Kalle Kalima
Kalle Kalima is a Finnish jazz guitarist and improvisational musician.
Biography
Kalima got piano lessons as a child for five years before switching to the guitar at age 11. He studied at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki with Raoul Björkenheim and at the Hochschule für [Musik "Hanns Eisler"] in Berlin with John Schröder. He then worked with such musicians as trumpeter Tomasz Stańko, saxophonist Juhani Aaltonen, pianist Heikki Sarmanto, bassist Sirone, Teppo Hauta-Aho, Carlos Bica and Ed Schuller, guitarist Marc Ducret, composer Simon Stockhausen, singer Linda Sharrock and the Finnish musician Jimi Tenor.Musical projects
Kalima leads several of his own bands like the trio Klima Kalima is rooted in modern jazz and has recorded six albums, mostly with compositions by Kalima. The band received the 2008 New Mannheim Jazz Prize in Mannheim.Momentum Impakto was founded around 1998 in Berlin. The group occurs mostly in Germany and has recorded two albums, Haw Haw 1999 and Hyvä Bändi Livenä 2004. With the Soi Ensemble Kalima performs songs that he composed after texts by Essi Kalima. The singers included Johanna Iivanainen, Eeppi Ursin and Merzi Rajala. The debut album of the group was released in 2003.
The trio Jazz Parasites led by Kalima, comprises the bassist Ed Schuller and the drummer Ernst Bier in addition to Kalima. His latest band is K 18, a group that plays free improvisational music with acoustic and electric instruments.
Discography
Solo albums
- 2000: Hippycone, with Kalle Kalima Trio feat. Marc Ducret
- 2004: Kalle Kalima; Helsinki on My Mind, feat. Oliver Potratz and Olli Steidle
- 2007: Chasing Yellow, feat. Oliver Potratz and Olli Steidle
- 2009: Iris in Trance, with Kalle Kalima Pentasonic
- 2010: Loru, feat. Oliver Potratz and Olli Steidle
- 2013: Finn Noir, feat. Oliver Potratz and Olli Steidle
- 2016: High Noon, feat. Greg Cohen and Max Andrzejewski
- 2019: Flying Like Eagles, feat. Knut Reiersrud, Phil Donkin and Jim Black
- 2025: Voyager Blues, feat. Oliver Potratz and Olli Steidle
Collaborations
; With Monumentum Impakto- 1999: Haw Haw
- 2004: Hyvä Bändi Livenä
- 2000: Nuijamiehet
- 2002: Pehmeä
- 2006: Koiperhonen
- 2003: Johnny La Marama
- 2006: ...Fire!
- 2009: Bicycle Revolution
- 2014: Il Purgatorio
- 2004: Very Early
- 2004: A Chama do Sol
- 2005: UNKL
- 2005: Sagt Die Wahrheit
- 2008: Mama
- 2008: Guaranteed Niceness
- 2009: Some Kubricks of Blood
- 2012: Out To Lynch
- 2014: Buñel De Jour
- 2010: Stilleben
- 2024: Ilmonique
- 2013: Sex Gegen Essen
- 2013: And It Happened..., feat. Henrik Otto Donner
- 2013: Occupy The World, feat. Wadada Leo Smith
- 2015: Electric Willow
- 2015: Z-Country Paradise
- 2018: Live in Lisbon
- 2017: Where Is Wedding?
- 2017: ''Euphoria''