1970's, the golden age of funk-jazz, even though their music is strongly considered as modern by it's make.
20:15 UMO & HOW MANY SISTERS
How Many Sisters:
Anna-Mari Kähärä
Mervi Hiltunen
Pirjo Aittomäki
UMO
Kirmo Lintinen conductor
The creative and energetic UMO will be accompanied by three astonishing ladies. How Many Sisters is without any doubt part of the Finnish singer-elite. They have preserved their current lineup from as far as the year 1989, and have made distinctiveness and personality their trademark. The sisters draw attention with their broad musical spectrum and utilize humour and a multitude of expressional features in their top-quality shows.
22:00 TIMO LASSY BAND
Timo Lassy saxophone
Georgios Kontrafouris piano
Antti Lötjönen bass
Teppo Mäkynen drums
Abdissa ”Mamba” Assefa percussion
Saxophone player Timo Lassy has become key member of Finnish Jazz elite during the new Millenia. The crew presenting the creations of this ingenius and intensive Jazz persona is full of quality from bottom to top. The swing and intensive rythms of the 1960's Jazz live on in today's musical world.
FESTIVAL CLUB SAT
Vanha Paloasema Bar & Bistro, Kauppurienkatu 24
23:30-
Tickets 18 €/15 € (with an S-Bonus card)
KAHDEN MIEHEN GALAKSI
Seppo Kantonen hammond B3, synth
Joonas Riippa drums
Kahden Miehen Galaksi is a dynamic duo, whose simple mission is to conquer the world. Cantor Kantonen and his assistant, the Drum beating guenon drill, saw, nail and weld until even the final Jazz-police turns over their gun and badge!
NIEMINEN & LITMANEN
The inspiration for this duo was given by the Swedish Hansson & Karlsson. The idea was a simple one: "If they can do it, why couldn't we do the same?" Genre of this band is hard to fit into any regular categories. However The defining characteristic is the sound, that is born out of Hammond Organ and Gretsch drums. The ingredients of this soup are: Groove, psychedelic, jazz-melody, boogaloo and even rock.