>> The Five Corners Quintet
bio: The Five Corners Quintet is a Helsinki-based postmodern jazz outfit influenced by early sixties straight ahead and latin jazz. Led by producer Tuomas Kallio the Five Corners Quintet is a new extension of the highly acclaimed Nuspirit Helsinki collective.
The two innovators behind Five Corners Quintet, composer, producer and arranger Tuomas Kallio and the band?s benevolent svengali and record label manager Antti Eerik?inen initially were simply set out to release a few vinyl singles of stylish jazz music tailored for the dance floor. As the first three vinyl single releases received a huge response among the press and taste makers such as Gilles Peterson, Norman Jay, Rainer Truby, Jazzanova and Mr. Scruff and at the same were all sold out selling over 12000 copies in total, the Five Corners Quintet project slowly evolved into an established and more serious phase. This meant two things: setting up a live band and a CD-album project. In musical terms the goal of the FCQ is to set an example of how dance floor?friendly contemporary production can fruitfully meet the musical craftsmanship of the past, creating music that sounds as hip as the classic jazz records but is at the same time structurally polished and easily accessible music of today. Not housey nu-jazz, but jazz in the classic modernist spirit. Studio production In studio the Five Corners Quintet is a contemporary project gathering separately the right people for each song from a pool of musicians that are some of the very best players of the Finnish and international jazz scene. Musical production is utilizing both the analog and digital domain, drawing on tools from tape recorders to samplers and sequencers. Even though the final sound and feel is a lot alike, the production approach of FCQ is thus entirely different from a mid-20th century studio setting. Live The Five Corners Quintet performing live is another story. The live band is a phenomenal jazz quintet ? or at times a sextet or even bigger ? that can appeal both to a critical seated jazz audience and a dancing club crowd. On stage The Five Corners Quintet is a real band featuring real musicians: no machines, no samplers, no DJ?s but instead a lot of energy, interaction and world class level of musicianship. The live band consists of the very cream of the Finnish jazzmen. Eero Koivistoinen is a tenor sax heavyweight who has been around since the sixties. Jukka Eskola is a young trumpet phenomenon and the Finnish equivalent for Freddie Hubbard. Severi Pyysalo on vibes is a Blue Note recording artist and the drummer Teppo M?kynen, who is voted as the number 1 drummer among the Finnish jazz press year after year, is internationally known for Nuspirit Helsinki and his solo project Teddy Rok Seven.
Forthcoming CD-album The debut album ?Chasin The Jazz Gone By? is due to be released the 1st of September via a serious network of record label and distribution partners worldwide. The album will be featuring two world-class guest vocalists, the other one being none other than the 6 time Grammy nominee, ?Jazz singers? jazz singer?, Mr. Mark Murphy. The female voice on the album is Paris-based Okou who is a versatile vocalist and has been working with a lot of different kind of people from Mick Jagger to Keziah Jones.
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