The Platypus Ensemble has been working together since 1997
when pianist Sid Hille assembled some of the best Finnish jazz musicians
to play his compositions:
Manuel Dunkel on saxophone,
Ape Anttila on bass and
Teppo Mäkynen on drums.
Five CD's have been published since:
Platypus (2000), Gestalt (2003), Satsang (2005),
Life@Play (2007, a live-cd including a documentary video of the band's tours),
and now, in summer 2008, the new 'Rite of Passage',
where PE is joined by the Proton String Quartet.
Listen to two tracks of the new album in the player above
(Pagan Dance and Vrindavan in Vindala).
The Third Field is a live recording of the extended Platypus Ensemble
into a bigband, the Sid Hille Jazz Orchestra.
It’s a premix version.
The final CD will be released in 2009 as SHJO’s first recording,
along with a documentary video about the incredible orchestra,
the members list of which reads like a Who-is-who in Finnish jazz today:
Viinikainen, Saarti, Pettinen, Rissanen (both Aki and Antti), Takanen, Jokelainen...
NEW in the player: Time Freeze is part three of a concerto Sid wrote for Manu as the soloist with a string orchestra. The picture shows Manu shaking hands with the late Mike Brecker. We met Mike on our Holland tour in 1998. Manu and Mike knew each other from before, when Mike had been a soloist with the UMO Jazz Orchestra, and the two of them played a memorable duel.
Here is a video of The Sid Hille Jazz Orchestra live in concert
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And here is a short version of the documentary video included in Life@Play, a film by the title of
'Sounds and Situations'
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