Picture Nina Dannert.
Swing Doctors lead by Marko Aho is a Tampere, Finland based group dedicated to playing swing music in the style of Benny Goodman, Count Basie 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, 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!
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' 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
'Flying Home' through 'Soft Winds' personnel:
Marko Aho, guitar
Markus Mantere, piano
Jarmo Lundell, drums
Kyösti Aalto, double bass
Valtteri Pärssinen, clarinet
Marko Aho, guitar
Markus Mantere, piano
Jarmo Lundell, drums
Kyösti Aalto, double bass
Valtteri Pärssinen, clarinet
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
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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