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Mikko Pettinen

Trumpet player, composer, singer, piano player

About Me

New MP4 cd FOLLOWER coming out in May 2007!!! Buy the new cd Follower now and you will get it by May 23th! Order it now using this link:

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How to get our music: Now you have the opportunity to buy all our releases from Record Shop X. Shipping within 24 hours, and they support Paypal and credit card payments. Postage only 2,50 worldwide! Check out 4 tunes from the cd! I will add some different songs someday. So stay tuned!
I live in Helsinki and have two lovely daughters and a wonderful wife. I play trumpet in UMO Jazz Orchestra and I´m the leader of my jazz group MP4. Other bands: Nat Newborn Big Time, Axl Smith & The Neotronics, Pettinen-Viinikainen Duo, Son Sabroson, Higher Ground.
Bio taken from Umo Jazz Orhestra website:
Mikko Pettinen is one of the coolest, young, urban jazzcomets at the moment. Graduated from the Sibelius Academy, he was rewarded in 2002 for the best solo act in the prestigious Getxo-contest in Spain, where his band, MP4, won the ”unofficial European Championship” (Jazz Getxo Live, Hilargi 2002). Their debut album, Central Playa (Impala) was released in 2004. Another personal credit is the 2nd prize in the Carmine Caruso International Jazz Trumpet Contest in Reno, 2001. Ever since, he has widened his range of expression in several assemblies (a.o. Son Sabroson, Electromagnetique) and due to his open-minded attitude, he has, among others, performed live with Jimi Tenor, and spent time in studio with Finnish top-class artists of various styles, such as Paleface, Axl Smith, Asa, HBTB, Redrama, Anssi Kela, Elastinen and Jonna. He is also a much requested artist in big bands. At the ”UMO level”, he has played in the ranks of the European Broadcasting Union Big Band (EBU). Pettinen’s latest takeover is Stevie Wonder’s music by a project called Wonderstuff. This time he appears exceptionally as a vocalist, with Sami Saari and Osmo Ikonen. MP4’s debut album, Central Playa (Impala), saw daylight in 2004 and it was nominated for the Finnish Jazz Record of the Year (the Jazz-Emma Award). It was also the Critics’ Choice for the Year in the leading jazz magazine, Jazzrytmit, in Finland. MP4´s new cd Follower (Jupiter/Texicalli) will be released on May 2007 and it will feature rapper Axl Smith as a special guest. Check out my band MP4`s website www.mp4band.com www.eclipsetrumpets.com www.umo.fi
MP4 featuring Axl Smith (rap) live clips & interview June 3rd 2006 at Club Somethin´Else, Jyväskylä Jazzbar:

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Music:

Member Since: 3/26/2007
Band Website: mp4band.com
Band Members: MP4:

Mikko Pettinen: trumpet, flugelhorn, effect trumpet, cabasa, vocals
Tuomo Prättälä: Rhodes piano, Moog and other analog synths, vocals
Ville Huolman: acoustic bass
Toni Porthén: drums

Pettinen-Viinikainen Duo:

Mikko Pettinen: trumpets, flugelhorn
Teemu Viinikainen: acoustic guitars

Axl Smith & The Neotronics:

Axl Smith: rap, vocals
Mikko Pettinen: trumpet, flugelhorn, effect trumpet, vocals, perc.
Tuomo Prättälä: keyboards, vocals
Vellu Salminen: electric bass
Toni Porthén: drums, vocals
Juho Hurskainen: tenor sax
Heikki Tuhkanen: trombone

UMO Jazz Orchestra: check out Umo website at www.umo.fi Mikko is an Eclipse Artist and plays Eclipse trumpets and flugelhorn!!!
Influences: Miles Davis, Stevie Wonder, John Coltrane, James Brown, Freddie Hubbard, Woody Shaw, Tim Hagans, Ingrid Jensen, Erik Truffaz, Billy Joel, Earth, Wind &Fire, Tonéx, Tower Of Power, Common, Tom Harrell, Kenny Wheeler, Dángelo, Elvis Costello, Burt Bacharach, Dave Douglas

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Sounds Like: good music
Record Label: Texicalli/Jupiter/Impala
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Picture of the new cd cover

There is a picture of the forthcoming cd "Follower" near the Myspace mp3 player and at the picture gallery. It is designed by my friend Lauri Hämäläinen, who also made the cover for our last cd Centra...
Posted by Mikko Pettinen on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 01:52:00 PST

New song "The Follower" added

I added a new song called The Follower. It features Axl Smith doing some ad lib rapping and me and Axl singing. It features wah wah trumpet (played with Electroharmonix Qtron plus -pedal). There is al...
Posted by Mikko Pettinen on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 01:45:00 PST

new mastered songs!

Hello!I added two mastered (final) versions of my band MP4´s forthcoming album FOLLOWER. 7 Months features now the analog synth tracks that there missing on the previous version.The other song is Heav...
Posted by Mikko Pettinen on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 01:44:00 PST

new song 7 Months added

I added a new song 7 Months that we mixed yesterday. It features Axl Smith on rap and Pepa Päivinen (barsax) and Pentti Lahti (asax) at the end solo section. Abdissa Assefa is on percussion. We will m...
Posted by Mikko Pettinen on Fri, 06 Apr 2007 02:00:00 PST