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SWING DOCTORS

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Marko Aho & Swing Doctors is a Tampere based group dedicated to playing swing music in the style of Benny Goodman and Nat King Cole. Swing Doctors have existed for a good two decades, on and off, with various personnel, and not always playing strictly swing music. For the present, we have a great team of Jarmo Lundell on drums, Janne Reinola on bass, Matti Koskinen on vibraphone Valtteri Pärssinen, Mari Martikainen and Olli Lampo on woodwinds, Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen on trombone and yours truly on guitar and vocals. After playing more modern stuff for a while, I felt like coming back to those Charlie Christan licks and Freddie Green style comping I studied closely in the late 1990's. I always felt that it is nice how people can relate swing music, even those who are not so keen on listening to jazz otherwise. Also quite a new thing is that young people have started to dance swing in Finland as elsewhere, which is a great thing. Swing dancers make a great audience! 
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 Something to listen to

Links to Soundcloud files provided below.

​'Jumpin' at the Woodside' through 'They Can't Take That Away From Me' personnel:
Marko Aho, guitar & vocals
​Matti Koskinen, vibraphone
Jarmo Lundell, drums
Kyösti Aalto, double bass
Markus Mantere, piano
Valtteri Pärssinen, baritone saxophone 
Olli Lampo, alto saxophone
Reijo Kaikkonen, tenor saxophone
Jumpin' at the Woodside
The Way You Look Tonight
Route 66
Satin Doll
Paper Moon
They Can't Take That Away From Me
'Flying Home' through 'Soft Winds' personnel:
Marko Aho, guitar
Markus Mantere, piano
Jarmo Lundell, drums
Kyösti Aalto, double bass
Valtteri Pärssinen, clarinet

Flying Home
Seven Come Eleven
A Smooth One
Cotton Tail
Soft Winds

Video

We don't seem to have much luck with videos, they always seem to end up shaky or the sound is missing. Here's a couple though:

Pictures

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A couple of nice shots from Pub Salhojankatu. Pictures Nina Dannert
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Stage map

You can load our stage-map here for the sextet. For the oktet, add two horn players somewhere there...
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