Livestream: UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra feat. Kalevi Louhivuori Play Late Brookmeyer

Conductor Ed Partyka 

Livestream from Kaapelitehdas, Helsinki, without an audience. Watch the livestream on Thursday 10th February at 7 pm. On-demand will be available on Friday 11th February from noon, until Thursday 24th February. The concert is free. 

This live stream concert features compositions from the last period of Bob Brookmeyer's long career, interpreted by the UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra and trumpeter Kalevi Louhivuori. The conductor is Ed Partyka, who worked closely with Brookmeyer for two decades. 

Very few musicians have been world-class in one discipline, but Bob Brookmeyer (1929–2011) was a world-class player, composer, arranger, conductor and educator. He was an important sideman in some of the most innovative small and large jazz ensembles of the 20th century, and was and still continues to be an inspiration to generations of artists.

Bob Brookmeyer had an extremely long career in which his musical language, style and technic continued to develop and grow through the decades. The music written by Brookmeyer can be roughly divided into five periods based on his artistic and aesthetic evolution from the 1950’s until his death in 2011. All the music created during these different periods is of the highest quality and was extremely innovative but sounds completely different to music written by Brookmeyer a decade earlier or later. Other exceptional artists that share this breadth of creative achievement are Picasso, Stravinsky and of course Miles Davis. One other similarity to Miles was that Bob “collected” young musicians to work with and inspire him.

– The music that makes up our program in this live stream concert was all written in the last period of Bob’s life, while he was at the peak of his creative powers and had for the first time in his career his own jazz orchestra to perform his music the way he envisioned. The Bob Brookmeyer New Art Orchestra was a group of young musicians that Bob “collected” and formed into one of the most formidable large jazz ensembles of the modern era, describes Ed Partyka.

Duration about 1 hour. 
Photo: Teemu Mattsson
More information: www.umohelsinki.fi