Release Date: 16 February 2018
Label: Challenge
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 608917344325
Genres: Jazz  Contemporary  
Release Date: 16 February 2018
Label: Challenge
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 608917344325
Genres: Jazz  Contemporary  
Description
'Red' is the debut album from new band, Lithium. Lithium is the result of a collaboration of four talented jazz musicians and composers: Joonas Tuuri, Jonne Taavitsainen, Alexi Tuomarila and André Fernandes.
With many tours both as leader and with trumpet player and ECM artist Tomasz Stanko, pianist and composer Alexi Tuomarila has become a fixture in many European jazz projects. His fellow countryman, drummer Jonne Taavitsainen, is one of the jazz scene's emerging talents. Joonas Tuuri plays double bass and electric bass. In his career as a bassist, he has played in many different formations. In his youth, Joonas studied music at the Central Karelia Music Institute in eastern Finland and today studies at the Sibelius Academy's Jazz Department. The line-up is completed by the youngest band member, the Portuguese guitarist Andre Fernandes, who already has worked with a number of top artists such as Lee Konitz, Mário Laginha, Chris Cheek, Maria Joao, Tomasz Stanko, Bill McHenry, Perico Sambeat, Jeff Ballard, Julian Arguelles, David Binney, Avishai Cohen and Eli Degib.
"Red confirms not one, but many things – that jazz is still very much alive and being played at the highest level, that this universal language unifies us, and that it is possible to renew and maintain tradition in 2018". Chico Pinheiro
Tracklisting
The Eric Ineke JazzXpress Feat. Tineke Postma
Trichotomy
Enrico Pieranunzi & Bert Joris
Yuri Honing Acoustic Quartet
The Dam Jawn
Jussi Reijonen
Roseanna Vitro
Batik
Sultan Stevenson
John Patitucci
Tommy Whittle & Alan Barnes
Xhosa Cole
John Clayton & Mulgrew Miller
George Cables
Sylvaine Helary & Orchestre Incandescent
The Exu