Esko Linnavalli Sextet - Finnish Design

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 1972
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 33:08
Size: 90,9 MB
Art: Front

(4:53)  1. On The Hills Of Carelia
(3:18)  2. Polska From Savitaipale
(2:57)  3. The Rose In The Valley
(2:45)  4. Polska From Koivisto
(1:14)  5. Strawberry - Take One
(1:23)  6. Strawberry - Take Two
(3:39)  7. There's My Sweetheart
(4:43)  8. Early In The Morning
(0:59)  9. Old Dance
(3:14) 10. Shepherd Song
(1:45) 11. Old Polska
(2:14) 12. Wedding Song

You might imagine that a set titled "Finnish Design" might be all cold and modern but the sound here is anything but and instead comes across in a really warm blend of creative percussion, unusual rhythms, and some especially great work on horns! The set was put together by Esko Linnavalli who plays a fair bit of acoustic piano and Fender Rhodes on the session but the record also draws from strong work by Eero Koivistoinen on tenor and soprano sax, and some rich trumpet lines from Bertil Lofgren who's got a way of stepping out in the lead, but with a fragile, human quality that really moves us. 

Jukka Tolonen plays guitar on the record too sometimes in ways that are a fair bit more subtle than his own records and other musicians include Seppo Paakkunainen on flute and recorder, Lars Urban Helje on bass, and Esko Rosnell on drums and percussion. Titles include "On The Hills Of Carelia", "Polska From Koivisto", "Strawberry Take One", "Early In The Morning", and "Wedding Song".  © 1996-2018, Dusty Groove, Inc. https://www.dustygroove.com/item/809199/Esko-Linnavalli-Sextet:Finnish-Design

Personnel: Conductor, Piano, Electric Piano [Fender Rhodes Electric Piano] – Esko Linnavalli;  Bass – Lars-Urban Helje;  Drums, Percussion – Esko Rosnell;  Flute, Recorder – Seppo Paakkunainen;  Guitar, Electric Guitar – Jukka Tolonen;   Soprano Saxophone – Eero Koivistoinen;  Tenor Saxophone – Eero Koivistoinen;   Trumpet, Flugelhorn – Bertil Löfgren

Finnish Design

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Esko Linnavalli Sextet - Day Is Over

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 1975
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 35:48
Size: 82,7 MB
Art: Front

(7:04)  1. 458 R.T.
(2:26)  2. Day Is Over
(3:54)  3. New Day
(5:34)  4. Playtime
(5:43)  5. Tanja
(2:56)  6. Summer Tune
(4:02)  7. Muggleton Air
(4:05)  8. Clear Dream

Day is Over, an album often credited to Esko Linnavalli Quintet but without any mention of performing group on the cover, was born during a series of Finnish Jazz Music Workshop events, led by Heikki Sarmanto and Esko Linnavalli, out which the New Music Orchestra UMO was born.A UMO-anticipating 14-headed workshop band gathered to rehearse at the rock club Tavastia in 1974. Out of that group emerged a quintet, who took a trip to Stockholm to record Day Is Over. The album appeared on Scandia Records in 1975 and has since become one of the most valuable jazz rarities of the seventies in Finland. The Svart edition is the first time this remarkable album is available after its very brief original run.
 

Personnel:  Esko Linnavalli: electric piano;  Eero Koivistoinen: saxophone;  Allan Botschinsky: trumpet;  Niels-Henning Örsted-Pedersen: double bass;  Esko Rosnell: drums

Day Is Over

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