A nice video interview by belgian TV about my solo concerts & my ideas how to do them...
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- Saxophonist Esa Pietilä
- Jazz saxophonist Esa Pietilä from Helsinki Finland has performed internationally / nationally with various projects of his - Esa Pietilä Trio - "4 Streams" Quartet (with ECM artists Iro Haarla, Uffe Krokfors & Markku Ounaskari) - solo saxophone concerts etc., Esa has performed in Italy, Germany, Norway, Sweden, France, The Netherlands, Austria, Iceland, England, USA, Australia, New Zeeland, Brazil and Cuba… He has worked with Michael Jefry Stevens, Harvey Sorgen, Heiri Kaenzig, Jeff Siegel, Karl Berger, Mark Helias, John Esposito, Mathias Eick, Iro Haarla, Otto Gardner, Franziska Baumann, Christoph Baumann, Banz Oester, Mike Nock, Claudio Fasoli, Anders Begcrantz, Odean Pope, Raoul Björkenheim, Brian Melvin, Markku Ounaskari, Uffe Krokfors, Filip Augustson, Hilmar Jensson, Arthur Kell, Johannes Mössinger, Kjartan Valdemarsson, Fabian Kuratli, Jarmo Savolainen, Mika Kallio, Mikko Innanen, Seppo Kantonen, Ville Herrala and Erling Kroner. Esa has also stood on stage with many global jazz luminaries, e.g. Joe Henderson, McCoy Tyner, Carla Bley, Vince Mendoza, Maria Schneider, Ray Anderson, Steve Slagle, Rick Margitza...
tiistai 15. marraskuuta 2011
perjantai 20. toukokuuta 2011
New recording of the "4 Streams Quartet" coming in on next august!
Hello folks,
It´s now confirmed that we will do a new recording for CD with my "4 Streams Quartet" on next august. The group is ECM artists Iro Haarla -piano, Uffe Krokfors - bass, Markku Ounaskari - drums and myself. The music will be mostly my own original compositions on which I´m working right now...there will of course be a lot of improvisation too - both collectively and soloist-wise. I will be concentrating to write the music for this recording in some new way which is little bit hard to describe here but it will be at least much more avant garde, and written with the idea of thinking about the individuals in the quartet and their charasteristics as performers and their own sound in mind. It will be more like composing for small orchestra since our style is many ways like playing a symphony on which we also improvise along...it has been a real pleasure to work with these excellent artists on the past few year. We will then continue performing more in Europe & internationally after the release of the CD.
Looking forward doing this !
-Esa
It´s now confirmed that we will do a new recording for CD with my "4 Streams Quartet" on next august. The group is ECM artists Iro Haarla -piano, Uffe Krokfors - bass, Markku Ounaskari - drums and myself. The music will be mostly my own original compositions on which I´m working right now...there will of course be a lot of improvisation too - both collectively and soloist-wise. I will be concentrating to write the music for this recording in some new way which is little bit hard to describe here but it will be at least much more avant garde, and written with the idea of thinking about the individuals in the quartet and their charasteristics as performers and their own sound in mind. It will be more like composing for small orchestra since our style is many ways like playing a symphony on which we also improvise along...it has been a real pleasure to work with these excellent artists on the past few year. We will then continue performing more in Europe & internationally after the release of the CD.
Looking forward doing this !
-Esa
tiistai 3. toukokuuta 2011
News of future music
Hello all, during the last weeks I have been totally busy on composing new music and planning the future, bands, composing music for the next season etc.. New cd of the "4 Streams" Quartet is on my daily workplan now and will be recorded on next august. There will be other diverse artists performimg great music with me / my other groups, the solo-concerts will continue appearing also regularly, and some reeaaally great stuff coming out to daylight later on this year and next year....So keep tuned to visit here to check the news, and spread the word in the jungle...
just added a twitter profile where You can also see my posts and tweet me etc (https://twitter.com/#!/avantgardejohn)....My reverbnation page has now free dowloads of tunes for the fans and future fans who join in.
Thanks to all of my fans here & Reverbnation!
Esa
just added a twitter profile where You can also see my posts and tweet me etc (https://twitter.com/#!/avantgardejohn)....My reverbnation page has now free dowloads of tunes for the fans and future fans who join in.
Thanks to all of my fans here & Reverbnation!
Esa
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