Author name: Reija Lång

ENG Welcome to the opening of the new club JazzTelegrafen in Mariehamn. Come and enjoy the jazz evening with us on Thursday evening, September 12 at 7-10 pm in the restaurant Sjöfolk. On the JazzTelegrafen stage we have the well-known Åland band Whatclub Trio, whose guitarists Richard Palmer and Jochum Juslin and double bassist Kjell […]

FIN Arvoisat pääkaupunkiseutulaiset! Se on sitten meikällä stadikeikka luvassa la 24.8. legendaarisella, Olle Ekmanin liidaamalla klubilla Sture Jazz Barissa. Mukana huippukvartetti eli Risto Sakari Salmi/saksofoni, Markus Niittynen/piano, Heikki “Häkä” Virtanen/kontrabasso ja Olle Ekman/rummut. Kiva päästä pitkästä aikaa näiden herrojen kanssa tekemään jazztulkintoja. Samalla juhlitaan Ollen 27-vuotista, uskomattoman hienoa ja jazzmuusikkojen esiintymismahdollisuuksia edistävää työtä Ekman Jazz

ENG It´s an honour to be on stage with Lahti Big Band while they are celebrating their 40th anniversary on September 26, 2024. We´ll be playing the music of Nancy Wilson and Cannonball Adderley, with arrangements written by conductor, Erno Tiittanen. So happy to have a chance to sing this fabulous set again after 11

Hello Vaasa – here I come again to meet your fabulous jazz audience in a sunny atmosphere. It´s gonna be a special night as we´ll be playing during the official Vaasa Night of Arts. I have a pleasure to sing together with a new combo to me, Jockefeller Jazz Quartet: Roger Holmlund/piano& sax, Jari Ojalainen/gtr,

Summertime! A warm welcome to enjoy jazz classics on the legendary Hietaniemi Market Place. This summer the Helsinki City has build an outdoor stage to enable events and activities on the TORI. I have a pleasure to sing with these three swinging jazz cats – Pekka Mesimäki / piano, Ilkka Hanski/double bass and Heikki “Hessu”

SWE Varmt välkomna att se och lyssna på oss under en skön sommarkväll i hjärtat av den vackra staden Mariehamn. Vi kommer att spela jazzlåtar med sommarkänsla och groove. Med mig på scenen har jag dessa fantastiska musiker från Åland: Richard Palmer/gitarr, Fredrik Erlandsson/trumpet och piano, Tomas Tornefjell/trummor och Kjell Dahl/kontrabas. Vi ses på Kallas

ENG It´s time to celebrate Åland Islands self-government on June 9! The city of Mariehamn and their Youth Association will organise a two day event during the weekend June 8 – June 9, with a magnificent program of all types of culture – for all citizens from small kids to the elderly. So Langitude will

Valborg / The first of May Eve is a big thing in Helsinki and in Finland in general. It´s a fiesta or carneval – celebrating the summer time approaching and flowers blooming and trees gaining the delovely green colour! For me this is a special night as I have a chance to play once again

Finally I have managed to open my YouTube Channel. Yippee – so glad! You can enjoy the first videos – taken at the Pub Bastu 50th Anniversary Celebration, where we as Langitude Quintet had the honour to be one of the performing bands. Some nice stuff – we played a set combining Horace Silvers music

ENGLISH A fantastic event coming up on Friday, February 16. We Langitude musicians are happy and honored to be part of the 50th anniversary celebration of the legendary youth center and music mecca in Mariehamn, Pub Bastun. We will be honoring the repertoire of Husmus, a band that was influential in the 70s, and we