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Kalevi Louhivuori was born in 1984 into a small town called Orivesi.
When he was one year old his family moved to a bigger city, Jyväskylä.
He grew up in a musical family. Everyone of his family is a professional musician (and most of his cousins too :).
Kalevi..s first instrument at the age of 9 was the drumset. Few years
later his mother gave him a trumpet. First years he didn..t really
practise but because of his attraction to a beautiful girl on his
class who played cornet, he decided to practise more to get her
attention :)
His elder brother Olavi is one of the most important reasons for
Kalevi to start listening to Jazz. When he was 15 years old, Olavi
already had a jazz trio ( called Joona Toivanen trio) which had gigs
all over Finland. He played a few years every Tuesday and Saturday in the
Jazz Bar with the trio in a jam session. This experience gave him new perspectives
on how to play music.
These days Kalevi has his own band called SUN-trio, which won the
Young Nordic Jazz Competition held in Reykjavik, Iceland, in October 2006. He also got the soloist prize in the competition. CAM JAZZ RECORDS released his first album on 19 January 2009. His newest project "Yona & Liikkuvat Pilvet" recorded an album in May 2009, and by checking www.myspace.com/yonalou you..ll hear his varieties in music. It will be released on 13th of January.
Kalevi has been touring and giving workshops around the world, for example in Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, Africa, United States and all around Europe.
He is also a composer, arranger, songwriter, educator and a producer. He..s composing music for various ensembles including big bands. He..s not only creating new elements to jazz but also to reggae, afrobeat, hip-hop, soul, ska, acoustic music etc.
He has performed with many famous musicians such as Bob Mintzer, Sean Jones, Terell Stafford, Bryan Lynch, Jukka Perko, Teppo Mäkynen, Ingrid Jensen, Dave Liedman, Hugh Masekela, Randy Brecker, just to name a few. You can hear his sound in various bands such as Sun trio, Yona & Liikkuvat Pilvet, Myöhä-quartet, Pentagon, Space Machine, KingPin, Ricky Tick Big Band etc.
KALEVI GOT THE 2ND PRICE AT THE 2009 CARMINE CARUSO INTERNATIONAL JAZZ TRUMPET SOLO COMPETITION . THE JURY INCLUDED THREE JAZZ STARS:
TERELL STAFFORD
BRYAN LYNCH
SEAN JONES
COMPETITION WAS HELD IN COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA ON 10TH OF 10TH 2009.
Young Nordic Jazz Comets Competition Jury:
"AN OUTSTANDING PERSONAL SOLOIST, ADDING NEW DIMENSIONS TO HIS INSTRUMENT BOTH TECHNICALLY AND MUSICWISE."
YNJC Jury about Kalevi..s SUN-trio:
" A COMPLETE GROUP WITH SKILFULL AND DYNAMIC PLAYING, CREATING A MUSICAL SPACE OF THEIR OWN, - IN THE GREAT LYRICAL NORDIC TRADITION."
An article on ALL ABOUT JAZZ by Anthony TS Shaw:
“THE SUN TRIO MIGHT BE SAID TO APPROXIMATE THE STYLE OF BRITISH ARTIST DAVID HOCKNEY"
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article_print.php?id=32310
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). I really look forward to listen to more of that. Hopefully you'll play some concerts a bit closer to Denmark soon - its been a long time after all!
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