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Olavi Trio & Friends
Olavi Trio: Oh, La Vie!
by Glenn Astarita
These Finnish improvisers frame spontaneous combustion and mellower moments on their second outing for Tum Records. They're also one of many bands to dispel stereotypes that Scandinavian ensembles are largely about performing chamber jazz amid ethereal soundscapes, evidenced throughout the years on ECM Records and so on. Of course that's not a bad attribute, yet the region does breed a prismatic array of disparate musicians and artists that pursue cutting-edge nomenclatures by bridging genres with the greatest of ease.
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by Raul d'Gama Rose
In his fine dissertation, The Descriptive Grammar of the Ground--Almost Complete Poems" Brazilian poet Manoel de Barros wrote of the poetry that exists in everything, if one chooses to see it. The Beat poets, especially Allen Ginsberg, echoed this belief in emotive poetry. Similarly, Olavi and Friends--albeit in ways a lot more extreme than the Paul Winter Consort and more like Bill Laswell and friends--makes a similar claim for music. This often dissonant musical poetics has been expounded by the ...
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by Eyal Hareuveni
The most famous Olavi in history of modern Finnish music may be Olavi Virta, the godfather of the Finnish Tango. The Olavi Trio has little in common with the famous Olavi; it just happens that everyone in this trio carries the middle name Olavi--two, as their official names despite being rarely known by it. These three Olavis represent the history of the Finnish jazz: the elder, 70 year-old double bass master Teppo Hauta-aho, was a member of the Helsinki Philharmonic ...
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