Johanna Iivananen ja Marian Petrescu

An Evening with Ella Fitzgerald and Oscar Peterson - performed by Johanna Iivanainen and Marian Petrescu Trio. That was the main course for this evening. Concert of older jazz wonderfully and extremely skilfully performed in Suolahtisali. Marian Petrescu is possibly the fastest jazz pianist living in Finnland. And today he played sometimes fiercely, sometimes softly. Very fine and high musicianship. Johanna Iivanainen is a very talented singer. I heard her last spring before today. Now she was even better. Maybe it was because of the musicians - Marian Petrescu, his fantastic bass playing brother Mihai Petrescu and her guitar playing husband Mikko Iivanainen.

During the 1990-ies I had the privilege and honour to play in the same band with Petrescu brothers. We did have some great time, some good gigs.

Here's an example of Marian Petrescu performing.

Juha H.