Product Description

In 2005, The Five Corners Quintet from Helsinki took the international dancefloor jazz scene by storm. Milan Records released their debut release Chasin The Jazz Gone By in North America to rave reviews.

Three years and more than 100 international concerts later, The Five Corners Quintet are set to return with their sophomore effort, Hot Corner to be released in the U.S. on February 10, 2009.

Tuomas Kallio is once again at the helm with their notorious and impressive live band consisting of Teppo Makynen (drums/bandleader), Timo Lassy (sax), Jukka Eskola (trumpet), Mikael Jakobsson (piano), and Antti Lotjonen (double bass).

Hot Corner features Mark Murphy s vocals on two songs, including the melodic Kerouak Days in Montana . This record revitalizes the coolness of jazz and the band reviving dancefloor jazz around the world for a whole new generation.

Track Listing

1. Hot Rod
2. Kerouac Days in Montana - Five Corners Quintet, , Mark Murphy
3. Skinny Dipping
4. Rich in Time - Five Corners Quintet, Okou
5. Midnight in Trieste
6. Come and Get Me - Five Corners Quintet, , Mark Murphy
7. Interlope II
8. Waltz Up
9. Easy Diggin'
10. Shake It
11. Habib's Habit

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #154862 in Music
• Released on: 2009-02-10
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .19 pounds

Customer Reviews

Swing tempos, Fifties-meets-Sixties, retro style. Brilliant !
After their wonderful first album (2005s "Chasin The Jazz Gone By"), these finnish jazzcats return to the scene with an even better one.
You can hear that over the last three years they have been playing an awful lot! The fantastic horns, the tight rhythms, the deep grooves...everything is still in place.
Not every Scandinavian band does brooding electronica or grunge-metal jazz-rock. Like Italy's Nicola Conte, Finnish arranger-composer-DJ Tuomas Kallio has handpicked a core quintet for the task (with trumpeter Jukka Eskola particularly suitable) and selects his guests (vibist Arttu Takalo, female singer Okou) with similar care.
On "Hot Corner',it's just that everything sounds so much tighter! Musicians at the top of their craft, doing what they love best. Can it get any better?
By happy coincidence, the legendary hipster Mark Murphy was also in the Helsinki studios, and his vocals enhance several tracks.
Vocal support comes also from Okou (also on the first album, as well as the Teddy Rok album).
"Most attempts to nudge jazz onto the modern dancefloor have co-opted samples, remixes and digital trickery to do so. This Finnish outfit have taken the opposite, organic route. Drawing on the palette of jazz's golden age, they blend hard bop and swing into something funky but refined. This outing features swaying string arrangements, insidious tunes and Mark Murphy spouting hepcat poetry about his "Kerouac Days". It's an easy, enticing listen that looks back to find the future".- Neil Spencer
Album Track Listing:
1. Hot Rod
2. Kerouac Days in Montana - (featuring Mark Murphy)
3. Skinny Dipping
4. Rich in Time - (featuring Okou)
5. Midnight in Trieste
6. Come and Get Me - (featuring Mark Murphy)
7. Interlope II
8. Waltz Up
9. Easy Diggin
10. Shake It
11. Habib's Habit
Love Is What Stays
Chasin' the Jazz Gone By
Of All the Things
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