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.
Words & Music (The Last Bandstand)
"A small gift for a great Cecil Taylor history. On 23 April 2016, Jay Sanders organised and recorded a concert whose significance at the time was impossible to estimate. The great Cecil Taylor was accompanied by the wonderful musicians Okkyung Lee, T…
SoundScapes Festival # 4 Berlin 2023
"Finnish saxophonist Harri Sjöström has been calling Berlin home for nearly 40 years, and for over 10 of them, he has been organizing concerts at venues around the city, featuring a who-is-who of the city's rich improvisation scene and beyond, under …
Ictus@45 – Out Off Nights
Legendary percussionist, leader and founder of Ictus Records, a publishing house legendary in the world of improvised music. He has recorded with Derek Bailey, Steve Lacy, Don Cherry and an infinite number of the world's most creative artists. Andrea…
Flight Mode (Live In Berlin 2023)
"Legendary saxophonist and improviser Harri Sjostrom knows how to build bands. This has certainly been the case since the Lifting The Bandstand album, but back then the great Cecil Taylor was the leader. This is certainly one of the many lessons Harr…
Especially For You
“Repeated listening discovers more and more nuances in the subtle interplay and the clever and endless sonic games of these pioneers of European improvised music.” - Eyal Hareuveni, Salt Peanuts
Wells
"Amirani Records, the label founded and run by Milanese soprano saxophonist Gianni Mimmo, ends its eighteen-year run with three final releases. The last of the three, a recording of the Sestetto Internazionale, was reviewed here earlier; preceding it…
SoundScapes # 3 Festival Munich - 2021 SchwereReiter
'14 musicians from nine different countries went on a sound journey directed only by their own musical fantasy, no borders – except one, more about that later. The venue, the newly built „Schwere Reiter“ in Munich, is perfect for this: clear acoustic…
Move in Moers
Fundacja Słuchaj! presents Move in Moers by In Moers. Live concert recorded by Moers Festival 8th June 2019. Sound engineer: Thomas Block. Mixing/mastering: Patrick Römer, Unisono Studio – Berlin. All music by Achim Kaufmann (GEMA), Dag Magnus Narve…