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Juhani Aaltosen juhlakonsertti at Savoy-teatteri

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Savoy-teatteri
Kasarmikatu 46-48
Helsinki
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When

Tue, November 18, 2025
17:00

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The concert celebrates not only the nine decades of the Grand Old Man of Finnish modern jazz, Juhani Aaltonen (b. 12 December 1935), but also his nearly 70-year-long and still ongoing career as a musician, composer, and bandleader.
Aaltonen’s journey as a wind instrumentalist began in the 1950s while he was working in Sweden as a farmhand on the same farm where he had been sent as a war child a little over a decade earlier. Aaltonen became interested in jazz after attending a few concerts in the local People’s Park and bought his first instrument, an old clarinet, from a local junk shop. Since the clarinet was badly cracked, he traded it for a tenor saxophone, which he learned to play with the help of a small instruction booklet that came with its case. After returning home to Inkeroinen, Aaltonen made music with other local youngsters, but he soon gave up the idea of pursuing a career as a musician, sold his saxophone, and once again left in the late 1950s for Sweden—this time to work in a pulp mill, escaping Finland’s difficult economic situation....

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