Somebody
could say he is an "outlaw". He is a well-studied musician who started
on the piano and violin, and added the saxophone at the age of 15.
Jorma moved to Turku in 1978 and immediately got involved in virtually
everything that was happening musically.
He played bebop in jam sessions, worked in duo with the cellist Tuomas
Airola, accompanied the poems of Markku Into, and fronted
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way went into more free structures and areas... From 1984 on Jorma
Tapio started to take part regularly in the rehearsals of various
Edward Vesala workshops in Helsinki. When the group Sound
and Fury materialized, Tapio became self-evidently one of the
founding fathers and remained with Vesala though all his transformations.
This septet was one of the greatest "small" big bands in the world.
Vesala provided his band with a unique musical material and spirit,
deeply rooted in the Finnish nature and culture, from which the 7
musicians created a world of its own: the sound and the fury of a
real group.
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made four praised albums to ECM before untimely death of the
great master, Vesala in 1999. When playing the music of Edward Vesala
Jorma has attended numerous European festivals and has had opportunity
to perform with: Terje Rypdal, Tomasz Stanko, James Newton, Conrad
Bauer, Palle Danielsson, Dino Saluzzi, John Surman, Josef Jarman,
Bobby Bradford, Andrew Cyrille, Philip Decepher, Daunik Lazro, Jean
Bolgato, Christian Rollet, etc.. With this band he has played
music for theater, film soundtracks and radio recordings, and tours
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Jorma
Tapio has been involved in the big band Hugrymen, and the Hugry
Tribal marching band, playing a music ranging from Muhal Richard
Abrams to spirituals and Spanish civil war songs, recording with Tuomari
Nurmio. For some time Jorma co-led a quartet with the trombonist
Jari Hongisto, with Sampo Lassila on bass and Lefty Lehto
on drums.
He has been a member of the first Krakatau, has played in the
Trio Open Mind with Pepa Päivinen and Heikki Wikla. he has
performed in tango and traditional Finnish dance music bands. he has
played rock with the Sielun Veljet and the Woodoo Tango
of Jukka Orma.
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Jorma
has developed collaborations with theater and dance artists, as lately
with the company Takomo and with the Butoh artist Masaki Iwana
from Japan.
He had a band called "Rolling Thunder" with Norwegian percussionist
Terje Isungset, a bass player Uffe Krokfors and a saxophonist Tane
Kannisto.
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the autumn '98, he founded a music-club in Helsinki called TSE-TSE
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In
spring 2000, Jorma has received "best programme of the Year"-award
with his music compositions and plays for "Kuningas K. (The King
K.)" (prod.1999) from Finnish National Broadcasting Company, Yleisradio.
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Recently
he has formed a workshop-like trio, Mukti, with Tero Siitonen -bass
and Janne Tuomi -drums which focuses mainly on school concerts for
the kids to experience something different. Collaborations are also
in the inprovised music field, for example, with Daunik Lazro,
Pepa Päivinen.
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Jorma
Tapio has now two bands that are internationally remarkable and
unique. They are the prize what he got from his long journey in
music. The one is a quartet, Rolling Thunder, with Iro Haarla
-piano, harp, Uffe Krokfors -bass, and Tom Nekljudow -drums, and
another is a trio with Terje Isungset (nor) -percussions and Stepanida
Borissova (Siberia)
- vocals.
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