Tampere Big Band - To the Stars - TBB Live! - Juha Untala - Alba ABCD 295 (2010)
SACD rip via PS3 to iso (2.94GB) | 24bit/88.2kHz flac | 6ch (2.74GB) (+5.98dB gain) | 2ch (1.10GB) DR12 (+6dB gain) | Jazz, Finnish, big band jazz

The music of Kari Komppa played by the Tampere Big Band & the Chamber Orchestra Prospero conducted by Juha Untala
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TO THE STARS - TBB LIVE! includes big band music by the legendary Finnish jazz composer Kari Komppa (b. 1939)
- All tracks are performed by the Tampere Big Band (which Kari Komppa also once conducted) & the conductor Juha Untala

Featured as soloists: 
Jukka Eskola (tp), 
Masa Orpana (sax), 
Jukka Hänninen (sax), 
Petri Nieminen (sax), 
Lauri Hannu (g) 
Aki Rissanen (p) 
and Chamber Orchestra Prospero

- The first 3 works on the programme are the 1st to be composed by Kari Komppa himself. "Until then, I'd only done arrangements of works by others, & I'd never used strings either."

- Tethys was a YLE commission for an EBU competition for "contemporary light music".

- The name Makumoka (which means approximately "in bad taste" but sounds good in Finnish) was the spontaneous comment of drummer/percussion virtuoso Ippe Kätkä on 1st hearing the piece in rehearsal.

- 1 of the movements of a 3-movement suite called Run of Three, Blues 26, was inspired by the blue City of Tampere buses. Komppa got on the wrong bus 1 night, resulting in a detour that called for a blues number.

- "Kari Komppa's by now legendary Aldebaran" wrote Helsingin Sanomat jazz critic Jukka Hauru in October 2004 after listening to a Euroradio concert entitled Jazz Classics of the Future given by the UMO Jazz Orchestra.

- The swing piece Saxlix is really an "etude" for the sax section. In the late 1970s it posed quite a challenge even for Finland's front-line musicians.


      Tracks:
	
01. Kohti korkeuksia (1975)
02. 458 R.T. (1975)
03. Konstrasteja (1975)
04. Tethys (1981)
05. Makumoka (1982/2007)
06. Blues 26 (1988)
07. Aldebaran (1977/1997)
08. Saxlix (1978)

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