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Having delved deeply into
the song-chests of Estonian oldies, they have come up
with a fine selection of melodies
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At the Jazzkaar:
21.04. 22.00 Sossi Club
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All that glitters is not gold. And
all that’s golden, on the other hand, does not glitter either. Not necessarily on the
surface. So it often takes a particular kind of knack to spot the once-shining treasures
amongst the abundance of yesteryear’s music. This is not an easy task: to lovingly
sieve out the golden gravel, to lift the rough diamonds out of semi-oblivion and to
re-polish them into new, sometimes quite different gems. Yet this is the very task that
the three Estonian musicians, initiators of the aptly monickered project Estonian Gold /
Eesti Kuld are dealing with here. Having delved deeply into the song-chests of Estonian
oldies, they have come up with a fine selection of melodies by Ants Müür, Evald Vainu,
Olav Ehala, Raivo Tammik and the grand old man of Estonian jazz, Uno Naissoo. Originally,
not all these tunes were jazz pieces. Which means that the listener is in for a surprise
or three.
Raul Sööt, Estonia’s busiest sax man of the younger generation arrives right
from Copenhagen where he studies jazz. His previous memorable appearances at Jazzkaar took
place with his own group Deeper Sound. Jaak Sooäär, the electric guitarist,
brings the experience gained from furthering his jazz education in Denmark as well as
garnered from playing with various modern-minded and folk-flavoured outfits (Ajastajad,
Dynamite Vikings) The drummer Tanel Ruben, at present studying music in Sweden, is
member of the free-improvising Perception Unit and of several groups of mainstream jazz.
Two Swedes, pianist Peter Burman and double-bassist Thomas Markusson, ably assist the
three Estonian gold-diggers. The latter is the band’s youngest member – with the
future all open before him. Peter Burman, who teaches composition and arrangement
at Gothenburg University, has three solo albums and a number of movie soundtracks to his
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