Verneri Pohjola: Aurora – review

(ACT)Trumpeter and composer Verneri Pohjola has been a star in his native Finland since the early noughties, and this affecting and atmospheric big-band session was released there two years ago and subsequently adopted by German label ACT. Pohjola is a Miles Davis fan, and Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez is included here – not in the Davis and Gil Evans Sketches of Spain version, but as an equally hypnotic trumpet and bass duet. The whole remarkable venture combines memorable original themes w...

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