Eero Koivistoinen Quartet

Eero Koivistoinen Quartet is the small group of Finnish saxophonist and composer Eero Koivistoinen (born 1946), who has been active in Finnish jazz since the mid-1960s. Koivistoinen studied at the Sibelius Academy and at Berklee, won the band competition at Montreux with a quartet in 1969, and was a founding member of the UMO Jazz Orchestra. In the 1970s the quartet, with Vladimir Shafranov on piano, Pekka Sarmanto on bass and Reiska Laine on drums, was the house band of the Belmont Jazz Club in Pori.