Posts Tagged: Jazz

New trio album coming!

I just returned from Helsinki where I was mixing Joona Toivanen trio‘s new album. This is a band both me, Tapani and the drummer Olavi Louhivuori have played had since we were kids. Olavi had just finished a long US tour with Polish trumpet legend Tomasz Stanko’s quintet, and it was great to meet with… Read more »

Jazz & Fly Fishing…

What is jazz and what is fly fishing? Some of you who read and watch this blog might be fishing maniacs, musicians or maybe both. But I guess that many of you just discovered a site where four idiots are doing weird stuff and now you’re checking us out every now and then!? I will… Read more »

The Tight Lines Quartet Is Dead – Long Live Jazz & Fly Fishing!

When we were in Gothenburg recording our new album, we had a vote and the result was unanimous: The band is no longer called Tight Lines Quartet, but simply Jazz & Fly Fishing. Nobody was using the other name anyway – everyone just called us Jazz & Fly Fishing (we even did ourselves). Jazz &… Read more »

The Silver Rush

Here’s my answer to Håvard’s video gear madness. Chaplin didn’t have the super colors and stereo mics, we don’t need them either. But the music! Duke Ellington and his orchestra played jazz when jazz was young and the fish were big. And Fredrik’s monster trout is finally revealed here!

Video Gear Madness

The following e-mails were exchanged between Joona and me today: —————————————————————————- Subject: Videogear! Sent: Tue, 20 April, 2010 17:17:52 From: Håvard Stubø To: Joona Toivanen, Tapani Toivanen, Fredrik Hamrå I have now ordered the following gear: – Portable travel harddisk – La Cie rugged 500 GB (Petzi style) – Canon Wideangle lens (screws on to… Read more »

Håvard vs the Volcano

Tomorrow, I was supposed to go on tour in Russia and the Ukraine with my own band, the Håvard Stubø Quartet, but now it seems like it´s all gonna be canceled. God damn it. The reason is of course the volcano Eyjafjallajökull on Iceland, which is currently spewing out an enormous cloud of ashes all… Read more »

Fredrik's singing lesson #1

Fredrik, the supertalented genius of the band, is not only a great drummer and flyfisherman, but also one of the best chefs I know, a real athlete, painter, photographer, author, and last but not least, singer. Here he shows something not many people can do: sing the lowest C-note that is on the piano. Simply… Read more »

Easter Rise

Hi everyone! This little video is from my first day of fly fishing up north this year. Lots of ice and not too much fish, but it still felt fabulous to be out and about, fencing with the fly rod! Easter Rise from Jazz and Fly Fishing´s Jazzcam on Vimeo.

JFF lifestyle, part II

Here’s a glimpse of one of the fishing trips me and Fredrik did last week. It was the first week of the sea trout season and despite mostly cold and windy weather we had some nice moments of sunshine. I also got a chance to test my new JFF-camera: it’s a GoPro HD Hero videocamera… Read more »