Tampere Jazz Reviewed

Source: Jazz Journal.

Tampere’s programme always focuses on the contemporary (although some of the names may have been around a while) and after the Young Nordic Jazz Comets (one up and coming unit each from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden) were showcased on the Thursday, the programme proper kicked off on the Friday in suitably challenging fashion with Sweden’s Mats/Morgan Band. Zappa-influenced keyboards and drums with added bass and electronics, it was confounding and exhilarating in equal measure with labyrinthine compositions delivered with relentlessly high energy – a great start to a long Friday night.