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Festivals Talking

Jazzkaar Interviews: Kirke Karja

Read "Jazzkaar Interviews: Kirke Karja" reviewed by Martin Longley


Estonian pianist Kirke Karja has regularly appeared at the Jazzkaar festival in Tallinn, customarily performing in surprising settings, always delivering a fresh band combination, or a new set of music, or altering ratios between improvisation and composition, acoustic or electric palettes. During the last two years she has a.) been discovered by the rest of the European jazz circuit and b.) formed a touring trio with a stable line-up. This band also features the French bassist Etienne Renard and the ...

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Kirke Karja Quartet: Turbulence

Read "Turbulence" reviewed by Tyran Grillo


Despite the title of Turbulence, Estonian pianist/composer Kirke Karja and her eponymous quartet carry this vessel of an album through the smoothest of takeoffs and landings. Riding the jet stream of largely original material, it takes full advantage of its wingspan to cross borders. The title track is a compression of the album's entire trajectory. Opening with a trembling arco bass and Karja's near-plaintive arpeggios, it seems to evoke a wintry starting point with the brushstrokes of a ...

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Turbulence

Avarus
2017

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Turbulence

Avarus
2016

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Turbulence

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