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1 A
2 Alla små djur slår rosett på sin svans
3 And She Appeared
4 Announcement
5 Attum einsemds berg
6 A Ballad About Something
7 Before Dawn
8 Blicken
9 Blues Chacarera
10 Closing Hymn
11 Concentracznyi
12 Country Living
13 Dammgömmor
14 Dance Floors
15 The Day of the Bear
16 Det er den draumen
17 Din veg
18 Dionysios
19 A Dreamed Freedom
20 Ebb & Flow
21 Ellin tunnelma
22 Fall of 1978
23 A Farmer's Dream
24 Foreign Mental Intruder
25 Forest Nocturne
26 Frau von Stroyanowsky
27 Future Apparent
28 Goddess Arsinoe
29 Hair, Scarf & Fragrance
30 The Hottest Cats (of Helsinki)
31 Human Impact
32 Hymn of the Immortals
33 I Lose Myself In Daydreams
34 The Ice That Breaks
35 Indian Restaurant
36 Irish Soundtrack
37 Jazz Mazurka
38 Kaféet
39 Kids' Song
40 Kindergarten
41 Landmark
42 Lullaby
43 Magneten
44 Mange års røynsle med pil og boge
45 Memories from Hometown
46 MikaSonik Theme
47 Mindset
48 Modern Rag
49 Mood 4:30 A.M.
50 Moominvalley
51 Movements in Style
52 Muminmammans visa
53 Mustat Ruusut
54 My Mother Turned Fifty
55 The Myth of the Old Man
56 New Halling
57 Nights' Flights' Spice
58 Northern Sunrise
59 Now Came to Us
60 Nu blir sommar
61 Old Couples Lullaby
62 Old Manhattan Tango
63 One Word
64 Party
65 Passacaglia
66 Passing Recline
67 A Portrait Of Three Statues
68 Psalm
69 Relax in the Sun
70 Retrospectives
71 Reverie
72 Romance
73 Run
74 Sanningi
75 Scattered Entirety
76 Screenplay
77 The Secret of the Castle
78 Seven Blues
79 Shape of Sea
80 Sideburns
81 Sleep
82 Snapshots
83 Sommarafton
84 Sov mina ungar
85 Stora äppelsången
86 Story of Old and New
87 Summer Garden
88 A Swedish Fairy-Tale
89 Tall & Worn
90 Thinking, Wondering, Dreaming
91 Til Bodil som sendte meg ei plate med Bach og Händel
92 Til Li Po
93 Tyrant Krinippos
94 Villerivallaresången
95 A Visit To Look Forward To
96 Walkup Blues
97 West 89th
98 When Things Will Change
99 Yeah, Man
100 Young in the 80s
101 Yver Hengjemyri

About 101 Compositions

This product is a 269-page PDF document, with four bonus songs.

One Hundred One compositions ranks as one of the most important musical statements to-date by Mika Pohjola, a Finnish-born New York jazz pianist who also writes classical music. In 2009, Pohjola was cited as one "influential pianist since 1990" by Jazz, a 700-page book on jazz history, authored by Gary Giddins and Scott DeVeaux.

Pohjola has recorded a majority of his compositions with his own ensembles, featuring his contemporaries on the jazz scene, saxophonists Miguel Zenon, Steve Wilson and Chris Cheek, bassists Fernando Huergo and Matt Penman, guitarists Mick Goodrick and Ben Monder, and drummers Mark Ferber and Roberto Dani. He has also worked with vocalists Rigmor Gustafsson and Johanna Grüssner.

Mika Pohjola was born in Helsinki, Finland, and studied in Stockholm, Sweden before migrating to the United States at the age of twenty. At Berklee he studied with Gary Burton and Herb Pomeroy. Apart from his concert and recording activities, Pohjola has been a frequent clinician at conservatories. Pohjola is a Steinway Distinguished Artist since 1997, and a major visiting artist at Berklee College of Music since 2006.

One Hundred One compositions convey both the depth and versatility of Pohjola's pen. The stylistic references range from Renaissance music to serialism, from Bebop to Rock, and beyond. However, personal integrity is the first ingredient which profiles this large work. Released for the first time in the form of sheet music, One Hundred One compositions shares a valuable insight to Pohjola's introspective and thoughtful sound as a writer as well as an improviser.

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One Hundred One compositions ranks as one of the most important musical statements to-date by Mika Pohjola, a Finnish-born New York jazz pianist who also writes classical music. In 2009, Pohjola was cited as one "influential pianist since 1990" by Jazz, a 700-page book on jazz... Read