Kalle Kalima


Kalle Kalima is a Finnish jazz guitarist and improvisational musician.

Biography

Kalima got piano lessons as a child before switching to the guitar. 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.
Kalima lives and works in his adopted home of Berlin.

Musical projects

Kalima leads several of his own bands like the trio Klima Kalima is rooted in modern jazz and has recorded three albums, mostly with compositions by Kalima. The band received the 2008 New Mannheim Jazz Prize in Mannheim.
Momentum Impakto was written around 1998 in Berlin. The group occurs mostly in Germany and has recorded two albums. 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

; With Monumentum Impakto
; With Nuijamiehet
; With Soi
; With Johnny La Marama
; With Jazz Parasites
; With Bica, Klammer, Kalima
; With UNKL
; With Baby Bonk
; with Sonar Kollektiv Orchester
; With Kalle Kalima & K-18
; With Kari Heinilä
; With Kuu!
; With TUMO
; With Tenors of Kalma
; With Z-Country Paradise
; With Matthias Bröde's Oh!KesterOsloer3
; With Oliwood