Concert Review “Music has to be smart!” defined by hit composer Erik Lindström, whose centennial concert was heard in a timeless jazz scene

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Riku Niemi Orchestra: 100 years of Erik Lindström at the Culture House 29.5.

“Worth to to offer better than what people can expect, “summed up the composer Erik Lindström almost ten years ago, at the age of 90.

“Music has to be smart!”

Lindström, from Helsinki, who composed many immortal songs, had an exceptionally diverse career at the time for 70 years and a few more as a performer: he died in August 2015, at the age of 93.

In a concert organized by the Riku Niemi Orchestra and scheduled for Lindström’s Sunday birthday, these years were remembered above all when the time was most favorable for his clever compositions. Lindström, one of the first generations of Finnish jazz, was a superior composer ace in the 1950s, whose international-sounding hits have lasted for a while.

House of Culture the hit tube was opened immediately on the first and also one of the largest, Olavi Virran in 1952 by recording Armillawho were knocked out by the bosses of the record company in the first round as unsuitable for Finnish tastes.

For the scar completely experienced Amadeus Lundberg another early classic also fell Cold love and he was also a star at the “tango festival” of the second half of the concert.

The very and uplifting essence of the concert may still have been in the jazz plays sung by the soloists of Lindström’s own popular dance orchestra in the 1950s, first Annikki Tähti and then Helena Siltala and Irmeli Mäkelä.

But The large orchestra conducted by Riku Niemi had a small refreshing angle: “women’s songs” were interpreted by Johanna Förstin, Annimaria Rinteen and alongside the Soulsisters trio are now equally men, in addition to Lundberg Juki Välipakka and Sami Saari.

The latter also received perhaps the most gendered song of the evening, first recorded in 1959 Rubber doll, where the narrator of the song is exactly the rubber doll that is a toy. Attitudes of the time were also heard in the second jazzy song of 1959, interpreted by Rinte Another from the rightwhere the singer is “a girl second from the right only, but soon the other girl is my local”.

The words of both were nicknames Hillevin i.e. Lindström’s wife Vuokko Lindström. She wrote texts for several of her husband’s later classics and was also largely responsible for Lindström’s top peaks, About French interest.

Sekin of course it was performed, but without the hustle and bustle of interest, for which the composer himself is responsible for the record. Lindström, who also played as an orchestra conductor, conductor and producer and publisher of the records, was, in his opinion, above all a jazz musician: a double bass player, a vibraphone player.

The second half of the long concert without songs Bass Ace and Whisk trade nicely complemented Lindström’s picture, a vibraphonist who reached the most glittering solo of the evening as a self-righteous soloist of the latter Severi Pyysalo.

Alongside them Late 1960s Elsa, child of destiny and Midsummer dances still sounded like the smells of the taste of the “people,” if the tongue from the smells composed on the cheek.

As it also sounded Tauno “Tappi” Sheltered recorded by the guitar band in 1964 Iron wire tango, whose performance was still not a mere curiosity. Riku Niemi from the orchestra’s drummer, who has celebrated his own anniversary Kepa About Kettus Skeba Kettunen, who stuck an electric guitar, hatched during it.