Harri Sjöström

Harri Sjöström is a Finnish soprano and sopranino saxophonist, born in Turku in 1952 and based in Berlin since 1985. He works in free improvisation and free jazz, and has taught saxophone since 1980. Sjöström has a long association with Cecil Taylor, whom he met in Berlin in 1990 and with whom he worked on many projects. Sjöström studied photography and film at Lone Mountain College in San Francisco from 1974 to 1978, and his teachers included Steve Lacy. With Taylor he recorded Melancholy and Always a Pleasure for FMP and the two Qu'a volumes live at the Iridium for Cadence.