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Eero Koivistoinen (born 13 January 1946) is a Finnish jazz musician and saxophone player, who started his career in the mid-1960s. Koivistoinen has worked as a musician, composer, arranger, conductor, producer and educator. He first heard jazz from the records his sailor brother had brought in from his travels. As youngster Koivistoinen studied classical violin, saxophone and also composition at the Sibelius Academy, later on jazz at Berklee Music School in Boston. His first line-up featured the drummer Edward Vesala and bassist Pekka Sarmanto. Eero Koivistoinen was also a member of the seminal Finnish rock band Blues Section in the years 1967 and 1968. In 1968 he released his first solo album, a "literary record" called Valtakunta which featured songs composed to the texts of such poets as Pentti Saarikoski, Jarkko Laine, Tuomas Anhava and Hannu Mäkelä; interpreted by the vocalists Vesa-Matti Loiri, Eero Raittinen and Seija Simola. Eero Koivistoinen's later solo albums such as Wahoo (1972) enjoy a considerable international reputation. His hip hop-influenced 2006 album X-Ray features such people as the vocalists Charles Salter and Bina Nkwazi, DJ LBJ (a.k.a. Jonas Verwijnen) and the rap artist Redrama (a.k.a. Lasse Mellberg).

Eero Koivistoinen was one of the founder members of the UMO Jazz Orchestra where he played 1975-1990 and worked as its artistic director from 1996 to 1998. He has also composed music for radio and theatre. Koivistoinen has received the Yrjö prize of Finnish Jazz Association in 1967, his quartet won the band competition of Montreux in 1969, and Koivistoinen also won in 1981 the prize for the best arrangement with his piece Ultima Thule at the Nordring competition of European broadcasting companies, held in Jersey.

Discography

Blues Section (1967)
Valtakunta (1968)
Odysseus (1969)
For Children (1970)
Original Sin (1971)
Muusa ja Ruusa (1971)
Wahoo! (1972)
3rd Version (1973)
Front Is Breaking (1976)
Labyrinth (1977)
Live at Belmont Jazz Club (1977)
Ultima Thule (1983)
Picture in Three Colours (1983)
Sea Suite (1983)
UMO Plays the Music of Koivistoinen and Linkola (1985)
Kallista on ja halvalla menee (1988)
Pahan Kukkia (1990)
Altered Things (1992)
Dialog (1995)
Electrifying Miles (1997)
UMO Jazz Orchestra (1997)
Senegalese Drums (1998)
Helium (1999)
Some Time Ago (1999)
Zone (1999)
Mozambique Relief (2000)
UTU (2001)
Venancio Mbande Orchestra (2001)
Timbila (2002)
Suomalainen (2003)
Galaxy (2003)
The Five Corners Quintet (2005)
X-Ray (2006)

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