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- Juki Välipakka made his jazz-debut with his own band at 1995 and awoke immediate interest with some critics as a rarity in Finland, a male jazz-singer. Since then
he has been nominated the best male singer in Finland at years 1996-99
and 2001-2004 by the magazine Jazzrytmit critics poll.
- Some mp3 samples of Juki's music
Juki
& Round 5
- Round 5 (more info in english
/ finnish): Välipakka's new band, and
nowadays his main vehicle in the area of jazz-music, has in it's lineup
talented Finnish top-players who already have taken their places in the
field of Finnish jazz. They are: pianist Riitta Paakki, bassplayer Antti
Lötjönen, drummer Joonas Riippa, and guitarist Tuomo Dahlblom. The band continues to perform both jazzstandards with
their own arrangements, and Välipakka's original compositions.
Ad Lib
Quintet
- This far his only recording, "Jump", has been made with Ad Lib Quintet,
the band he formed with hungarian-born pianist/composer László Süle. The repertoire of Ad Lib Quintet consists of
both Süle's and Välipakka's compositions. The range of styles in their compositions is very wide, but the music could be described as modern cross-over jazz with influences from latin, classical, funk and be-bop, and, though with roots in tradition, it has it's own flavour. Their first record "Jump",released 10.3.2001, got
excellent reviews in the Finnish music-press.
Backbone
- Juki's rhythm 'n
blues-band "Backbone" has performed regularly since 2003 with
Dr. Feelgood -material. Now they are also doing the material of their own.
Besides of being a singer in this band Juki also plays harmonica and
guitar. The other guys in the band are Jouni "Londe" Siitari (guit.),
Antti Saukko (bass) and Jarkko Salonvaara (drs.).
Backbone
website
Other material
- Juki has made songs for his own jazzbands, lyrics for Timo Roiko-Jokela's
compositions, and both finnish and english pop/rock material of his own. A new demo of this finnish material has been made spring 2004.
He continues to work on these materials with new bands. Hopefully new
gigs will be in near future; some of this new english material was
already performed on his gigs in London, May 2004.
- Music for theatre has
also been composed:
"A trace of the sun on your face", 1993, "Burnt",
1997, "Surroundings", 1997, "Surroundings: Landscapes (A
pilgrimage into a city)", 2000 were dancetheatre-productions
coreographed by Inka Juslin,
video by Anna Alastalo. "The Home of The Sun" was a piece for
children, written by Hannu Lehtinen.
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