Jimi Tenor - Anybody Like This Guy?

[JSngry]

Kinda hesitant to put this up, because his music is not from the gut "jazz" (or "from the gut anything", really), and last time I looked (about a year ago), his YouTube clips all focused on his earlier, hardcore "dance" stuff, but I swear to god, he keeps making music that is interesting, just because it's....interesting. It's music that on the surface does not really "present" as being particularly involved, but try taking it apart into any one thing, and you can't. Equal parts (at any given time) Fela, Gary McFarland, B-52s, Austin Powers, Ra, Archie Shepp, pretty much anything. And he keeps doing it, keeps putting out records that keep doing this very subtle, very weird, very non-confrontationally quirky and quietly detailed music.

Limited appeal, no doubt, but I'm just wondering, anybody else here pay attention to this guy these days?

Here's the latest:

[rostasi]

been listening to that one recently.
there are some fun YouTube vids out there as well.

[JSngry]

He's one of those stealth guys for me, somebody who I keep thinking that one, two, maybe 3-4 times through a record and that'll do me, but it's like healthy candy, I come for the taste and then stay for the benefit.

Now sure, "healthy candy", is that really a thing? Well, maybe? Why not?

[jlhoots]

Never heard of him. 

[rostasi]

Tenor player from Finland, but not what you may expect.

Good place to go...

but then he's gone here too:

then you have this with him and Uri Caine, Toots Thielemans, & Ernst Reijseger among others:

and with the great Tony Allen:

Edited November 10, 2016 by rostasi

[JSngry]

Tenor player, composer, conceptualist, perhaps very much the "artist", but also a player who just when you think he can't really "play" goes ahead and really DOES play.

I like music where, among other things, choices get made, and this guy is pretty much all choices.

[JSngry]