Once a decade the top jazz musicians of Finland gather together to create an album of brand new, originally composed Finnish jazz.

THE SUPERTEAM OF FINNISH JAZZ IS HERE AGAIN! 

Once a decade the top jazz musicians in Finland join forces to create a new album with originally composed, totally new Finnish jazz. The Finnish  media has described KAIRA as “the superteam of Finnish Jazz”.

• The previous album in 2017 was named “Urban Sagas Of Northern Cities”. The music was cool crossover between melodic jazz and urban funkysoul with two powerfull singers. 

• Soon will come out the new album “AIR”. It is modern mainstream instrumental jazz played by sextet with a strong horn section.

The musicians of the album “AIR” are Markus Niittynen, Timo Lassy, Heikko Remmel, Jussi Lehtonen, Abdissa Assefa, Kalevi Louhivuori and Kasperi Sarikoski. The music is composed by Lauri Kaira and Markus Niittynen.

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The TEAM 2022

The Finnish  media describes KAIRA as “the super team of Finnish Jazz”. These  world class award winning artists belong to the vanguard of the Finnish and Estonian contemporary jazz scene. Most of them run their own bands, but with KAIRA we hear them together:

•  Markus Niittynen of The Markus Niittynen Band and Markus Niittynen trio (piano),

• Heikko Remmel  of the Heikko Remmel Quartet (bass),

• Jussi Lehtonen  of the Jussi Lehtonen Band (drums)

• Abdissa Assefa of Giant Robot and Rinneradio (percussions)

And the great horns:

• Timo Lassy  of the Timo Lassy Band (saxophone)

• Kalevi Louhivuori of the Sun Trio and J.K.L Band (trumpet, flugel horn)

• Kasperi Sarikoski, well know for instance for his role in the UMO Helsinki (trombone)     

The Studio and songwriters

• The music was recorded, mixed and mastered  in the legendary Finnvox studios by Tommi Vainikainen.  

• The songs were composed by Lauri Kaira and Markus Niittynen.

The Team behind the “AIR” of KAIRA 2022 at the recording studio:

Kalevi Louhivuori (trumpet and flugelhorn , Tommi Vainikainen (recording, mixing and mastering), Timo Lassy (sax and flute) , Kasperi Sarikoski (trombone), Jussi Lehtonen (drums and percussion) , Heikko Remmel (bass) , Markus Niittynen (piano, composer, director ) and Lauri Kaira (composer, producer). Not in the photo Abdissa Assefa (percussions).