The Five Corners Quintet

About the Record
The two innovators behind Five Corners Quintet are composer, producer and arranger Tuomas Kallio and the band’s benevolent svengali and record label manager Antti Eerikäinen. In musical terms the goal of the FCQ is to set an example of how, with contemporary production, stylish jazz tailored for the dance-floor can fruitfully meet the musical craftsmanship of the past. “I guess most people feel that the lush sound of classic jazz vinyl creates an exceptional mood that records of today fail to reach” says Tuomas, “that is exactly the atmosphere I was after for the project”.

‘Chasin’ The Jazz Gone By’ is the debut album from the Five Corners Quintet -- pure unadulterated jazz. Not housey nu-jazz, or jazz fused with hip-hop or rock, but jazz in the classic modernist spirit. A jazz that resonates with early sixties straight-ahead and Latin. As one critic claimed of the first single, “‘Trading Eights’ snaps like a classic bit of Blue Note soul jazz… a soaring little groover with great rhythms that hooks the tune up nicely for the dancefloor. Real jazz played by a hip little quintet”.

Tracks
01. Blue Cycles featuring Okou
02. Trading Eights
03. Interlope
04. This Could Be the Start of Something featuring Mark Murphy
05. Straight Up
06. Three Corners
07. Case Study featuring Okou
08. Lighthouse
09. Before We Say Goodbye featuring Mark Murphy
10. Unsquare Bossa
11. The Devil Kicks
12. Jamming (with Mr. Hoagland) featuring Mark Murphy
13. Taxi Driver (Bonus Track)

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