AKI RISSANEN/JUSSI LEHTONEN QU

In some ways it's the Jazz all about the relationship between tradition and progress. On the new album of the Aki Rissanen and Jussi Lehtonen Quartet with Dave Liebman but the connections between past and future are as close as never before. A telephone conversation between Dave Liebman and Miles Davis, the Liebman 1972 invited to the recording sessions for his album On the Corner, inspired Jussi Rejects Onen example nearly four decades later to his own piece In the Corner, a tour de force of stylistic references. Similar inspiration from the past, serendipity and complementary contrasts can be found here in almost every piece. A variety of unexpected twists make a work that so much dealing with the past, but then still a springboard for something new - after the quartet is now investigated the roots of his music, the gates are wide open future.