Jouni's Pipe Dream, by Jouni Järvelä, Lenny Pickett, Pepa Päivinen & Jonatan Sarikoski

Jouni's Pipe Dream

by Jouni Järvelä, Lenny Pickett, Pepa Päivinen & Jonatan Sarikoski

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1.	Music for Three Saxophones & Percussion I 04:41	buy track
2.	Music for Three Saxophones & Percussion II 03:48	buy track
3.	Music for Three Saxophones & Percussion III 04:15	buy track
4.	Clarinet Trio IV 06:03	buy track
5.	80's Pop for L.P. 05:10	buy track
6.	Clarinet Trio V 03:42	buy track
7.	Jonatan Sarikoski 03:34	buy track
8.	Music for Three Saxophones & Percussion VI 00:56	buy track
9.	Clarinet Trio VI 04:05	buy track
10.	Music for Three Saxophones & Percussion IV 03:49	buy track
11.	Music for Three Saxophones & Percussion V 05:37	buy track
12.	kathykathy 02:34	buy track
13.	Seven and a Half 05:29	buy track

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What do you call music for a quartet of three reed players with a drummer, music with not just a backbeat—and complex funk rhythms—but swagger, contrapuntal lines from warm, soulful saxophones played with a hip strut? According to saxophonist and composer Lenny Pickett, “It's chamber music. Chamber music with mixed winds and percussion.”

That’s the music on the new album of new music by Pickett and Finnish saxophonist and composer Jouni Järvelä Jouni’s Pipe Dream, released by Järvelä on the new Jouni’s Pipe Dreams label . Pickett and Järvelä composed the music (ten and three pieces, respectively), but the album as a whole is a collaboration of the whole ensemble, completed by reed player Pepa Päivinen and drummer Jonatan Sarikoski. The four have been frequent musical partners over the past fifteen years, which comes through in the camaraderie and mastery of the playing.

Jouni’s Pipe Dream is also something of a rarity; a full album from Pickett, the former star tenor sax soloist in Tower of Power, and long-time music director of the Saturday Night Live band. Joining a small, potent discography that includes Lenny Pickett with the Borneo Horns (Hannibal, 1987), The Prescription with UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra (Random Act Records, 2014), and Bad Dreams (Lenny Pickett Music, 2017), the album is a chance to hear this phenomenal, powerful player close up, every inflection and nuance of timbre full of meaning, excitement, and satisfaction.

Talking about the album, both Pickett and Järvelä emphasize the chamber music idea. Pickett points out that, “it's similar to quartet writing in that the cueing is all internal. There's no conducting, we cue each other at different points along the way for stylistic variation, we listen to each other for articulation and for dynamics. And in just the same way that in a string quartet cueing is going on.” Järvelä chimes in on how the multiple voices have a near-baroque structure, adding that “bits and pieces from here and there overlap.” Talking about the interplay of the rhythms and contrapuntal lines, he adds, “It is quite amazing how big, like a full orchestra, a saxophone trio can sound.”

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released October 20, 2023

Jouni Järvelä: alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, B-flat clarinet
Lenny Pickett: tenor saxophone, E-flat clarinet, alto clarinet
Pepa Päivinen: baritone saxophone, bass clarinet
Jonatan Sarikoski: drums, percussion

1-4, 6, 8-12 composed by Lenny Pickett (Lenny Pickett Music / ASCAP)
5, 7, 13 composed by Jouni Järvelä (Teosto)

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