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We’re Listening with EMW: Lauri Kadalipp Social Jazz Vincent Teetsov From South to North in Estonia, the music scene on a national level has proven to be an active place for expres sion across genre boundaries. These are the kind of boun daries that nowadays might inhibit full-on recording sessions in another style: if you’re a folk musician, to communicate your identity clearly, you can’t publicly dip into jazz or hip hop. Or so they say. One musician who has sub verted this arrangement is Tõnu Tubli. I distinctly recall hearing his solo drumming during Trad. Attack’s sound check at Tartu College years ago. Sandra and Jalmar were rigorously prepar ing in their green room; scaling through torupill (bagpipe) lines, strumming chords on the twelve-string guitar, between managing the band’s social me dia channels. Meanwhile, the drummer was floating on the opening groove of John Mayer’s “Waiting on the World to Change.” The rhythm, originally played by Steve Jordan, is swung, with a backbeat that’s delayed just enough to move the song forward with a “hands shifting in the air” sense of balance. Not only does Tubli have the time of his life behind the drums, he is noticeably enamoured by the unknown in music. Which leads me to Lauri Kadalipp Social Jazz. In the band, there’s Kirke Karja on Fender Rhodes piano and key boards, Allan Järve on trumpet and flugelhorn, Tõnu Tubli on drums and electronics, and Lauri Kadalipp playing tenor
saxophone. It’s an assemblage of young musicians who reflect the classic jazz legacy, but like the latest movement in jazz music, eschew an overly senti mental handling of that legacy. Take the song “Addiction”, from their video series Live at Põhjala Factory. The bait for listeners is the cool swagger of Järve and Kadalipp’s dual trum pet and saxophone. Then, when the other two musicians come in, the repeating 20 note or so phrase swings its fists like a welterweight boxer. Karja’s keyboard chords swirl moodily on the low end, and there is a draggy funk approach to the drumming. Instead of dancing on the ride cymbal, the hi hat and snare take the lead, with objects added on top for added sound textures. Modern drum mers add bells and shells all over their kits and rivets in their cymbals, to add extra rattle and rumble to their sound. Airy electric piano creates a pause in the intensity before the song reaches its colossal height again. In contrast, their song “23. Mai” feels like a walk on the clouds. The 3/4 time signature is graceful and dreamy. And again – the players love it. They smile and laugh when they hit the sweetest notes, in the most infectious way. You may wonder why this take on jazz is different than what’s come before it. Yes, they work within the framework of a main musical premise, deviating solos, and a return to the main premise. However, they are pre
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venting jazz music from being sealed off for a select few lis teners. The popularity of jazz waned in the 60s. Fusion and smooth jazz had their moments, but there is something exciting happening now. According to Kadalipp, his first compositions were born when he studied at Heino Eller Tartu Music School. He is also a teacher of saxophone and a big band jazz conductor. Even if he is embedded in this scene, though, what’s to stop him from exploring nu-disco, for example? What we are seeing is a desire to move away from boxes and cliques, to a listening ex perience that is unrestricted. Talk to a Millennial or Generation Z music lover or instrument player about their playlists, and they’ll probably talk about Cory Henry and the Funk Apostles, who played a much anticipated show at Tallinn’s Jazzkaar in 2018. You’ll hear the names Snarky
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Puppy, DOMi and JD Beck, Kamasi Washington, Vulfpeck, and Jacob Collier. They all fill different pairs of shoes, but form a collective sound here and now. These artists, and Lauri Kadalipp Social Jazz with them, are presenting what you might call “Omnivorous Jazz.” Young listeners don’t isolate themselves in one scene. They mingle. It’s social music. On top of this, these bands are part of a global musical movement of fresh faces who know they can use virtuosity to change the opinion that “they just don’t make good music anymore.” Once this technical ability is understood, enjoyment is achieved on a deeper level. Keen listeners can play Lauri Kadalipp Social Jazz’s 2018 album “Feels Just Right” online (shorturl.at/jqGMW). We hope it makes the cut for your play lists.
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OTTAWA. On May 18, the world marked the Day of Remembrance of the Geno cide of the Crimean Tatar People. The Ukrainian Cana dian Congress (UCC) joins the Crimean Tatar People in mourning, grief and solemn commemoration of the memory of the victims of the Sürgünlik. In 1944, the totalitarian Soviet communist regime exiled the Crimean Tatar People, the indigenous people of Crimea, from their homeland. Hundreds of thousands of men, women and children were forcibly and violently deported to Siberia and Central Asian regions of the USSR. Nearly half lost their lives during the first year of exile. The Soviet regime prohibited the Crimean Tatar People from returning to Crimea for almost 50 years. May the Memory of the Victims be Eternal. Вічная Пам’ять. In November 2015, Ukraine’s Parliament recog nized this crime as an act of Genocide against the Crimean Tatar People and established May 18 as the Day of Remembrance of the Genocide of the Crimean Tatar People. The Ukrainian Canadian Con gress calls on Canada to recog nize the deportation of the Crimean Tatar People as an act of Genocide. In 2014, Russia invaded and occupied Crimea. Today, the Crimean Tatar People, who are bravely resisting the Russian occupation of their ancestral homeland, are once again subject to systemic repressions, arbitrary arrests and attacks on their inalienable rights and free doms by the Russian occupa tion regime. The Representative Assembly of the Crimean Tatar People, the Mejlis, has been illegally banned. The Crimean Tatar People are once again the victims of a cruel and ruthless occupation regime. The UCC stands in solidarity with the Crimean Tatar People and calls on the international community to increase pressure on Russia to end its illegal occupation of Crimea.
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