Timo Lassy - Love Bullet '2015

Tracks list

Up north in Finland, in the land of the hottest Saunas, longest winters and
saddest tangos, you can also find one of the coolest and most distinguished
saxophonist/composers on the jazz-scene today. Timo Lassy, acclaimed as a rising
star in US jazz bible Downbeat, hits us with Love Bullet, his fifth album and
his most accomplished studio work to date.

The entire album is definitely more personal than all my previous work, he says
of this sophisticated collection of ten instrumental originals. It tells a story
of the past few colourful years in my life. Having worked with an international
all-star cast ranging from the Italian style-master Nicola Conte to US jazz
vocalist José James and extending his talents into the art of film-music by
composing for the soundtrack of the movie Moomins on the Riviera, Lassy created
this mysteriously soulful music with his working band in mind, an ensemble that
was dubbed one of Europes sharpest bands by the Sunday Times.

Their sonic base is in the 1950s/60s hard bop, Soul Jazz and Latin Jazz
tradition, but the masterful execution and the progressive vision of all of the
players puts the music firmly in the 21st century. Like the films of fellow Finn
Aki Kaurismäki, it exudes an energy and a feeling at once markedly timeless,
traditional and tirelessly forward-looking. Quality swinging jazz with a
difference!, as Gilles Peterson calls it.

Tracklist:
0:27 | 01. Timo Lassy - Love Intro
5:30 | 02. Timo Lassy - Green Pepper Strut
3:52 | 03. Timo Lassy - Love Bullet
4:32 | 04. Timo Lassy - Hip or Not
2:36 | 05. Timo Lassy - Fast Fabio
5:23 | 06. Timo Lassy - Stay Close
6:29 | 07. Timo Lassy - We Jazz Theme
4:13 | 08. Timo Lassy - Waltz Unsolved
8:11 | 09. Timo Lassy - Undecided
2:23 | 10. Timo Lassy - Bullet Outro

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