Pasi Virtanen

I do Jazzpossu jazz blog, jazz vinyl enthusiast, record store enjoyer, UL Benchmarks 3DMark/Procyon/etc, strategy games etc.

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@jacobjbg For a while this was the only Jarrett album I liked, but haven't really listened to it in years.

Why?
Can't say. It's somehow very accessible music while still having an alluring spirit of improvised music.

Mingus' Myself When I Am Real is similar for me.

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@fritzpape Yay!

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Today, June 4th, is the actial 100th anniversary of Andania docking in Helsinki and the event is celebrated tonight at the Konepaja Biergarten summer Thursday evening jam session.

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This year the Finnish Jazz Federation celebrates 100 years of jazz in Finland. The arbitrary seeming moment has been defined by the ship Andania bringing over 600 Finnish-Americans to visit their ancestral homeland, including a band who played the first authentic jazz gigs here.

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Today's haul: Masaru Imada Trio + 2: Green Caterpillar, Outer Worlds Jazz Ensemble The Kármán Line from @ATARecords

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@LewistheLight1 @funkentechno Pretty much every other Scaruffi top list is more controversial than this.

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@ash_twtz Just look at market shares on Steam. Many games support Mac's but Mac users are a small fraction of the market.

And if you want to do games that require a discrete GPU on Windows, you're cutting down the share futther.

So, in gaming Mac users are not "premium", but "low ROI"

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@Kulambq Much less controversial than Scaruffi's other rankings.

A highly memey character.

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You know what Tuesday in #Helsinki means...
It's time for the best all-year jazz jam session at Sörkan Ruusu.

Today starts with a tribute to Sonny Rollins with Riitta Paakki joining today's house band - Max Zenger, Juuso Rinta and Roope Kantonen, collectively Roope Kantonen 3.

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Tonight, @toriamos in #Helsinki

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@stavrossky38 One of the greatest albums of all time

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@funkentechno I stopped buying every new Foat LP since there are so many, but I'll still check every new release out

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Today's record store haul, Mint Jams, 1980s live Espoo Big Band, new Alan Braufman and Kiri Ra! Out today on @wejazzhelsinki

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@LewistheLight1 Talking about holding your instrument...

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@LewistheLight1 @ShortSeller65 I think many of the 80s Wynton albums are good, particularly Black Codes (From the Underground), but also Think of One in addition to J Mood.

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@LewistheLight1 Even Duke knew that there was a new age coming

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@fritzpape The definitive electric Ornette album, I think.
It's a little disappointing to me that all the derivative work got ignored to the point where this didn't end up as an enduring era generating classic.

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@LewistheLight1 @jetskitosway2 It's not exactly representative, though. Looks like some GRP records fusion jam (although the sound is very 80s for what it is, I suppose)

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Manala After Work Jazz special Vappu session with guitarist Olli Soikkeli visiting from New York.

Three day weekend and vacation week next week! 🎉

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@MaraniA007 @SpotifyStatus Here in Finland looks like it plays tracks for 10 seconds and then silence on desktop app, Android app gives a message suggesting listening to something you have downloaded while it's waiting for Internet