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The second CD contains the alternate takes, including two versions of the studio outtake Meat \u0026amp; Potatoes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Svart Records","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50382622916939,"sku":"2017738","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/test_38a4d989_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726254606"},{"product_id":"odysseus","title":"Odysseus","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOdysseus\u003c\/i\u003e, Eero Koivistoinen's first proper jazz album, gets its title from the wandering spirit of its songs, traveling from one mood to another. Performed by the Eero Koivistoinen Quintet \u0026amp; Sextet, because Koivistoinen wanted to extend his standard quartet (Koivistoinen-Sarmanto-Laine-Hietanen) to a quintet and invited trumpetist Bertil L^vgren to join. Also Juhani Aaltonen is questing on two tracks. Odysseus is an excellent, youthful package of forward-thinking jazz played by ambitious young jazz superstars-to-come. The compositions are at times lyrical, at others furious and complex, but ever captivating. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Svart Records","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50488849301835,"sku":"2028465","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50488851071307,"sku":"2028471","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/R-8258731-1458548524-6377_846bf766_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727632045"},{"product_id":"for-children","title":"For Children","description":"\u003cp\u003eMasterful Finnish jazz available again!  The 1970 album For Children by Eero Koivistoinen was originally released by the book publishing company, Otava, which was responsible for his earlier two albums as well. Jazzpuu\/S?hk^ Recordings  reissued For Children in 2006 as did we in 2016, yet both of these releases have been hard to find ever since. This time around Svart brings this important piece of Koivistoinen's career, a successful amalgam of acoustic jazz and funky fusion back on the market on a limited Svart exclusive blue vinyl edition, classic black vinyl and CD.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Svart Records","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50488852840779,"sku":"2028464","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50488852971851,"sku":"2028474","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/eero-koivistoinen-for-children-Cover-Art_207f0bc9_thumbnail_4096.webp?v=1727632076"},{"product_id":"altered-pictures-the-complete-new-york-recordings-1983-1991","title":"Altered Pictures - The Complete New York Recordings 1983\/1991","description":"\u003cp\u003e3CD set featuring two original albums and full disc of bonus material. Includes a 20 page booklet with track details and liner notes by Eero Koivistoinen and Ron McClure. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"For a long time already, I had been dreaming of a recording session in New York. The dream came true on the 14th and 15th of November, 1983. I had been thinking of a classic line-up: trumpet and tenor saxophone + guitar, piano, bass, and drums. My good old friend, the bassist Ron McClure, promised his help with contacting the musicians. For the drums we got Jack De Johnette, who played together with Ron in the famous Charles Lloyd Quartet. John Scofield, my fellow student in Berklee College of Music, was going to play guitar. Sco had just been called for the band of Miles Davis. Jim McNeely, the pianist, was familiar to me from Pori Jazz Festival where he had played with Ted Curson. Jim was a member of the Stan Getz Quartet at the time. The brilliant Tom Harrel was to play trumpet. We got all the musicians we had wished for: we had gathered a real dream team!\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Svart","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50490342932811,"sku":"1127487","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/04e111a5-41ba-432c-a7ad-bcad3f65e424_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727659104"},{"product_id":"the-original-sin","title":"The Original Sin","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst time ever on CD!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKoivistoinen produced a body of work of amazing depth, beauty, sophistication and intellectual significance, which remains as a wonderful illustration of the Finnish and European Jazz heritage during that decade. However, by the end of the 1970s, the immense popularity, which European Jazz managed to kindle, was gradually losing its steam. Record labels, owned by international mogul corporations, lost interest in any kind of adventurous music, Jazz included, and the number of Jazz releases went down considerably, a situation which affected Finland as well. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUndeterred by this turn of events Koivistoinen decided to take matters into his own hands and established in 1983 one of the first musician-owned independent record labels, PRO Records, which enabled him to realize his musical projects. This album is a deeply significant milestone in Koivistoinen’s musical development, since it presents for the first time the true depth of his compositions as well as his overall musical approach. It is also his first work with a large-scale ensemble, which enables him to utilize his arranging skills to a full extent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoth the music and the performances are absolutely breathtaking, although the album focuses on ensemble playing rather than on extensive soloing, but of course there are still plenty of most impressive solos. An atmosphere of serenity, contemplation and wide-open spaces, typical in Finnish music, prevails even in the up-tempo passages, which turns listening to this album into a most satisfying love affair with music. The fact that it is now almost 50 years old is completely meaningless in this context, where true classics only get better with time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Svart","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50526863491403,"sku":"1114899","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/c458c0ff-6ca5-46c1-85c0-2acc90ae4ae4_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1728049198"},{"product_id":"jappa-the-complete-jazz-at-the-polytechnicum-1967-1968","title":"Jappa - The Complete Jazz at The Polytechnicum 1967-1968","description":"\u003cp\u003eA Svart Mondo Release. These are the Holy Grail of Finnish Jazz - the earliest recordings by Koivistoinen, the living legend of contemporary Nordic Jazz, and they are reissued here for the first time since 1968.By early 1960's, jazz in its mainstream form had become the standard dance music for the student parties in high schools and several student union clubrooms in Helsinki. The Polytech union even organized matinee dances for high school students on Sundays. The change in the musical preference of young people's dance music occurred with the arrival of British rock in the mid-sixties and this, of course, coincided with another cultural and musical development.As the new campus for the school was built in Otaniemi, Espoo in 1955-1966 and its operations gradually moved there, the modern style \"Dipoli\" building became the crowning edifice on the campus. It was to be the new home for the Polytech student union. When this controversial building was opened in 1966, it was meant to introduce a new vision of the future and constituted an embodiment of the modernist spirit of those times in the late 1960's.This reissue of The Complete Jazz at the Polytechnicum recordings, done in 1967-68, also provides us with a glimpse of the modern directions of those days, not only in jazz music, but also in performance art. It is easy to hear that the main aesthetic in these performances was to break conventions and find new avenues for individual expression. The publisher of these recordings was the Jazz Society of the Tech Students, which was formed a little before these recordings. The name of the society was a take-off from Norman Granz' Jazz at The Philharmonic and it became Jazz at the Polytechnicum. Both are, of course, abbreviated as J.A.T.P., which became formulated in musicians' mouths into \"Jappa\".This Svart Records re-issue consists of four EP-records in chronological order. The first three feature three jazz groups of the leading young players with their ages ranging from 21 to 30. 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We invited Jack De Johnette and John Scofield again, for the trumpet we got great Randy Brecker. Conrad Herwig was to play trombone and Dave Kikoski piano. All of the guys were busy and in great demand, I was lucky to get them along. Now we had a new dream team. Once again, I was really a lucky fellow! We got a smaller room on the B side of the respected Clinton Studio for the 25th and 26th of September, with the experienced Jim Anderson as our engineer. This time, the musicians wished to have demos and sheets of music in advance, if only possible. I sent them material by mail.When in New York, I stayed at Ron McClure's place; his couch was already familiar to me from my earlier visits. Before recording, we played the compositions once live at Visiones Jazz Club in the Village. It was good to get some touch with the music before recording it. The studio had been booked for two days, Sco got along on the second day. 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