Olavi Louhivuori is a wonderful, sparkling Finnish drummer and percussionist with high energy and a real, positive vibe to his playing, inviting and challenging his fellow musicians to stretch for the utmost of creativity and musicality.
He has studied drums and composition at the Sibelius Academy. He has received the “Young Nordic Jazz Group” award three times with three different bands: the Joona Toivanen Trio, the Ilmilekki Quartet and the Sun Trio.
Olavi has played and toured extensively with the polish trumpeter Tomasz Stanko was well as Anthony Braxton, Marilyn Crispell, Susanne Abbuehl, Kenny Wheeler and. He has releases several album with his own bands and under his own name and received the Finnish Emma Award for Oddarang in 2007.
Olavi also composed a drum-concerto for a full symphony orchestra with himself as a featured soloist.
Thomas T Dahl, guitar
Olavi Louhivuori, drums
Mats Eilertsen, bass
Tour
7. Feb Tromsø Jazzklubb, Norway
8. Feb Hamar Jazzklubb, Norway
9. Feb AdLib Jazzklubb, Bodø, Norway
25. May Nattjazz, Bergen, Norway
Thomas has released albums with the band BMX with Per Jørgensen, Dingobats with Eirik Hegdal, and has collaborated with Erlend Skomsvoll, Jon Balke, Hilmar Jensson, Nils-Olav Johansen, Jim Beard, John Inderberg and produced Highasakites debut album. He is also associate professor at the Griegacademy in Bergen.
Mats Eilertsen, from Trondheim, Norway, has a special warm and lyrical way of treating the bass, being steady and experimental at the same time, bringing it all together and yet showing openness, willingness, and constantly searching for new sounds.
He is a very active and productive musician, a and has over the years appeared on albums by ECM-associated bands and artists like Tord Gustavsen Ensemble, the Source, Wolfert Brederode Quartet, and Parish, as well as Håkon Kornstad Trio, Food with UK saxophonist Iain Ballamy, Jacob Young Band, Solveig Slettahjell’s Slow Motion Orchestra and Håvard Wiik Trio.
He has released several albums in his own name on the Hubro-label and also made a commissioned work, Rubicon, for a 7-piece ensemble at the VossaJazz-festival in 2014.
He has also had the opportunity of performing with international stars such as Pat Metheney, Joshua Redman, Lee Konitz, Bobo Stenson, Kenny Wheeler, Tomasz Stanko, and participated on nearly 100 albums by now.
Olavi Louhivuori is a wonderful, sparkling Finnish drummer and percussionist with high energy and a real, positive vibe to his playing, inviting and challenging his fellow musicians to stretch for the utmost of creativity and musicality.
He has studied drums and composition at the Sibelius Academy. He has received the “Young Nordic Jazz Group” award three times with three different bands: the Joona Toivanen Trio, the Ilmilekki Quartet and the Sun Trio.
Olavi has played and toured extensively with the polish trumpeter Tomasz Stanko was well as Anthony Braxton, Marilyn Crispell, Susanne Abbuehl, Kenny Wheeler and. He has releases several album with his own bands and under his own name and received the Finnish Emma Award for Oddarang in 2007.
Olavi also composed a drum-concerto for a full symphony orchestra with himself as a featured soloist.
