Tickets to Five Corners Quintet live at the London's famed Jazz Café in Camden Town.

It may be of no surprise that a band should release a few vinyl singles that filter to key tastemakers to critical acclaim.  That they should receive praise from an ever-increasing underground scene, and that the hype surrounding them escalates beyond a core.  Indeed, that sales of those singles should quickly reach over 12,000, and they find themselves performing on Top of the Pops in their home country.  But in the case of the Helsinki-based postmodern jazz outfit, the Five Corners Quintet, it should. 

For this is 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”. 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 the studio The Five Corners Quintet is a gathering of some of the finest contemporary jazz musicians both from the Finnish and International jazz scene.  On stage they are a real band featuring real musicians: no machines, no samplers, no DJ’s but instead energy, interaction and world class level of musicianship.