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Jussi Fredriksson

Jussi Fredriksson is a Finnish jazz musician, composer, music pedagogue and producer. Born in 1980, Fredriksson originally hails from the culturally rich city of Turku and nowadays lives in Helsinki. He plays an active part in the jazz lives of both of the cities and works actively as a musician, manning both pianist/keyboardist slots and drum stools of several ensembles operating at the forefront of the lively Finnish jazz scene. Recently Fredriksson has also taken a more active part in the workings of the Finnish Jazz Federation, becoming a member of the organisation’s board in 2012. The Jussi Fredriksson jazz story properly begins in 1995, as the then 15-year old musician started working professionally in the scene. In 2000, Fredriksson relocated in Helsinki in order to begin his studies at the Sibelius Academy, known for generating a large portion of the current jazz talent in Finland. Jussi Fredriksson’s current band projects would be enough to fill an active musicians calendar. Each of them are highly respected ensembles and present a wide range of Fredriksson’s talent as a musician. The trio setting finds the man steering his musical boat on crystal clear tidewaters from behind his piano, Busy Turtles offers a more electronic approach, featuring Fredriksson on the keyboards, as does Reactor-5, an earlier successful band formation which was successfully featured at the Young Nordic Jazz Comets competition. Fredator is something special again, placing the man as a lizard of a drummer on top of a dancefloor-oriented acoustic groove. The Fredator suit alone is a sight to behold, and the top-notch lineup featured keeps the swing firmly in place. The latest of the Fredriksson-fueled travels in music is Jazz Wars, a veritable all-star group bringing together some of the brightest stars in the Finnish scene in an epic backdrop of a musical battlefield. Such high activity in various groups has quite naturally also led into Jussi Fredriksson forming his own record label. Fredriksson Music releases some of the man’s projects, such as the recent trio album “Tidewaters”, and the prior Busy Turtles effort, which also took the band across Finland on the Finnish Jazz Federation’s touring circuit. Highly relevant recently has also been Fredriksson’s work in bringing jazz back into the fore in his old hometown of Turku. The “Flame Jazz” project inserted a string of solid jazz programming into the Turku European Capital of Culture 2011. The project gave birth to the Flame Jazz association, which Fredriksson continues to lead beyond the initial project annum.

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Jussi Fredriksson Trio: !

Read "!" reviewed by Anthony Shaw


Jussi Fredriksson is a pianist and musician well established on the Scandinavian music scene, and despite the associations his surname conjures, is a very Finnish jazz artist. Haling from the old capital of the country when it was part of greater Sweden, Turku remains an important base, but he and Mika Kallio on drums and Jori Huhtala on bass are all veterans of the thriving Finnish jazz scene across a variety of bands.This album was pre-released in Germany ...

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Jussi Fredriksson "Busy Turtles" out Now!

Jussi Fredriksson "Busy Turtles" out Now!

Source: Michael Ricci

Pianist, keyboardist and composer Jussi Fredriksson released his debut album Busy Turtles in November 2009 with great reviews in his home country Finland. The album features top- class jazz musicians in Finland such as Tero Saarti on trumpet, phenomenal Teemu Viinikainen on guitar, Ville Huolman on bass and explosive Jussi Lehtonen on drums.

The CD is being distributed by Sony Music in Finland and Baltic Countries. You can download music also at iTunes and hopefully the album will get soon ...

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Piano

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Credentials/Background

Jazz piano teacher at Sibelius Academy in Finland.

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Archipelago Sea Tales

Flame Jazz Records
2021

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Fredriksson Music
2018

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Jussi Fredriksson:...

Fredriksson Music
2012

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