WE JAZZ NEWS
Eurojazzist podcast interviews Matti Nives
Eurojazzist, a new music media by Serbian journalist Nikola Marković, met up with We Jazz founder and artistic director Matti Nives at Bremen's Jazzahead in late April. You can now listen to the full conversation on the Eurojazzist website. Eurojazzist is an...
Studio session notes: Alan Braufman recording his new album Anthem For Piece
BY ANDY BETA A new Alan Braufman album is being recorded, and an invite arrives for the event to witness it being rendered in the moment. It reads: “As with all of Alan’s recordings, this will be a live performance—capturing the energy and spontaneity that have...
We Jazz Magazine pop up with Naïssam Jalal at Tropicall Records in Brussels this Saturday
For those in Brussels, there's a pop up around the latest issue of We Jazz Magazine (issue 18 / Spring 2026) at Tropicall Records store this Saturday, 9th May. Naïssam Jalal performs a short solo flute set to celebrate the article by Florent Servia in the current...
MAGAZINE
Eurojazzist podcast interviews Matti Nives
Eurojazzist, a new music media by Serbian journalist Nikola Marković, met up with We Jazz founder and artistic director Matti Nives at Bremen's Jazzahead in late April. You can now listen to the full conversation on the Eurojazzist website. Eurojazzist is an...
Studio session notes: Alan Braufman recording his new album Anthem For Piece
BY ANDY BETA A new Alan Braufman album is being recorded, and an invite arrives for the event to witness it being rendered in the moment. It reads: “As with all of Alan’s recordings, this will be a live performance—capturing the energy and spontaneity that have...
We Jazz Magazine pop up with Naïssam Jalal at Tropicall Records in Brussels this Saturday
For those in Brussels, there's a pop up around the latest issue of We Jazz Magazine (issue 18 / Spring 2026) at Tropicall Records store this Saturday, 9th May. Naïssam Jalal performs a short solo flute set to celebrate the article by Florent Servia in the current...
ARTISTS
Goran Kajfeš Subtropic Arkestra
Agent / Finland:Jaakko Hietakangas / jaakko@wejazz.fi / +358 50 386 9980 Agent / world outside of FI: Teemu Markkula / teemu@wejazz.fi / +358 40 763 371 “A fresh breeze of disruption and seduction.” This is how trumpet player Goran Kajfeš was described by...
Goran Kajfeš Tropiques
Agent / Finland:Jaakko Hietakangas / jaakko@wejazz.fi / +358 50 386 9980 Agent / world outside of FI:Teemu Markkula / teemu@wejazz.fi / +358 40 763 3710 The Goran Kajfeš Tropiques quartet consists of Goran Kajfeš (trumpet, synthesizer), Alexander Zethson (piano,...
Islaja
Agent: Teemu Markkula / teemu@wejazz.fi / +358 40 763 3710 Islaja is Merja Kokkonen: a composer, performer and recording artist who after living and working in Berlin for over a decade, is now in 2024 permanently back in Helsinki Finland. Since her debut in...
Kannaste4
Agent: Jaakko Hietakangas / jaakko@wejazz.fi / +358 50 386 9980 Helsinki tenor saxophonist Jussi Kannaste's debut album as a band leader has been a long time coming. A top musician in the local scene revered by his contemporaries and sought after as a band member, ...
Kaukolampi
Agents:Teemu Markkula / teemu@wejazz.fi / +358 40 763 3710Antti Hietala / antti@wejazz.fi / +358 44 560 8969 What do you get when you fuse the headiness of kosmische with the visceral impact of techno, the intensity of metal with the churning power of dark ambient?...
Kiri Ra!
Agent: Jaakko Hietakangas / jaakko@wejazz.fi / +358 50 386 9980 Lau Nau (Laura Naukkarinen), Linda Fredriksson and Matti Bye form Kiri Ra!, a trio that creates their sound slowly, in a process of improvisation and discovery. Filtered through the musicians’...
Olli Ahvenlahti New Quintet
Agent: Jaakko Hietakangas / jaakko@wejazz.fi / +358 50 386 9980 Olli Ahvenlahti is a Finnish jazz legend and a pianist-composer. Championed by the likes of Gilles Peterson and Kenny Dope, Ahvenlahti is a master of hard-grooving jazz funk. Here, he continues the...
On Fillmore
Agent / Finland:Jaakko Hietakangas / jaakko@wejazz.fi / +358 50 386 9980 Agent / world outside of FI:Teemu Markkula / teemu@wejazz.fi / +358 40 763 3710On Fillmore is the long-running duo (1999 - present) of percussionist Glenn Kotche (Wilco) and bassist Darin Gray....
Paal Nilssen-Love & Raoul Björkenheim
Agent / Finland:Jaakko Hietakangas / jaakko@wejazz.fi / +358 50 386 9980 Agent / world outside of FI:Teemu Markkula / teemu@wejazz.fi / +358 40 763 371 Drummer Paal Nilssen-Love and guitarist Raoul Björkenheim are a powerhouse duo of creative music. While both...
The Stance Brothers
Agents:Teemu Markkula / teemu@wejazz.fi / +358 40 763 3710Antti Hietala / antti@wejazz.fi / +358 44 560 8969 The basic core of The Stance Brothers is to be solo studio vehicle for Teppo Mäkynen to experiment across a varied instrumentation and musical ideas. Since the...