Jazz lovers will be grinning from ear to ear. Ville Lähteenmäki, a Finn–no surprise there–has done something special. On the clarinet. With his bandmates. An album that, adopting a thoughtful pose, casually drops a line you might remember from smoky student kitchens where either Oasis or Jimi Hendrix or something else was playing: »Hey, I’m just living in the wrong time. I can’t relate to all this crap today.« And that’s what this is about here. Ville Lähteenmäki, whose name makes you want to shout it out loud, doesn’t pretend that he wouldn’t rather be in the 1960s. Next to Eric Dolphy. Or Charles Mingus. Or Miles Davis. Whatever. As long as it’s from that era. You might be able to do that visually in your 30s, but age-wise it gets tricky. So you just do some musical time travel. Do it the way they used to do it. Free and improvised. As long as it’s without this bloody obsession with the latest trends.
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