Timo Lassy
Timo Lassy (* 1974 in Helsinki ) is a Finnish jazz musician ( tenor and baritone saxophone , flute , composition ). The Sunday Times rated his quintet “one of the hottest bands in Europe”, and the Down Beat himself a “rising star”.
Live and act
Lassy spent his childhood in Vantaa . He started playing the piano at the age of six and received classical piano lessons. As a teenager he switched to the saxophone and played in the school music ensemble. Lassy studied at the Sibelius Academy's jazz department until 2005 (and as an exchange student in Amsterdam).
In 2000 he founded U-Street All Stars , with whom he released the albums Helsinki Sessions (2002) and Bowling (2004). In the student Five Corners Quintet , in which he has worked as a saxophonist since 2003, hard bop and soul jazz were mixed with the electronic music of club culture. He adopted this approach in 2005 in his own quintet. After two singles, he released the album The Soul & Jazz of Timo Lassy in 2007 , which included trumpeters Jukka Eskola and Mikko Mustonen, pianist Georgios Kontrafouris, bassist Antti Lötjönen and drummer Teppo Mäkynen . With this band he released five more successful albums by 2018. In addition to his own quintet, which also worked with José James and Ed Motta , Lassy played in Teddy Rok Seven , Jukka Eskola Quintet , Jimi Tenor , Mikko Innasen Innkvisition and with Nicola Conte .
Web links
- Portrait (WDR3)
- Web presence
- Timo Lassy at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lassy, Timo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Finnish jazz musician (saxophone, flute, composition) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1974 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Helsinki |