Antti Sarpila

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Antti Sarpila (2012)

Antti Juhani Sarpila (born June 11, 1964 in Helsinki ) is a Finnish musician ( clarinet , tenor saxophone ) of traditional jazz .

Live and act

Sarpila received his first instrumental lessons from his father, the amateur musician Kari Sarpila, who also played the tenor saxophone and clarinet and who founded Pori Jazz . In the 1980s he repeatedly took lessons from Bob Wilber when he was in Finland; he initially oriented his game to Benny Goodman . He formed his own swing band in 1982. In 1988 he performed as part of the show Tribute to Benny Goodman at Carnegie Hall ; he made several tours across the United States. He also played with musicians like Doc Cheatham , Wild Bill Davison , Vic Dickenson , Panama Francis , Frank Wess , Milt Hinton , Peanuts Hucko , Thad Jones , Zoot Sims , Dick Wellstood , Trummy Young , Buddy DeFranco and Wynton Marsalis . He was also able to perform with the Count Basie Orchestra , the Metropole Orkest , the Wolverines Jazz Band of Bern , the Dutch Swing College Band and the Swedish Swing Society around Lars Erstrand . He has released numerous albums on his own label.

Since 2006 he toured Germany with Engelbert Wrobel and Frank Roberscheuten as Three Tenors of Swing . In a quartet with Lars Erstrand , Mark Shane and Björn Sjödin , he recorded the albums A Sailboat in the Moonlight (2004) and We've Got a Heartful of Music (2004). Together with the Stokstad / Jensen Trad.Band he presented himself at the 2006 Oslo Jazz Festival .

In 1997 he received the Yrjö Prize of the Finnish Jazz Federation.

Discography (selection)

  • Valto Laitinen & Antti Sarpila Autumn in Paris and Somewhere Else (Bang Trax 1988)
  • Stealin 'Apples (Andania, 1989, with Ulf Johansson , Jan Adefelt, Martin Lövgren)
  • Pori Big Band Plays Antti Sarpila (Antti Sarpila Oy, 1991)
  • Tribute to Benny Goodman (Antti Sarpila Oy, 1992, with the UMO Jazz Orchestra )
  • Father & Son and Wholly Swing (Antti Sarpila, 1993)
  • Allan Vaché & Antti Sarpila Swing Is Here ( Nagel-Heyer Records 1995)
  • Antti Sarpila Meets Markku Johansson (Antti Sarpila Oy, 1996)
  • 15th Anniversary (Antti Sarpila Oy, 1997)
  • The New York Allstars Play Lionel Hampton Hey Ba-Ba-Re-Bop !! (Nagel-Heyer Records, 1998, with Randy Sandke , Roy Williams , Lars Erstrand , James Chirillo , Thilo Wagner , Dave Green , Ed Metz Jr.)
  • The Swinging Beginning (Antti Sarpila Oy, 1999)
  • The Best of Antti Sarpila (Antti Sarpila Oy, 1999)
  • Big Benny (Antti Sarpila Oy, 1999)
  • 20th Anniversary (Antti Sarpila Oy, 2002)
  • Antti Sarpila & Johanna Iivanainen: She's Funny That Way (Antti Sarpila Oy, 2002)
  • Swinging Christmas (Antti Sarpila Oy, 2002)
  • Portraits of Jazz by Antti Sarpila (Antti Sarpila Oy, 2003)
  • Antti Sarpila & Eino Grön: Swinging 'n' Singin ' (Antti Sarpila Oy, 2004)
  • Let's Swing - Antti Sarpila Plays a Tribute to the Benny Goodman Small Groups (Antti Sarpila Oy, 2005)
  • Antti Sarpila & Seppo Hovi: Antti Sarpila Swing Band Featuring the Swinging Accordion of Seppo Hovi (Antti Sarpila Oy, 2005)
  • The Best of Antti Sarpila Vol. II (Antti Sarpila Oy, 2006)
  • Gospel & Spirituals (Antti Sarpila Oy, 2006)
  • 25th Anniversary (Antti Sarpila Oy, 2007)
  • Swinging the Classics (Antti Sarpila Oy, 2008)
  • Three Tenors of Swing On Stage (Click Records 2013, with Frank Roberscheuten, Engelbert Wrobel, Chris Hopkins , Rolf Marx , Ingmar Heller , Oliver Mewes )

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ International Who's Who in Popular Music. Routledge, London 2002, p. 450. ISBN 978-1-85743-161-2
  2. ↑ Yrjö winner at Discogs
personal data
SURNAME Sarpila, Antti
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sarpila, Antti Juhani (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish jazz musician (tenor saxophone, clarinet)
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Helsinki